{"id":8157,"date":"2016-12-01T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8157"},"modified":"2016-12-01T02:09:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T08:09:59","slug":"the-most-rural-stoplight-in-iowa-perhaps-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-most-rural-stoplight-in-iowa-perhaps-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The most rural stoplight in Iowa, perhaps, for now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSeptember 26, 2016:\u00a0<\/strong>Around Iowa, this is an unusual sight: A stoplight at the intersection of two county roads with nothing around. It’s at E34 (County Home Road) and W6E (Center Point Road) in Linn County.<\/em><\/p>\n

Traditionally, the state of Iowa and municipalities stay away from putting stoplights on rural roads. (It’s part of what the US 65\/IA 330 kerfuffle is about.) But, in the semi-recent past, the southeast corner of the E34\/W6E intersection was incorporated into the suburb of Robins, making it less rural. Per Google Maps Street View, the stoplight was put up between mid-2009 and early 2012; a church\u00a0to the south that opened in 2011 with a biiiig<\/em> parking lot may have been a factor in the intersection upgrade as well. A gas station at the I-380 E34 exit, the first building at the interchange, is less than a year old.<\/p>\n

You can see Robins’ very janky north city limits on the PDF map here.<\/a>\u00a0(Note also that much of the west city limits cling to the right-of-way on I-380 except for that one spot.) While the core of Robins is 2\u00bd to 3 miles southeast of this corner, the city is boxed in on the south, making sprawl in this direction inevitable. A special census completed this year<\/a> pushed it above Tipton and Rock Valley in population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 26, 2016:\u00a0Around Iowa, this is an unusual sight: A stoplight at the intersection of two county roads with nothing around. It’s at E34 (County Home Road) and W6E (Center Point Road) in Linn County. Traditionally, the state of Iowa … 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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157","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=8157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8161,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8157\/revisions\/8161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}