{"id":6723,"date":"2015-11-03T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2015-11-02T23:20:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T05:20:50","slug":"roads-abandoned-amid-budget-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/roads-abandoned-amid-budget-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads abandoned amid budget difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2015\/10\/27\/rural-roads-left-alone-amid-tight-budgets\/74710992\/ \">AP via Des Moines Register:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[S]omething surprising is happening to Iowa\u2019s transportation system. It\u2019s actually getting smaller as state and county agencies quietly give up on maintaining many rural roads and bridges to spend on bigger, more essential projects in busier areas. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal;\"><em>Rural communities complain that they are being shortchanged in favor of cities.<\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>During the last five years, Warren County has permanently closed 20 bridges over small streams, with more likely to come. Current budgets can\u2019t possibly pay to maintain every road or bridge built over the last six decades, according to transportation officials.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: normal;\">What&#8217;s happening is <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/on-the-iowa-dot-directors-fewer-roads-statement\/\">exactly what I said the DOT director meant in his statement<\/a>\u00a0about a shrinking road system.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP via Des Moines Register: [S]omething surprising is happening to Iowa\u2019s transportation system. It\u2019s actually getting smaller as state and county agencies quietly give up on maintaining many rural roads and bridges to spend on bigger, more essential projects in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/roads-abandoned-amid-budget-difficulties\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723","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=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}