{"id":16181,"date":"2026-01-29T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16181"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:29:27","slug":"curve-change-planned-for-f48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/curve-change-planned-for-f48\/","title":{"rendered":"Curve change planned for F48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A county road project this year ties into Iowa highway history in Jasper County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtondailynews.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/28\/supervisors-approve-additional-design-work-for-third-phase-of-f-48-resurfacing\/\">The <em>Newton News<\/em> reports<\/a> that the &#8220;third phase&#8221; of a project on County Road F48 west of Colfax includes widening the curve at 124th Street. The curve will get a larger turning radius. This road was part of US 6 until 1980. The curve here was already widened once, during a repavement in the 1950s that replaced the original concrete from the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the county&#8217;s work on F48 in recent years has been to update the road as it was received from the state when US 6 was turned over between Newton and Altoona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A county road project this year ties into Iowa highway history in Jasper County. The Newton News reports that the &#8220;third phase&#8221; of a project on County Road F48 west of Colfax includes widening the curve at 124th Street. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/curve-change-planned-for-f48\/\">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-16181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16181","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=16181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16182,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16181\/revisions\/16182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}