{"id":6004,"date":"2015-04-15T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2015-04-11T20:37:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T01:37:20","slug":"jasper-county-bridge-replacement-prepares-for-six-lane-i-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/jasper-county-bridge-replacement-prepares-for-six-lane-i-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasper County bridge replacement prepares for six-lane I-80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preparation for an eventual <a href=\"http:\/\/yourweeklypaper.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/30\/plans-being-developed-to-widen-i-80-between-des-moines-and-davenport\/\">upgrade of I-80 to six lanes east of Des Moines<\/a>, which at the moment has no timetable, was first manifested in new bridges over the Cedar River. Now it&#8217;s time to replace bridges over the Skunk River, and the Iowa DOT is planning on doing the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>Six-laning I-80 will require relocation of the main travel lanes. We&#8217;ve already seen this in action on I-35 in Warren County, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/011013I35Ps.pdf\">north of and at IA 92<\/a>. New lanes will be constructed alongside the old ones, but two lanes for right now. The new bridges will be three lanes wide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/042115I80JasperPD2.pdf\">The documentation (PDF)<\/a> shows a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/042115I80JasperPD1.pdf\">four-year process at the Skunk River<\/a>. A gravel-road bridge over I-80 will be removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparation for an eventual upgrade of I-80 to six lanes east of Des Moines, which at the moment has no timetable, was first manifested in new bridges over the Cedar River. Now it&#8217;s time to replace bridges over the Skunk &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/04\/jasper-county-bridge-replacement-prepares-for-six-lane-i-80\/\">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-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","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=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}