{"id":16279,"date":"2026-05-08T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16279"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:28:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:28:43","slug":"us-34-construction-creates-long-official-detour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/us-34-construction-creates-long-official-detour\/","title":{"rendered":"US 34 construction creates long official detour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officially, US 34 between Chariton and Albia has been closed to thru traffic since April 27 for a concrete overlay. <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/news\/2026-04-17\/road-closure-us-34-west-iowa-5-albia-begins-april-27\">The construction is from Albia west to near the Melrose corner.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The detour runs up IA 14 to Knoxville, then down IA 5 to Albia. The only paved cutoff that would shave time off that is G76 in southern Marion County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officially, US 34 between Chariton and Albia has been closed to thru traffic since April 27 for a concrete overlay. The construction is from Albia west to near the Melrose corner. The detour runs up IA 14 to Knoxville, then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/05\/us-34-construction-creates-long-official-detour\/\">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-16279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279","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=16279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16280,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16279\/revisions\/16280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}