{"id":5635,"date":"2014-12-22T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5635"},"modified":"2014-12-21T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T21:33:30","slug":"oskaloosa-bypass-plans-narrowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/oskaloosa-bypass-plans-narrowed\/","title":{"rendered":"Oskaloosa bypass plans narrowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the <a href=\"http:\/\/oskynews.org\/?p=67878\">DOT showed off its proposals<\/a> for a western bypass of Oskaloosa for US 63. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2014\/11\/us-63-in-mahaska-county-dec-16-2014.html\">There are four permutations<\/a>, based on the locations of the start and end points of the bypass.<\/p>\n<p>The south end would be either in direct line with gravel Jewell Avenue, or come at a slight angle from County Road G43. This is about where the IA 163 bypass of Oskaloosa from the old two-lane (former IA 432) begins. In either case, it is clear that US 63 is the subordinate route, and the overall distance will be longer than going through Oskaloosa.<\/p>\n<p>The north end would be either by the Oskaloosa waterworks or farther to the north. The key difference is that the former does not include a new bridge over the Skunk River, but leaves intact a pair of slight curves of the road at and just north of where the bypass would meet present 63.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, the bypass would meet the present road north of the railroad tracks, where a whole new overpass was recently built. If you look at the PDF maps (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/mahaskadisplay1and2.pdf\">Option 1\/2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/mahaskadisplay4and5.pdf\">Option 4\/5<\/a>), you can see a very old alignment for 63 just below (and beneath) the 63 and G39 shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the DOT showed off its proposals for a western bypass of Oskaloosa for US 63. There are four permutations, based on the locations of the start and end points of the bypass. The south end would be either &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/oskaloosa-bypass-plans-narrowed\/\">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-5635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635","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=5635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5635\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}