{"id":5899,"date":"2015-03-16T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5899"},"modified":"2015-03-11T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T03:21:09","slug":"ia-196-will-leave-a-good-looking-corpse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/ia-196-will-leave-a-good-looking-corpse\/","title":{"rendered":"IA 196 will leave a good-looking corpse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/Sept07\/17\/End196S_lastsigns.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"245\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>September 17, 2007:<\/strong> The curve at this intersection will be obliterated, and eventually US 71 will run behind the camera.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Starting today, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia196.html\">IA 196 as we knew it<\/a> will never exist again. I think.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2015\/03\/detour-of-iowa-196-traffic-in-sac-county-begins-at-9-am-march-16-iatraffic.html\">Construction starts today on a complete rebuild of 196<\/a> from US 71\/IA 175 to old US 20. Pavement will be ripped up and all bridges will be replaced. This is a precursor to moving US 71 onto 196&#8217;s route. (All of the relevant pieces were part of the Jan. 21 lettings.) The current large curve in the southwest quadrant of 196&#8217;s south end will be removed (as much of the traffic will switch to running straight through).<\/p>\n<p>IA 196 is being detoured until the day before Thanksgiving, so that indicates the scope of the project, and means lots of detour signs with a short shelf life. I wouldn&#8217;t expect a reroute of 71 before the rebuilt road opens, but it&#8217;s possible the reopening and reroute would happen at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lb.511ia.org\/ialb\/roadreports\/routeselect.jsf;jsessionid=7E4ACF6D7B2E6E9DB769143F992BAB5A?view=state&amp;text=m&amp;textOnly=false&amp;current=true\">511 website&#8217;s road report map<\/a> is pretty sparse right now, but it&#8217;s going to light up over the next few weeks as projects begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 17, 2007: The curve at this intersection will be obliterated, and eventually US 71 will run behind the camera. Starting today, IA 196 as we knew it will never exist again. I think. Construction starts today on a complete &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/ia-196-will-leave-a-good-looking-corpse\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899","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=5899"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5899\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}