{"id":14554,"date":"2022-12-07T10:24:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14554"},"modified":"2022-12-09T13:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:35:54","slug":"realigned-ia-17-celebration-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/realigned-ia-17-celebration-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Realigned IA 17 ‘celebration’ today"},"content":{"rendered":"

On extremely short notice<\/a>, for a project that went past the original expected completion date<\/a>, there’s going to be a party for new IA 17 east of Boone. A “celebration” of the opening of the overpass is today at 3 PM at Cobblestone Hotel and Suites in Boone, according to a DOT news release.<\/p>\n

It has been seven years, three months, and three weeks since a meeting in Boone<\/a> kicked off the process to figure out what to do with IA 17 in the area of the Lincoln Highway and Union Pacific Railroad. The design chosen in 2019<\/a>, from three proposals in 2016<\/a>, has 17 head north with an overpass over both E41 and the railroad, then turn east at 200th Street, with 200th improved west to Boone.<\/p>\n

As noted in previous posts<\/a>, the opening of new 17 eliminates the option to take the signed 1913 Lincoln Highway route on 205th Street, because the crossing at R Avenue will be closed, as will the crossings at Quartz Avenue and S Avenue (under the overpass). The route along E41 and now-former 17 will have to be used to get to Jordan. Research since my 2019 blog post points to 205th being part of the Ames-Boone route until paving opened in the summer of 1930. The blueprint for an overpass of the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern interurban in January 1930, just east of R Avenue, says “Proposed Highway.”<\/p>\n

I was hoping to travel the new 17 in October and didn’t think about taking a farewell detour on 205th. Whoops.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Ames Tribune<\/em> says it’s not open yet<\/a>, will be “a few weeks.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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