{"id":14542,"date":"2022-12-05T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14542"},"modified":"2022-12-02T22:24:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T04:24:45","slug":"us-63-meeting-involves-significant-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/us-63-meeting-involves-significant-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"US 63 meeting involves significant proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2022\/11\/proposed-improvements-to-us-63-to-be-discussed-in-tama-on-december-6-2022.html\">there will be a meeting in Tama<\/a> to go over proposed improvements to US 63 from US 6 to Tama. That is one portion of a larger package of changes from US 6 to Hudson. There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/US-63-PEL-Vision-Document-FINAL.pdf\">VERY LARGE PDF<\/a> containing detailed maps of climbing\/passing lanes and changes to turn lanes along that 50-mile stretch. This is the continuation of <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/us-63-study-online-meeting\/\">work I mentioned in March 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the proposal, 63 from E64 to E69 in southern Tama County would be nearly all three lanes, but not the same three lanes: Each direction would have two separate climbing lanes, broken up only by a bridge and culvert.<\/p>\n<p>The entire segment was originally paved in 1930 and all of it has had a thorough rebuild at least once (<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/the-ghost-of-the-traer-sale-barn\/\">see this February blog post<\/a>). This project will put a new layer of asphalt on the road in Poweshiek County and a new layer of concrete on the road in Tama County.<\/p>\n<p>Under the current five-year plan, the segment from 6 to Tama is programmed for FY 2024 (the second half of next year); Toledo to E29 in 2025; and Traer to Hudson in 2027. This means the segment from E29 to Traer isn&#8217;t in yet, but my guess would be 2029. A detour for the south segment will use US 30, IA 146, and US 6.<\/p>\n<p>Upgrading 63 to a Super 2 is the preferred option over a four-lane road, which would be an awkward situation given the 7-mile east-west segment. That provides me an extremely flimsy hook to something I did long ago*: <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/402exitlist\/402exitlist.html\">A fictional exit list<\/a> for a superhighway that never existed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurumi.com\/roads\/signmaker\/signmaker.html\">created with something<\/a> that&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/8q8n3k\/a-brief-history-of-the-java-applet\">blocked on\u00a0browsers for years<\/a>. There was a superhighway proposed between Waterloo and Ottumwa in the late 1950s, but only a two-lane segment north of IA 8 was ever built. That became <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia402.html\">part of IA 21 instead, <\/a>and I will note that a sign replacement project fixed one of the issues I mentioned in 2007.<\/p>\n<h4>*I learned about the IA 402 project 45 years after it was proposed, and it is now 65 years since being proposed. <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-ghost-of-ia-402\/\">Its ghost haunts us to this day.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night, there will be a meeting in Tama to go over proposed improvements to US 63 from US 6 to Tama. That is one portion of a larger package of changes from US 6 to Hudson. There is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/us-63-meeting-involves-significant-proposals\/\">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-14542","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\/14542","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=14542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14543,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14542\/revisions\/14543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}