{"id":4112,"date":"2013-10-30T18:11:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4112"},"modified":"2013-10-30T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T18:22:07","slug":"new-attention-to-us-20-intersection-in-dubuque-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/new-attention-to-us-20-intersection-in-dubuque-county\/","title":{"rendered":"New attention to US 20 intersection in Dubuque County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East of Peosta, US 20 leaves the straight line running from Farley and turns northeast to Dubuque. \u00a0Fifty years ago, there was a Highway Commission concept to run 20 straight east into Illinois, but budget and topographical considerations ensured it would never be more than a dotted line on a map. The entire portion in Dubuque County is an expressway, meaning there are multiple at-grade intersections.<\/p>\n<p>US 20 intersects Swiss Valley Road as it turns. Swiss Valley Road is a paved connection from US 20 to US 151, even though it&#8217;s two-lane and winding. The intersection has been the site of multiple accidents. KWWL reports that plans from 2006 to modify the intersection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/story\/23823512\/2013\/10\/29\/notoriously-dangerous-hwy-20-intersection-may-see-improvements\">have been brought up again<\/a> by the relative of a recent accident victim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East of Peosta, US 20 leaves the straight line running from Farley and turns northeast to Dubuque. \u00a0Fifty years ago, there was a Highway Commission concept to run 20 straight east into Illinois, but budget and topographical considerations ensured it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/new-attention-to-us-20-intersection-in-dubuque-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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112","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=4112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4113,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4112\/revisions\/4113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}