{"id":15748,"date":"2024-11-20T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15748"},"modified":"2024-11-19T23:40:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T05:40:25","slug":"ottumwa-business-63-reconstruction-modifies-quasi-interchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/ottumwa-business-63-reconstruction-modifies-quasi-interchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottumwa Business 63 reconstruction modifies quasi-interchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/2016\/0413\/Old23_63_nb.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"327\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>April 13, 2016:<\/strong> This view of the connection from Second Street to IA 149 shows a two-ramp set. The ramp from 149 to Second, where the bicyclist is, would be removed under a proposed plan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the Iowa DOT&#8217;s information site is an upcoming project that focuses on IA 149\/Business US 63, formerly US 63, in downtown Ottumwa just north of the viaduct. The plans were put out last month.<\/p>\n<p>This section of highway was built in the 1950s. Heading north from downtown, there was a mini-median, not full width, but grass-covered until a few decades ago. At the time of original construction, f<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/iaold23.html\">ormer \u00a0IA 23 ran north from downtown<\/a> but did not have a direct connection. An offramp from southbound 63 to northbound 23 was built, as was a ramp from both one-way directions of IA 23 (Main and Second) via Kitterman Avenue (see above).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2024\/11\/tell-us-what-you-think-about-the-proposed-reconstruction-of-iowa-149-from-the-des-moines-river-bridg.html\">The proposal (PDFs here)<\/a> eliminates the off-ramp from 149 down to Second Street. My guess is that that connection would be considered covered by the stoplight at Fourth Street since there is a connection between Fourth and Second just to the east. The next intersection, Fifth Street, is where 149 angles northwest. A driver could turn &#8220;right&#8221;, which was actually straight ahead, onto Wapello Street, although Google Street View from this year shows that may be closed now. There would be a new intersection with Fifth (to the west) and Wapello (to the north) that, based on the lack of left-turn lanes in the diagram, may be a right-in-right-out scenario in which no traffic can turn left. Also, the proposal diagram shows Fifth as a two-way street, which it currently is not.<\/p>\n<p>(Sorry for the lack of posts. I&#8217;m currently deep into a research project and also recovering from the election.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 13, 2016: This view of the connection from Second Street to IA 149 shows a two-ramp set. The ramp from 149 to Second, where the bicyclist is, would be removed under a proposed plan. On the Iowa DOT&#8217;s information &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/ottumwa-business-63-reconstruction-modifies-quasi-interchange\/\">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-15748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748","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=15748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15749,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions\/15749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}