{"id":4494,"date":"2014-02-10T14:08:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2014-02-10T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T20:08:32","slug":"benton-county-opposes-j-turn-at-30218-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/benton-county-opposes-j-turn-at-30218-intersection\/","title":{"rendered":"Benton County opposes J-turn at 30\/218 intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of August, the DOT had narrowed the options for what to do with the US 30\/218 intersection (where the four-lane currently ends) to two: A double-parclo interchange, with ramps in the northwest and southeast corners of the intersection, or a J-turn, in which traffic turning left has to turn <em>right<\/em> first, cross traffic, and then make a U-turn. That would especially affect all southbound 218 traffic (Vinton to Cedar Rapids).<\/p>\n<p>Last week the Benton County Board of Supervisors &#8220;redefined and readopted&#8221; a resolution opposing the J-turn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitynewspapergroup.com\/vinton_newspapers\/article_4b660e66-902d-11e3-b1f8-0019bb2963f4.html\">reports the Cedar Valley Daily Times.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of August, the DOT had narrowed the options for what to do with the US 30\/218 intersection (where the four-lane currently ends) to two: A double-parclo interchange, with ramps in the northwest and southeast corners of the intersection, or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/benton-county-opposes-j-turn-at-30218-intersection\/\">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-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","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=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}