{"id":12947,"date":"2021-04-14T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12947"},"modified":"2021-04-12T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T22:06:17","slug":"us-20-concrete-in-waterloo-getting-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/us-20-concrete-in-waterloo-getting-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"US 20 concrete in Waterloo getting replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa DOT has announced that starting tomorrow, US 20 between the US 63 and IA 21 exits will move to head-to-head traffic to remove and replace the pavement in the eastbound lanes.\u00a0<em>(Is it Infrastructure Week here? \u2014 Ed.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2021\/04\/ramp-closures-and-head-to-head-traffic-on-us-20-from-us-63-to-iowa-21-in-waterloo-beginning-thursday.html\">The press release states<\/a> that this phase will last until July, and then I presume the same will happen to the westbound lanes. The first concrete here was laid in 1984, but not signed as part of 20 until 1986. I don&#8217;t know if there has been a complete replacement in between.<\/p>\n<p>There will not be temporary connections from the ramps, judging by the release. Instead, all ramps on\/off eastbound 20 will be closed at 63, 21, and Ansborough Avenue. Official detours will come later. I think that the best connection between 63 and the Crossroads Mall area would be to cut across D52 or D35 to 21. (To head to Dubuque, 21 to Shaulis Road \u2014 there&#8217;s a stoplight there now \u2014 to 218 near the casino.)<\/p>\n<p>I think this project will preclude a photo refresh of those interchanges this year. I know the Waterloo area could use one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa DOT has announced that starting tomorrow, US 20 between the US 63 and IA 21 exits will move to head-to-head traffic to remove and replace the pavement in the eastbound lanes.\u00a0(Is it Infrastructure Week here? \u2014 Ed.) The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/us-20-concrete-in-waterloo-getting-replaced\/\">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-12947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947","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=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12951,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions\/12951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}