{"id":15736,"date":"2024-11-05T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15736"},"modified":"2024-11-04T23:22:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T05:22:42","slug":"r70-exit-open-between-ames-and-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/r70-exit-open-between-ames-and-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"R70 exit open between Ames and Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US 30 exit at County Road R70 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2024\/10\/new-interchange-on-us-30-at-580th-avenuestory-county-road-r-70teller-avenue-between-ames-and-nevada-.html\">opened Oct. 14<\/a>, according to a press release from the DOT. The overpass bridge was built right next to the intersection, so there&#8217;s going to be a slight bend in R70 from here on out. This exit is just east of the I-35\/US 30 interchange.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, the BGSs include the rural street name, 580th Avenue, and <em>not<\/em> the town reached by R70, Cambridge. This was the exact wrong approach.<\/p>\n<p>This exit is part of the plan to convert 30 between Ames and Nevada into a full freeway. Just to the west, construction to add an extra lane between I-35 and Dayton Avenue will start next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US 30 exit at County Road R70 opened Oct. 14, according to a press release from the DOT. The overpass bridge was built right next to the intersection, so there&#8217;s going to be a slight bend in R70 from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/r70-exit-open-between-ames-and-nevada\/\">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-15736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736","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=15736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15737,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions\/15737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}