{"id":5099,"date":"2014-07-18T10:20:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2014-07-14T00:45:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T05:45:25","slug":"t69-north-of-d65-has-been-blacktopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/t69-north-of-d65-has-been-blacktopped\/","title":{"rendered":"T69 north of D65 has been blacktopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in decades, Tama County has (sort of) paved a new rural road.<\/p>\n<p>County Road T69, L Avenue, runs north-south just west of Dinsdale. It comes south from IA 175 as paved, but that stopped at the Grundy\/Tama county line. When Tama County undertook a comprehensive rebuilding of D65 last year, the old asphalt from that was recycled into a bituminous\/&#8221;blacktop&#8221; covering for T69.<\/p>\n<p>By and large, rural Iowa roads are either paved with center- and edge-line markings or they are gravel. This is different from other states, where a middle style of not-gravel-but-not-painted blacktopping is plentiful. The new T69, though, is in this middle style, as is the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia362.html\">former IA 362<\/a> in far western Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>The county road\/farm-to-market designation continues south on L Avenue, Ridge Road, and K Avenue to US 63, but there are no plans to change anything there.<\/p>\n<p>(I am a little late to the party on this, but for a rural county this is a notable thing.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in decades, Tama County has (sort of) paved a new rural road. County Road T69, L Avenue, runs north-south just west of Dinsdale. It comes south from IA 175 as paved, but that stopped at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/07\/t69-north-of-d65-has-been-blacktopped\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099","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=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5101,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}