{"id":15591,"date":"2024-07-08T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15591"},"modified":"2024-07-04T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T05:09:41","slug":"interstate-11-extended-through-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/interstate-11-extended-through-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstate 11 extended through Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NJC_SggsDGo?si=s6zFWbt3af4Fdf2C\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t an Iowa story, obviously, but it&#8217;s important for the interstate system as a whole. The Nevada DOT is replacing Interstate 515, which ran southeast from Las Vegas toward the Hoover Dam area, with Interstate 11. The I-11 designation starts at the Arizona-Nevada border with the bridge that was built to bypass Hoover Dam and for a while has ended at the I-215\/I-515 interchange. Now it will go through to the northwest end of the Las Vegas sprawl.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, future plans would take I-11 up the US 95 corridor somehow, past a WHOLE LOT of nothing, to the Reno area. The news story says the Nevada DOT says &#8220;Canada to Mexico&#8221; but getting to Reno alone is a pipe dream.\u00a0Did you know there are only three highways, <em>total<\/em>, that cross between Nevada and Oregon?<\/p>\n<p>(Notice that the Las Vegas newscasters use the &#8220;the&#8221; terminology for freeways one typically experiences only in the Los Angeles area.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t an Iowa story, obviously, but it&#8217;s important for the interstate system as a whole. The Nevada DOT is replacing Interstate 515, which ran southeast from Las Vegas toward the Hoover Dam area, with Interstate 11. The I-11 designation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/interstate-11-extended-through-las-vegas\/\">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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591","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=15591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15592,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15591\/revisions\/15592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}