{"id":2741,"date":"2012-12-14T11:51:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T17:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2012-12-14T11:51:26","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T17:51:26","slug":"iowa-maps-switching-to-two-year-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/iowa-maps-switching-to-two-year-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa maps switching to two-year schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/iowa\/iowa-to-print-road-maps-every-other-year-in\/article_cdda47b0-16ce-59ef-b805-969df55a53b3.html?comment_form=true\">Sioux City Journal<\/a>\u00a0says it will start in fiscal 2015, so the first likely will be 2015-16.<\/p>\n<p>I am currently neutral on this change. Iowa is not on a torrid construction pace at the moment, so there will be fewer yearly changes. (This is different from Missouri, which <em>is<\/em> building a lot of new four-lanes and is just finishing a <em>three-year<\/em> 2010-12 map.) I don&#8217;t particularly like it, but I can understand it. If fewer maps are being picked up at the rest stops, it&#8217;s obvious to adjust accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>The paper map still needs to exist. GPS devices are much harder to get &#8220;the big picture&#8221; on, not to mention reliance on batteries\/electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Sioux City Journal\u00a0says it will start in fiscal 2015, so the first likely will be 2015-16. I am currently neutral on this change. Iowa is not on a torrid construction pace at the moment, so there will be fewer yearly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/iowa-maps-switching-to-two-year-schedule\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}