{"id":14098,"date":"2022-05-16T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14098"},"modified":"2022-05-15T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T21:58:08","slug":"us-63-closure-scrambles-routes-to-traer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/us-63-closure-scrambles-routes-to-traer\/","title":{"rendered":"US 63 closure scrambles routes to Traer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting next week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2022\/05\/us-63-from-iowa-96-to-traer-to-close-may-23-for-resurfacing-.html\">according to a DOT press release<\/a>, US 63 will be closed between IA 8 and IA 96. It&#8217;s for a (very needed) asphalt resurfacing project and <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/the-ghost-of-the-traer-sale-barn\/\">discussed more in this blog post<\/a>. Toledo-Gladbrook traffic is fine, but Traer-Gladbrook will be complicated.<\/p>\n<p>The official detour for 63 starts at the Garwin corner and uses E29, V18, and IA 8. BUT! The west half of IA 8 itself is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2022\/04\/iowa-8-just-east-of-iowa-21-to-close-may-2-for-culvert-replacement-.html\">officially detoured away from there<\/a>, via IA 21, D65, and US 63, for at least two months. (Only about a 1-mile segment is totally off limits.)<\/p>\n<p>So, technically if clumsily, northbound 63 will be coming into Traer from the west, while westbound 8 will be coming into Traer from the north. It&#8217;s kind of reminiscent of the Depression-era detour maps issued while so many roads in Iowa were being paved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting next week, according to a DOT press release, US 63 will be closed between IA 8 and IA 96. It&#8217;s for a (very needed) asphalt resurfacing project and discussed more in this blog post. Toledo-Gladbrook traffic is fine, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/us-63-closure-scrambles-routes-to-traer\/\">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-14098","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\/14098","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=14098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14099,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions\/14099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}