{"id":4924,"date":"2014-05-29T16:45:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T21:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2014-05-29T23:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T04:00:26","slug":"ia-330117-interchange-or-j-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/ia-330117-interchange-or-j-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"IA 330\/117: Interchange or J-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After years now of talk and work, the Iowa DOT is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2014\/05\/iowa-330-jasper-county-june-3.html\">down to two options for the IA 117\/330\/US 65 intersection area in Jasper County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The interchange and J-turn plans now are substantially what they were last time, with the note that the northbound offramps do not include a traffic circle. The J-turn would not substantially affect surrounding land. The interchange would bisect the area between IA 117 and County Road F17 and force the removal of three farmsteads&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;farmsteads owned by a family that has been fighting the Marshalltown diagonal literally for generations.<\/p>\n<p><script height=\"365px\" width=\"650px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#ec=ZtbnUxbjr4rLHd-mFN0JMuOk14B2XV5m&#038;pbid=65279b80531146eea3c65f3510b1c4b9\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Surely Cleverly noticed that some time ago, the DOT already extended turn lanes, added intersection warning signs, and dropped the speed limit, but it&#8217;s not enough. It is still No. 10 overall, and No. 3 for rural areas, on the state&#8217;s &#8220;Intersection Safety Improvement Candidate Location&#8221; list.<\/p>\n<p>The public meeting will be June 3 in Baxter, and it&#8217;s notable for including a formal presentation, which isn&#8217;t done very often nowadays. It&#8217;s possible the DOT will be fighting its most public eminent-domain battle in some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years now of talk and work, the Iowa DOT is down to two options for the IA 117\/330\/US 65 intersection area in Jasper County. The interchange and J-turn plans now are substantially what they were last time, with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/ia-330117-interchange-or-j-turn\/\">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-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","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=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}