{"id":8396,"date":"2017-03-10T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8396"},"modified":"2017-03-17T00:56:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T05:56:56","slug":"ia-175-interchange-reconstruction-meeting-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/ia-175-interchange-reconstruction-meeting-set\/","title":{"rendered":"IA 175 interchange reconstruction meeting set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa DOT will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2017\/02\/interstate-35-and-iowa-175-hamilton-county-march-14.html\">have a public meeting March 14<\/a> about converting the IA 175 interchange at Ellsworth from a folded diamond to a regular diamond. The original plan was designed for a railroad that&#8217;s not there anymore. Construction is scheduled for 2019. The plans show that Love&#8217;s Travel Stops owns the northwest quadrant now so there&#8217;s going to be a gas station\/truck stop there in the future.<\/p>\n<p>There are maps online at the link above, but they are HUGE. <em>Do not view them in your browser or it will lock up. <\/em>Download them instead.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: A reader told me the <a href=\"http:\/\/whotv.com\/2016\/12\/16\/loves-truck-stop-opens-in-ellsworth\/\">Love&#8217;s opened in December, along with a Hardee&#8217;s<\/a>. That&#8217;s the first Hardee&#8217;s in Iowa along I-35, the first fast-food place on I-35 south of Clear Lake, and the second fast-food (burger) place in Hamilton County (after the McDonald&#8217;s in Webster City).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iowa DOT will have a public meeting March 14 about converting the IA 175 interchange at Ellsworth from a folded diamond to a regular diamond. The original plan was designed for a railroad that&#8217;s not there anymore. Construction is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/ia-175-interchange-reconstruction-meeting-set\/\">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-8396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396","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=8396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8485,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}