{"id":3120,"date":"2013-03-20T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2013-03-20T11:05:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:05:43","slug":"us-61-in-louisa-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/us-61-in-louisa-county\/","title":{"rendered":"US 61 in Louisa County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/Oct06\/13\/61_92_252_sb.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 13, 2006:\u00a0<\/strong>This intersection could have a whole new look by the end of the decade. A proposed interchange will be off to the right (west).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re only talking about four miles, but it&#8217;s another step in the last remaining non-four-lane stretch of US 61. However, even this little segment will take four years to complete.<\/p>\n<p>The current design includes interchanges at the road by Lo-Ma High School (good for safety) and IA 92\/old IA 252 (good for turning patterns). The four-lane weaves around the existing two-lane. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/031413US61PD2.pdf\">This map shows it best (PDF).<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2013\/02\/us-61-in-louisa-county-from-130th-street-north-to-the-existing-four-lane-roadway-at-the-muscatine-co.html\">More maps are on the DOT&#8217;s site.<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/qctimes.com\/news\/local\/dot-plans-to-turn-u-s-into-four-lane-highway\/article_164a94e0-8e7b-11e2-a9ed-0019bb2963f4.html?comment_form=true\">The <em>Quad-City Times<\/em> gets some resident feedback.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 13, 2006:\u00a0This intersection could have a whole new look by the end of the decade. A proposed interchange will be off to the right (west). We&#8217;re only talking about four miles, but it&#8217;s another step in the last remaining &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/us-61-in-louisa-county\/\">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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120","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=3120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3120\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}