{"id":4766,"date":"2014-04-11T11:17:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2014-04-10T23:39:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T04:39:17","slug":"more-information-on-proposed-wapello-bypass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/more-information-on-proposed-wapello-bypass\/","title":{"rendered":"More information on proposed Wapello bypass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DOT meeting about US 61 in Wapello, which I referred to earlier this week, has been scheduled for April 24. The project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/PIM%20Ad_US61_WapelloPS.pdf\">information is already online (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In that writeup we learn a little more about US 61 in the area. The present alignment of US 61 was built in 1932; prior to then it came into Wapello from the south on J Avenue, crossed the Iowa River on the bridge that later was added to <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia99.html\">IA 99<\/a>, and went to Grandview on I Avenue. (<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia252.html\">IA 252<\/a> was a legacy of this.) It was widened in 1955 and then widened again in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>The four-lane would split from the current alignment a mile and a half north of Wapello, bypass to the west, and rejoin present US 61 at the short diagonal near J Avenue. With the through-town option eliminated, there are two bypass+interchange options left. The nearer, straighter option runs right over two farmsteads on G62.<\/p>\n<p>There is no timetable for the project right now; it&#8217;s not in the current five-year plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DOT meeting about US 61 in Wapello, which I referred to earlier this week, has been scheduled for April 24. The project information is already online (PDF). In that writeup we learn a little more about US 61 in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/more-information-on-proposed-wapello-bypass\/\">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-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","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=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4769,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}