{"id":6952,"date":"2016-01-04T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2016-01-03T21:58:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T03:58:51","slug":"construction-progress-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/construction-progress-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction progress reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <em>Gazette<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/government\/highway-100-extension-on-schedule-and-budget-20151221\">&#8220;Highway 100 extension on schedule and budget&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the <em>Sioux City Journal<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/no-highway-widening-heads-to-finish-line\/article_3f93bad4-e66a-541d-87b2-24e352155912.html\">&#8220;Highway 20 widening heads to finish line&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both of these projects are expected to be completed by the end of the decade, and the I-74 bridge is just beyond that timespan.<\/p>\n<p>Five-laning US 20 \u2014 an undivided four with a center turn lane, much like a city arterial \u2014 for a short distance in Correctionville was the only upgrade in Iowa in 2015, and whether that counts is debatable. IA 31 was rerouted to the west side of town ahead of a detour that will use it and old 20 while new lanes are built to the west.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, regarding a project that hasn&#8217;t\u00a0started, the <em>Ames Tribune<\/em> says the DOT <a href=\"http:\/\/amestrib.com\/news\/supervisors-discuss-plan-highway-30-task-force#sthash.EqX7KjHP.dpuf\">still plans to close at-grade intersections<\/a> on US 30 between I-35 and Nevada over objections from the county supervisors and nearby landowners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Gazette: &#8220;Highway 100 extension on schedule and budget&#8221; From the Sioux City Journal: &#8220;Highway 20 widening heads to finish line&#8221; Both of these projects are expected to be completed by the end of the decade, and the I-74 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/construction-progress-reports\/\">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-6952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952","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=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6954,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions\/6954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}