{"id":8271,"date":"2017-01-19T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T16:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2017-01-17T01:36:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T07:36:03","slug":"a-long-wait-for-pleasantville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-long-wait-for-pleasantville\/","title":{"rendered":"A long wait for Pleasantville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/Oct04\/EndS45N_signs.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"180\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 8, 2004:<\/strong> Northbound <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia181.html\">former IA 181<\/a> at the junction of IA 5 and 92 south of Pleasantville, a year after the Pleasantville bypass opened and IA 5 was upgraded completely to four lanes between I-35 and Knoxville.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Knoxville Journal-Express<\/em> had a &#8220;from the archives&#8221; bit for Jan. 13, and it mentioned a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalexpress.net\/news\/local_news\/pages-from-the-past-jan\/article_ebdf2f74-0754-58ce-b1d7-1907bd3c5280.html\">meeting about the Pleasantville bypass 25 years ago<\/a> \u2014 in 1992. The highway wouldn&#8217;t be upgraded for another 11 years beyond that, with the bypass finally opening in fall 2003. The &#8220;community was concerned,&#8221; the recap mentions, but it&#8217;s hard telling whether it was that or plain old bureaucracy that caused the delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 8, 2004: Northbound former IA 181 at the junction of IA 5 and 92 south of Pleasantville, a year after the Pleasantville bypass opened and IA 5 was upgraded completely to four lanes between I-35 and Knoxville. The Knoxville &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-long-wait-for-pleasantville\/\">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-8271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271","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=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8273,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions\/8273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}