{"id":15972,"date":"2025-08-13T08:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15972"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:47:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:47:39","slug":"breakdown-of-2026-30-highway-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/breakdown-of-2026-30-highway-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakdown of 2026-30 highway plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s moderately confusing to have the Iowa DOT release its five-year programs on the fiscal year, but that&#8217;s been the case since it formed in 1975. That means that the contracts for 2026 started July 1. I waited until the new state map was released to do <a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/a-breakdown-of-2026-30-iowa-highway\">my writeup of the 2026-30 plan<\/a>. Come for the roadgeekery, stay for the fontgeekery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/betweentworivers.substack.com\/p\/a-breakdown-of-2026-30-iowa-highway\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15973\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_roadplan26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_roadplan26.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_roadplan26-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/substack_roadplan26-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s moderately confusing to have the Iowa DOT release its five-year programs on the fiscal year, but that&#8217;s been the case since it formed in 1975. That means that the contracts for 2026 started July 1. I waited until the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/08\/breakdown-of-2026-30-highway-plan\/\">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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972","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=15972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16001,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15972\/revisions\/16001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}