{"id":16318,"date":"2026-06-15T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16318"},"modified":"2026-06-14T00:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T05:07:23","slug":"dot-turning-huxley-intersection-into-roundabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/dot-turning-huxley-intersection-into-roundabout\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT turning Huxley intersection into roundabout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa DOT intends to convert the four-way stop of highways 69 and 210 south of Huxley into a roundabout in 2028. The <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/news\/2026-06-12\/tell-us-what-you-think-about-proposed-roundabout-intersection-us-69-and-iowa-210-story-county\">informational meeting is scheduled for Thursday<\/a> evening at Huxley City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>This intersection is a mile and a half west of the only exit on I-35 between Elkhart and Ames. The IA 210 bridge was replaced while the interstate is being six-laned underneath. It would have been interesting if, in conjunction with either project, 210 between 69 and I-35 was also made four lanes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amesalliance.com\/upcoming-event\/ribbon-cutting-mcdonalds-huxley\/\">Huxley got its first fast-food place, a McDonald&#8217;s<\/a>, last month. The 69\/210 intersection is only going to grow in traffic count as Huxley grows. That makes a four-way stop woefully underpowered. I would argue, though, this is close enough to Huxley that a stoplight would be justified and not entirely in a &#8220;rural&#8221; area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa DOT intends to convert the four-way stop of highways 69 and 210 south of Huxley into a roundabout in 2028. The informational meeting is scheduled for Thursday evening at Huxley City Hall. This intersection is a mile and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/dot-turning-huxley-intersection-into-roundabout\/\">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-16318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318","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=16318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16320,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16318\/revisions\/16320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}