{"id":13577,"date":"2021-09-24T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13577"},"modified":"2021-09-23T21:07:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T02:07:24","slug":"third-loop-at-i-80-380-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/third-loop-at-i-80-380-going-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Third loop at I-80\/380 going away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/statelines\/Exit239A_218sb_wb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"155\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>March 12, 2007:<\/strong> When IA 27 was created, signs on I-80 were retrofitted with mini-shields to save space. It&#8217;s this exit that will be going away next week. The Tiffin exit will serve as the turnaround.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first loop ramp to go at the I-80\/I-380 interchange was the most important one, eastbound 80 to northbound 380. The second was northbound US 218 to westbound 80.<\/p>\n<p>Monday night, a third loop is being closed permanently: <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/i80-i380\/I-80-Westbound-to-US2180-SB-Ramp-Closure.pdf\">westbound 80 to southbound 218<\/a>. Both it and the previous loop closure will require going past the interchange to the next exit (Forevergreen Road and the Tiffin exit, respectively) and turning around.<\/p>\n<p>Both exit movements will not be restored until the end of the 2023 construction season, a full two years-plus from now.<\/p>\n<p>The only loop remaining after next week is southbound 380 to eastbound 80.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday morning, the &#8220;exit point&#8221; from westbound 80 to northbound 380 will be moved \u00bc mile east, closer to the Coral Ridge onramp and approximately at 80&#8217;s bridge over US 6 and the railroad based on <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/i80-i380\/I-80-Westbound-to-US2180-SB-Ramp-Closure.pdf\">the DOT&#8217;s explanatory map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 12, 2007: When IA 27 was created, signs on I-80 were retrofitted with mini-shields to save space. It&#8217;s this exit that will be going away next week. The Tiffin exit will serve as the turnaround. The first loop ramp &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/third-loop-at-i-80-380-going-away\/\">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-13577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577","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=13577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13578,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13577\/revisions\/13578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}