{"id":6380,"date":"2015-07-20T10:06:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6380"},"modified":"2015-07-20T00:06:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T05:06:14","slug":"design-for-ia-141-nw-100th-street-interchanges-selected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/design-for-ia-141-nw-100th-street-interchanges-selected\/","title":{"rendered":"Design for IA 141, NW 100th Street interchanges selected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/May06\/Exit127_141_eb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>May 7, 2006:<\/strong> This loop ramp from eastbound I-80\/northbound I-35 to IA 141\/Urbandale Avenue will be removed by the end of the 2010s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>KCCI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/big-changes-planned-where-i8035-meets-highway-141\/34217536\">reports that the Iowa DOT last week<\/a> selected Alternative 2 for the IA 141 interchange at I-35\/80. (That&#8217;s <em>Rider<\/em> Corner, not <em>Ryder<\/em>, where the interstate turns from north-south to east-west.) The selection comes with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/files\/i35i80iowa141ijr-1.pdf\">500-page, 25-megabyte<\/a> (!) PDF about it.<\/p>\n<p>A diamond interchange will be built to the east, at NW 100th Street, and two ramps will be added to the south, at Meredith Drive (northbound off\/southbound on). As for IA 141 itself, the folded diamond\/parclo will be removed. The westbound off\/on ramps will remain substantially the same, but the northbound ramp will become a flyover ramp with bridge. However, there will <em>not<\/em> be any ramp from southbound 141 to eastbound 35\/80; traffic will have to make a left turn at the stoplight at Grimes&#8217; 37th Avenue half a mile north of the interchange and then a right turn onto 100th Street to that new interchange. Alternative 2 also adds a lane to most of each side of the interstate between Douglas Avenue and 86th Street, but as a non-merging onramp lane that becomes exit-only, not a through lane.<\/p>\n<p>All the work on this interchange, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia141.html\">the east end of IA 141<\/a>, would occur later this decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 7, 2006: This loop ramp from eastbound I-80\/northbound I-35 to IA 141\/Urbandale Avenue will be removed by the end of the 2010s. KCCI reports that the Iowa DOT last week selected Alternative 2 for the IA 141 interchange at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/design-for-ia-141-nw-100th-street-interchanges-selected\/\">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-6380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380","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=6380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6382,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6380\/revisions\/6382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}