{"id":4215,"date":"2013-11-25T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2013-11-25T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:52:09","slug":"reconstructed-ia-86-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/reconstructed-ia-86-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructed IA 86 now open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4217\" alt=\"NewBegin86\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NewBegin86.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NewBegin86.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/NewBegin86-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This photo from Chris Ehret shows new <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia86.html\">IA 86<\/a> at the Minnesota state line. If &#8220;Dickinson County&#8221; had been white on green and on the top of the pole, it would look like an older style county sign, but this is nonstandard. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2013\/11\/dickinson-county-celebrates-reopening-of-iowa-86-iatraffic-.html\">The highway opened Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The road was rebuilt from IA 9 northward, something that had not been done since the state originally took over an existing county road in the early 1980s. It is now a major corridor from the Iowa Great Lakes to I-90.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of two quick, sharp curves at the Minnesota border, the road now gradually angles northward from a mile south of the line. (This means I have to go back and re-travel it. Ack!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktiv.com\/story\/24035835\/2013\/11\/21\/lakes-area-news-a-stretch-of-highway-near-the-iowa-great-lakes-has-reopened\">KTIV has a short story<\/a> and pictures of the new road, including a distance sign to I-90. This is, to the best of my knowledge, the second appearance of I-90 on a mileage sign in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/KTIV.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=287325;hostDomain=www.ktiv.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9558888;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay\"><\/script><a title=\"KTIV News 4 Sioux City IA:  News, Weather and Sports\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ktiv.com\">KTIV News 4 Sioux City IA: News, Weather and Sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo from Chris Ehret shows new IA 86 at the Minnesota state line. If &#8220;Dickinson County&#8221; had been white on green and on the top of the pole, it would look like an older style county sign, but this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/11\/reconstructed-ia-86-now-open\/\">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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","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=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}