{"id":16245,"date":"2026-04-07T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16245"},"modified":"2026-04-06T22:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:44:47","slug":"toledo-roundabout-construction-starts-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/toledo-roundabout-construction-starts-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Toledo roundabout construction starts this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/12\/toledo-getting-a-roundabout\/\">We knew it was coming,<\/a> and now it&#8217;s here. Construction on the first roundabout in Tama County starts this week. It&#8217;s at the intersection of US 63 and Business 30 in Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 1A, <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/news\/2026-04-02\/us-63-and-business-us-30-roundabout-construction-toledo-begins-april-6\">according to the DOT&#8217;s press release<\/a>, involves closing US 63 between the west Casey&#8217;s entrance and Business 30. This is the first stage because it includes building a culvert. Traffic for both directions of 63 will be detoured onto Business 30, Broadway Street, and 2nd Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>There are six stages\/substages, according to the June 2025 letting for the project. There will also be portions of construction that will close Business 30.<\/p>\n<p>(I am just now noticing that the letting document misspells the sign &#8220;Turning taffic ahead&#8221; planned for Broadway Street. We&#8217;ll see if that happens in the field!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew it was coming, and now it&#8217;s here. Construction on the first roundabout in Tama County starts this week. It&#8217;s at the intersection of US 63 and Business 30 in Toledo. Stage 1A, according to the DOT&#8217;s press release, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/04\/toledo-roundabout-construction-starts-this-week\/\">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":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245","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=16245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16246,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16245\/revisions\/16246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}