{"id":5243,"date":"2014-08-22T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2014-08-21T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T21:43:38","slug":"coralville-wants-1st-avenue-exit-upgraded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/coralville-wants-1st-avenue-exit-upgraded\/","title":{"rendered":"Coralville wants 1st Avenue exit upgraded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5244\" alt=\"1stAveExit\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1stAveExit.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"185\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 12, 2001:<\/strong> The flash on this picture reveals that &#8220;1st Ave&#8221; was a greenout for the original label &#8220;Coralville&#8221; on this I-80 BGS.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The state just finished rebuilding and expanding I-80 in the Iowa City area, <a href=\"http:\/\/thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/coralville-seeks-193-million-interstate-80-interchange-replacement-20140815\">but Coralville is hungry for more<\/a>. The First Avenue exit, currently a regular diamond, is getting more traffic both because of suburban expansion and new retail in the area. The city has proposed a diverging diamond interchange, which would be the second in Iowa after the upcoming <del>Alice&#8217;s Road<\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/waukee-decides-on-alices-road-name-change\/25831048#!bHIrzV\">Grand Prairie Parkway project in Waukee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also of interest at the bottom of the article: Converting the cloverleaf at I-380&#8217;s south end (taking IA 100&#8217;s place on the Real Soon Now timeline) and an exit on I-380 two miles north of there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 12, 2001: The flash on this picture reveals that &#8220;1st Ave&#8221; was a greenout for the original label &#8220;Coralville&#8221; on this I-80 BGS. The state just finished rebuilding and expanding I-80 in the Iowa City area, but Coralville is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/coralville-wants-1st-avenue-exit-upgraded\/\">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-5243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243","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=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5245,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions\/5245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}