{"id":14053,"date":"2022-04-25T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14053"},"modified":"2022-04-21T22:35:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T03:35:21","slug":"floyd-intersection-gets-stoplights-for-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/floyd-intersection-gets-stoplights-for-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd intersection gets stoplights for construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14054\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/218_18_sblgs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/218_18_sblgs.jpg 580w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/218_18_sblgs-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>August 5, 2017:<\/strong> This intersection of southbound US 218 at the US 18\/IA 27 four-lane in Floyd is being turned into an interchange.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Avenue of the Saints is getting another stoplight, but it&#8217;s only going to be around for a couple years.<\/p>\n<p>Construction season is starting \u2014 though, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kimt.com\/news\/traffic-pattern-changes-at-floyd-interchange-take-effect-this-week\/article_51cabe78-bfae-11ec-b3c1-57497a78829b.html\">as this KIMT story says<\/a>, it hasn&#8217;t been feeling like it weather-wise. There is an immediate start to work on a new US 18\/218 interchange at Floyd, where 218 leaves the Avenue of the Saints. Eastbound traffic will be moved to head-to-head in the westbound lanes for construction of a bridge. The other bridge will be built next year, according to the story, although it might be contracted in the next two months because the 2022-26 five-year plan crams everything into FY22 spending. For now, a stoplight will be set up at the 18\/218 intersection.<\/p>\n<p>IA 19 was paved between Nora Springs and Charles City in 1922, but it was not until a decade later that the diagonal bypassing downtown Floyd was built. Slightly similarly, perhaps, this interchange has been under discussion for a DECADE.<\/p>\n<p>When the interchange is finished, multiple nearby intersections will be closed off, including at Liberty Street and Packard Avenue, which US 18 used to go in\/out of Floyd before 1932. In addition, since the US 30 interchange is now complete, US 218&#8217;s only at-grade intersection with a US route for its entire length will be its south end at US 136 in Keokuk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 5, 2017: This intersection of southbound US 218 at the US 18\/IA 27 four-lane in Floyd is being turned into an interchange. The Avenue of the Saints is getting another stoplight, but it&#8217;s only going to be around for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/floyd-intersection-gets-stoplights-for-construction\/\">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-14053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053","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=14053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14055,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053\/revisions\/14055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}