{"id":6474,"date":"2015-08-20T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6474"},"modified":"2015-08-16T23:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T04:59:39","slug":"final-us-20-segment-plans-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/final-us-20-segment-plans-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Final US 20 segment plans released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/LabDay08\/20_110_eb.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"235\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>August 31, 2008:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia110.html\">IA 110&#8217;s south end<\/a> is along the last big part of US 20 in Iowa that will be expanded to four lanes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The DOT held a meeting a week ago today regarding an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2015\/08\/us-20-ida-and-sac-counties-aug-13-2015.html\">upgrade to the last major two-lane stretch of US 20 in Iowa<\/a>. This covers the segment from the Ida\/Sac county line east to US 71, which has an accelerated timeline from the increase in the gas tax. Most of this part of the four-lane <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/U.S.20IdaandSac.pdf\">will run north of the current section-line road<\/a>\u00a0(PDF map), possibly because of grooved pavement used in the center stripe right now. The segment farther west to Correctionville was covered in a meeting earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The construction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/detour_U.S.20IdaandSac.pdf\">will require a detour<\/a>\u00a0(PDF). If you drive 20 right now, you can see that the future westbound lanes stop abruptly before a farmstead, which will be lost in the construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 31, 2008: IA 110&#8217;s south end is along the last big part of US 20 in Iowa that will be expanded to four lanes. The DOT held a meeting a week ago today regarding an upgrade to the last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/08\/final-us-20-segment-plans-released\/\">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-6474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474","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=6474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6474\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}