{"id":7146,"date":"2016-02-15T11:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2016-02-12T02:01:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T08:01:34","slug":"mediapolis-bypass-ia-78-interchange-part-of-us-61-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/mediapolis-bypass-ia-78-interchange-part-of-us-61-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediapolis bypass, IA 78 interchange part of US 61 plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa&#8217;s last rural segment of US 61 that isn&#8217;t four lanes north of Keokuk is between Burlington and Grandview, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2016\/01\/us-61-in-des-moines-and-louisa-county-feb-16-2016.html\">meeting in Mediapolis on Tuesday<\/a> is about closing that gap.<\/p>\n<p>The existing five-year plan has US 61 four-laned from the north side of Burlington to a mile north of IA 78 by 2020. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/021616US61PS.pdf\">Much of the alignment follows existing 61<\/a> (PDF), but it bypasses Mediapolis and straightens up north of H28. A new interchange would be built to the east of the present IA 78 intersection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa&#8217;s last rural segment of US 61 that isn&#8217;t four lanes north of Keokuk is between Burlington and Grandview, and a meeting in Mediapolis on Tuesday is about closing that gap. The existing five-year plan has US 61 four-laned from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/mediapolis-bypass-ia-78-interchange-part-of-us-61-plans\/\">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-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","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=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7147,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/7147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}