{"id":4259,"date":"2013-12-09T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2013-12-09T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:30:28","slug":"an-ambitious-plan-to-raise-us-63-in-waterloo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/an-ambitious-plan-to-raise-us-63-in-waterloo\/","title":{"rendered":"An ambitious plan to raise US 63 in Waterloo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Department of Transportation in recent years has put forth reconstruction plans for US 63 north of downtown Waterloo. The section in the vicinity of a railroad underpass had its own plan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2013\/12\/us-63-in-waterloo-dec-3-2013.html\">Now we know what that plan is \u2014<\/a> instead of going under the railroad, the DOT wants to put 63 over the railroad. There was a public meeting about it last week.<\/p>\n<p>From about Dane Street to the Newell\/Conger intersection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/120313US63PD3.pdf\">a long concrete overpass (PDF)<\/a> would carry four lanes with a median.<\/p>\n<p>The underpass and current four-lane configuration of US 63 in the area was built 50 years ago this year. Funding for this project is included in the state&#8217;s most recent five-year plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa Department of Transportation in recent years has put forth reconstruction plans for US 63 north of downtown Waterloo. The section in the vicinity of a railroad underpass had its own plan. Now we know what that plan is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/an-ambitious-plan-to-raise-us-63-in-waterloo\/\">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-4259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259","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=4259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4260,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4259\/revisions\/4260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}