{"id":7193,"date":"2016-02-29T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7193"},"modified":"2016-02-26T01:25:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T07:25:58","slug":"meeting-about-us-30-in-toledo-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/meeting-about-us-30-in-toledo-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting about US 30 in Toledo this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Iowa DOT will hold a meeting in Toledo on Thursday<\/a> to discuss the plan to four-lane US 30 in eastern Tama County.<\/p>\n

It won’t be completed for years, but the first step is acquiring right-of-way. The project statement says an all-new four-lane will be built north of the existing lanes, which will be removed “with the exception of some minor areas where the existing roadway may be used as a frontage road.” This indicates that Alternative 3 shown in June 2011 was the final selection, which was far enough north the old road can remain. The four-lane will take out whatever’s left of the extinct village of Gladstone and negate the need for a bridge over the old railroad grade.<\/p>\n

Building four all-new lanes while eliminating the existing roadbed has gained traction in Iowa recently. The new plans for US 61 north of Burlington have a mixture of that<\/a> (PDF) and leaving old 61 as a frontage road<\/a>\u00a0(PDF) with the exception of a couple intersections where the road will “bow out”. (The closest analogue to the latter is in central Illinois, where I-55 was built right beside US 66, except overpasses are involved there.)<\/p>\n

(There is also a meeting the night before in Le Grand<\/a> regarding two miles of IA 146 in and south of town, including replacement of the bridge over the railroad.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iowa DOT will hold a meeting in Toledo on Thursday to discuss the plan to four-lane US 30 in eastern Tama County. It won’t be completed for years, but the first step is acquiring right-of-way. The project statement says … Continue reading →<\/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":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193","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=7193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7194,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7193\/revisions\/7194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}