{"id":5797,"date":"2015-02-13T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2015-02-12T02:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T08:00:45","slug":"ia-3s-last-blocks-change-in-dubuque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/ia-3s-last-blocks-change-in-dubuque\/","title":{"rendered":"IA 3&#8217;s last blocks change in Dubuque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/April06\/End3E_apr06.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"260\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>April 18, 2006:<\/strong> This part of 9th Street in Dubuque is now two-way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remember this story from a while back about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/news\/local\/Dubuque-to-Convert-One-Ways-to-Two-Way-Streets-215610941.html\">Dubuque getting rid of some one-way streets<\/a>? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofdubuque.org\/ArchiveCenter\/ViewFile\/Item\/4496\">That happened Aug. 25.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That conversion of east-west streets affected US 52 and IA 3 from the one-way pair of Central and White streets to the US 61\/151 freeway. Now IA 3&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia3.html\">east end and west beginning<\/a> are both on 9th Street \u2014 with a catch. The freeway ramps don&#8217;t change, reflecting the old one-way pair with the southbound exit\/northbound entrance at 11th Street and the northbound exit\/southbound entrance at 9th Street. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2015\/02\/actions-taken-by-the-iowa-transportation-commission-at-its-feb-10-meeting-in-ames.html\">A transfer of jurisdiction with Dubuque<\/a> was passed earlier this week, but because of the split locations of the ramps, the state is turning over <em>only one lane<\/em>\u00a0(the new eastbound lane) of 11th Street between White and US 61, and <em>only one lane<\/em> of 9th (the new westbound lane) between White and Central. The state will take over both lanes of the two blocks of White between 9th and 11th.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, this will be a temporary change for both routes. The entire city-street portion of US 52 in Dubuque will be turned over to the city, and IA 3 truncated to around the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/sageville.html\">IA 32\/former IA 386 junction<\/a>, when the Southwest Arterial is completed.<\/p>\n<p>Lane miles are very important measurements, and the very refined nature of this transaction shows that, however weird it may be. (Just another reason to get rid of one-way streets!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 18, 2006: This part of 9th Street in Dubuque is now two-way. Remember this story from a while back about Dubuque getting rid of some one-way streets? That happened Aug. 25. That conversion of east-west streets affected US 52 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/02\/ia-3s-last-blocks-change-in-dubuque\/\">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-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","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=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5800,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/5800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}