{"id":4834,"date":"2014-04-30T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2014-04-30T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T21:18:25","slug":"university-avenue-construction-needed-but-not-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/university-avenue-construction-needed-but-not-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"University Avenue construction needed, but not wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KWWL has a(nother) story about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwwl.com\/story\/25384058\/2014\/04\/29\/university-ave-still-causing-headaches-for-drivers\">troublesome state of University Avenue<\/a> \u2014 once US 218, now <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia934.html\">IA 934<\/a> \u2014 in Cedar Falls and Waterloo. A DOT employee says there are &#8220;negotiations&#8221; for transferring jurisdiction to the cities. At the same time, however, there have been fits and starts at coming up with a comprehensive plan for the six-lane urban arterial. The most recent is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2013\/10\/iowa-934university-ave-cedar-fallswaterloo-oct-29.html\">roundabout-laden monstrosity<\/a> with four lanes of traffic plus a bike lane and &#8220;multi-use path.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The state often does studies before funding is attached \u2014 the Wapello bypass and four-laning US 61 in Louisa County would be one of them \u2014 but this seems different, almost like a game of hot potato. I suspect the situation is along the lines of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The state and the cities know University Avenue needs to be repaired \u2014 check that, not repaired but wholly rebuilt.<\/li>\n<li>The state would like to turn the road over, with some set amount of money, and let the cities deal with the rebuilding.<\/li>\n<li>Waterloo and Cedar Falls want University fixed first, before it becomes their responsibility.<\/li>\n<li>So it needs to be done, but neither side particularly wants it done on its watch. That doesn&#8217;t stop plans from being made, but it does affect the timetable or lack thereof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could be wrong, but that&#8217;s how it looks to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KWWL has a(nother) story about the troublesome state of University Avenue \u2014 once US 218, now IA 934 \u2014 in Cedar Falls and Waterloo. A DOT employee says there are &#8220;negotiations&#8221; for transferring jurisdiction to the cities. At the same &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/university-avenue-construction-needed-but-not-wanted\/\">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-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","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=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4835,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/4835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}