{"id":13151,"date":"2021-06-04T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13151"},"modified":"2021-08-06T00:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T05:36:22","slug":"four-lane-us-30-in-tama-county-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/four-lane-us-30-in-tama-county-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-lane US 30 in Tama County open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2011\/05\/proposed-alternatives-for-us-30-from-tama-bypass-to-the-benton-county-line-.html\">Ten years and nine days<\/a> after what I think is the first announcement about it, the new four-lane US 30 in Tama County from Tama to near IA 21 opened <del>Thursday<\/del>\u00a0Wednesday*. (Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tamatoledonews.com\/news\/local-news\/2021\/06\/03\/highway-30-expansion-opens-in-tama-county\/\"><em>Tama-Toledo News Chronicle<\/em><\/a>) This is a complete shift off the existing road, which will be torn up over the rest of the summer. The little &#8220;hiccup&#8221; along the straight line made decades ago for a bridge just west of 21 has temporarily become where new meets old.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping for a press release or something beforehand, so I&#8217;ll have to come up with in-depth content after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 map isn&#8217;t two weeks old and already needs a change. I wonder if they&#8217;ll put it in any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>* UPDATE 8\/6\/21: To harmonize with a note on the Iowa Highways Page, I&#8217;ve modified the opening to one day earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years and nine days after what I think is the first announcement about it, the new four-lane US 30 in Tama County from Tama to near IA 21 opened Thursday\u00a0Wednesday*. (Story: Tama-Toledo News Chronicle) This is a complete shift &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/four-lane-us-30-in-tama-county-open\/\">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":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151","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=13151"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13417,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13151\/revisions\/13417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}