{"id":8377,"date":"2017-02-23T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2017-02-21T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T00:19:10","slug":"m-avenue-bridges-near-traer-to-be-replaced-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/m-avenue-bridges-near-traer-to-be-replaced-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"M Avenue bridges near Traer to be replaced in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8378\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MAvenueBridgeN.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MAvenueBridgeN.jpg 640w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/MAvenueBridgeN-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>October 30, 2015:<\/strong> The northern of two 1915 bridges on M Avenue, border between Crystal and Perry townships, across Four Mile Creek (which is longer than that). The southern bridge is across Wolf Creek.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hyper, hyper, hyper-local. \u2014 Ed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two century-old pony truss bridges on gravel M Avenue north of US 63 are scheduled to be replaced in 2018. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tamatoledonews.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/551817\/Supervisors-approve-Tama-County-5-Year-Road-Plan.html?nav=5006\">coverage from last year<\/a> about the approval of the five-year plan.<\/p>\n<p>This has been on the Tama County supervisors&#8217; plan for a while, and while I was waiting for it to get closer since project times can be moved, there&#8217;s another hook for this blog post: The two bridges are among the thousands marked in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/national\/structurally-deficient-bridges\/\">nationwide interactive graphic<\/a> from the <em>Washington Post<\/em> of structurally deficient bridges. Iowa had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nonpareilonline.com\/news\/local\/report-iowa-has-most-deficient-bridges-in-country\/article_9610d2ee-dac6-5b8f-8281-80c608ffd988.html\">most deficient bridges of any state in 2016<\/a>, according to a report from the American Road &amp; Transportation Builders Association (mentioned in a <em>Council Bluffs Nonpareil<\/em> article).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 30, 2015: The northern of two 1915 bridges on M Avenue, border between Crystal and Perry townships, across Four Mile Creek (which is longer than that). The southern bridge is across Wolf Creek. Hyper, hyper, hyper-local. \u2014 Ed. Two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/m-avenue-bridges-near-traer-to-be-replaced-in-2018\/\">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":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8377","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\/8377","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=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8380,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions\/8380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}