{"id":5357,"date":"2014-10-16T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2014-10-14T19:35:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T00:35:16","slug":"us-34-missouri-river-bridge-will-open-oct-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/us-34-missouri-river-bridge-will-open-oct-22\/","title":{"rendered":"US 34 Missouri River bridge will open Oct. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After many delays, the new Plattsmouth bridge is scheduled to open Oct. 22, creating a shorter four-lane link from I-29 to the south Omaha suburbs. There are stories from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/news\/iowa\/officials-m-mills-sarpy-bridge-likely-to-open-in-weeks\/article_90707b3c-4bde-11e4-94a6-001a4bcf6878.html\">Omaha World-Herald<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowt.com\/home\/headlines\/Bridge-From-Glenwood-To-Plattsmouth-Opening-Soon-278568201.html\">WOWT<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmaland.com\/news\/highway-bridge-project-nears-completion\/article_90e7240c-48b5-11e4-b002-0017a43b2370.html\">KMA Radio.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the bridge is complete, traffic will enter\/exit Iowa on US 34 via Sarpy County instead of Cass County.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Glenwood Opinion-Tribune<\/em> says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinion-tribune.com\/content\/i-29highway-34-interchange-could-open-thursday\">the redone I-29\/US 34 interchange itself could open today<\/a>. (Weather permitting, it says, but at least the rain was parked over central and eastern Iowa instead of western.) The six-ramp interchange replaces a diamond and has longer ramps. The <em>O-T<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinion-tribune.com\/content\/highway-34-communities-optimistic-about-potential-impact-missouri-river-bridge\">also looked at what the new connection can mean for southwest Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many delays, the new Plattsmouth bridge is scheduled to open Oct. 22, creating a shorter four-lane link from I-29 to the south Omaha suburbs. There are stories from the Omaha World-Herald, WOWT, and KMA Radio. After the bridge is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/us-34-missouri-river-bridge-will-open-oct-22\/\">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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","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=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}