{"id":16345,"date":"2026-07-13T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=16345"},"modified":"2026-07-10T23:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T04:24:09","slug":"new-janesville-exit-enters-stage-2-of-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/new-janesville-exit-enters-stage-2-of-7\/","title":{"rendered":"New Janesville exit enters stage 2 of 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Old218atEaston.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>September 28, 2025:<\/strong> Traffic moves on southbound US 218 at the intersection of 260th Street, with Easton Avenue behind the camera. On Monday, traffic switches to head-to-head in the existing northbound lanes (foreground). The position of this picture, once construction is done, will be just east of the east edge of a roundabout for 260th and the new northbound 218&#8217;s on\/off ramps.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, US 218 traffic between Janesville and Waverly becomes <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/news\/2026-07-09\/traffic-pattern-change-us-218-between-janesville-and-waverly-begins-july-13\">head-to-head in the existing northbound lanes<\/a>. This is to add paving connections for the future full traffic shift onto a new roadbed for the interchange north of Janesville.<\/p>\n<p>Although this is only officially stage 2 of 7, this is a major advancement. Step 1 was closure of the east-west road and grading\/paving every component of the new interchange that could be done without interfering with traffic on the present four-lane. Step 3 involves moving traffic to head-to-head in the new southbound lanes, over the bridge in the photo, while the east side of the interchange is built. That includes converting part of present northbound 218 into a frontage road, although the part seen above will be removed as the frontage road will bend to make room for a roundabout.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BlackHawkBremerCo#!BlackHawkBremerCo\">Iowa DOT&#8217;s Bremer\/Black Hawk County Facebook page<\/a> has some aerial (probably drone) views of the interchange construction, but I can only see about one or two because I refuse to create a Facebook account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 28, 2025: Traffic moves on southbound US 218 at the intersection of 260th Street, with Easton Avenue behind the camera. On Monday, traffic switches to head-to-head in the existing northbound lanes (foreground). The position of this picture, once construction &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/new-janesville-exit-enters-stage-2-of-7\/\">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-16345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345","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=16345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16348,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345\/revisions\/16348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}