{"id":7713,"date":"2016-07-01T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7713"},"modified":"2016-06-30T01:44:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T06:44:57","slug":"moving-ia-17-off-lincoln-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/moving-ia-17-off-lincoln-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving IA 17 off Lincoln Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nJuly 5, 2013:<\/strong> The original Lincoln Highway runs on IA 17 between E41 and 205th Street in Boone County. The elevator is part of West Central Cooperative.<\/em><\/p>\n

There is a mile-long east-west segment of IA 17 that runs along old US 30, north of the four-lane, east of Boone. When IA 17 turns north again, there’s an at-grade railroad crossing right at a West Central Cooperative elevator. (The elevator is the last legacy of the town of Jordan.)<\/p>\n

At a meeting earlier this week<\/a>, the DOT presented options to reroute IA 17 in the area. All the options (PDF) have a railroad overpass<\/a>\u00a0with new connector to E41\/old 30. One option has a gradual curve to line up the segments; the others keep right angles but the east-west segment would be north of the elevator.<\/p>\n

The reroute is a good idea. Making IA 17 traffic turn at right angles is fine, and would be an improvement since the existing turn at the elevator is sharper than 90 degrees.<\/p>\n

The signed Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway uses the 1913 alignment, crossing the railroad tracks back at R Avenue, going east on 205th Street, then south on IA 17, then east at Jordan, then crossing the railroad tracks again on U Avenue before heading east to Ames on 220th Street. That means it’s a north-south half-mile of 17 that is co-signed with the Lincoln, while it’s the east-west mile that used to be part of US 30. If the new 17 were to use 205th Street as its east-west mile (the “orange concept”), it would be the first time the Lincoln Highway in Iowa gained pavement in a very<\/em> long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 5, 2013: The original Lincoln Highway runs on IA 17 between E41 and 205th Street in Boone County. The elevator is part of West Central Cooperative. There is a mile-long east-west segment of IA 17 that runs along old … 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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713","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=7713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7718,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7713\/revisions\/7718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}