{"id":12610,"date":"2020-12-22T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12610"},"modified":"2020-12-21T23:57:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:57:42","slug":"key-ramp-at-i-80380-opens-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/key-ramp-at-i-80380-opens-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Key ramp at I-80\/380 opens this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/statelines\/Exit239B_380nb_eb.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"180\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>March 12, 2007:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/statelines\/i380.html\">Eastbound I-80 at I-380.<\/a> I probably have a better picture of this, but archive searching isn&#8217;t what it used to be for me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The most important inner loop ramp of the I-80\/380 cloverleaf interchange is being replaced with a flyover ramp this week, according to a press release from the Iowa DOT (story\/reprint: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/government\/iowa-department-transportation-interstate-380-80-flyover-20201221\"><em>Gazette<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2020\/12\/20\/changes-to-i-80i-380-interchange-this-week\/\">KCRG<\/a>). The shift should be done by Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The flyover ramp is the Des Moines-to-Cedar-Rapids connection, and has been a bottleneck for a while. The ramp from eastbound 80 to southbound US 218, which needed to move outward a bit for this ramp to open, has been in use for a little while.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the flyover&#8217;s opening, two inner loops will be closed permanently: The EB-NB loop it&#8217;s replacing and also northbound 218 to westbound 80 underneath. To go from, say, the Melrose Avenue exit toward Des Moines, a traveler will need to go up to the Forevergreen Road exit and turn around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 12, 2007:\u00a0Eastbound I-80 at I-380. I probably have a better picture of this, but archive searching isn&#8217;t what it used to be for me. The most important inner loop ramp of the I-80\/380 cloverleaf interchange is being replaced with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/key-ramp-at-i-80380-opens-this-week\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12611,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12610\/revisions\/12611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}