{"id":7978,"date":"2016-10-17T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2016-10-16T01:05:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T06:05:10","slug":"significant-us-20-detour-to-last-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/significant-us-20-detour-to-last-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Significant US 20 detour to last two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the easternmost 13 miles of two-lane US 20, in Ida and Sac counties, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/newsandinfo\/2016\/10\/us-20-in-ida-and-sac-counties-to-close-oct-17-for-us-20-expansion-work-iatraffic.html\">will close &#8220;until late fall 2018,&#8221;<\/a> the Iowa DOT says in a press release. (See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicletimes.com\/story\/2346245.html\">this <em>Cherokee Chronicle Times<\/em> story<\/a>.) This is significant not only for its distance and time, but because when the highway opens again, it will be as part of a complete four-lane 20 across Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>The Schaller-Crestland and Galva-Holstein school districts, sharing as Ridge View, will be significantly affected, <a href=\"http:\/\/siouxcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/u-s-detour-to-affect-galva-to-early-traffic-for\/article_8846c8b5-1b75-5f9a-93dc-2fc14209ec5d.html\">the <em>Sioux City Journal<\/em> reports<\/a>. The <em>Journal<\/em> also mentions that traffic will not go through Schaller, but on two miles of newly paved road around the northwest part of town.<\/p>\n<p>County Road D15 between Galva and Schaller was US 20 for the first decade of the highway&#8217;s life. So, just like how there&#8217;s a detour right now using D22 west of Correctionville, the final step in making the new highway involves a callback to the old one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the easternmost 13 miles of two-lane US 20, in Ida and Sac counties, will close &#8220;until late fall 2018,&#8221; the Iowa DOT says in a press release. (See also this Cherokee Chronicle Times story.) This is significant not only &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/significant-us-20-detour-to-last-two-years\/\">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-7978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978","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=7978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8012,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7978\/revisions\/8012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}