{"id":5951,"date":"2015-03-30T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2015-03-29T02:05:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T07:05:56","slug":"waukee-rest-areas-close-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/waukee-rest-areas-close-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Waukee rest areas close Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5952\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/waukeerestarea.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/waukeerestarea.jpg 630w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/waukeerestarea-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>September 28, 2012:<\/strong> The eastbound I-80 rest area near mile marker 119, as seen from the Alice&#8217;s Road bridge.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The nearly unused six-lane bridge has loomed beside them for years now, and the end is finally here: The rest areas on what used to be rural Dallas County miles from West Des Moines <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2015\/03\/26\/two-rest-stops-waukee-close\/70516362\/\">are going to shut down for good<\/a>\u00a0April 1. They&#8217;l be torn down and construction will begin on the Alice&#8217;s Road SPUI interchange on the border between Waukee and West Des Moines.\u00a0(The cities want you to call it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/waukee-decides-on-alices-road-name-change\/25831048\">Grand Prairie Parkway<\/a>, in the Kettlestone Development, which just smacks of&#8230;well, the kind of names they come up with in West Des Moines and Waukee and Ankeny and North Liberty.)<\/p>\n<p>The sprawl made this inevitable. Eventually, the entire area will be surrounded by development. The rest areas were a nice place to stop right before\/after heading through the Des Moines metro area, but now there will not be an official I-80 rest area from Adair to Mitchellville. (You&#8217;ll have to make do with the Kum &amp; Go at the exit to the west of here.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 28, 2012: The eastbound I-80 rest area near mile marker 119, as seen from the Alice&#8217;s Road bridge. The nearly unused six-lane bridge has loomed beside them for years now, and the end is finally here: The rest areas &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/waukee-rest-areas-close-wednesday\/\">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":[13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951","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=5951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}