{"id":8617,"date":"2017-04-06T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8617"},"modified":"2017-04-05T01:35:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T06:35:50","slug":"finally-a-plan-to-six-lane-i-35-to-ames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/finally-a-plan-to-six-lane-i-35-to-ames\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, a plan to six-lane I-35 to Ames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday in Huxley, the DOT will have a meeting about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2017\/03\/i-35-polkstory-counties-april-11.html\">project that&#8217;s at least 10 and probably 20 years overdue<\/a> \u2014 upgrading I-35 to six lanes between Ankeny and Ames. This would be the first rural six-lane interstate in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, the existing northbound lanes would be the new median. I suppose the new northbound lanes will be built, traffic shifted, and southbound lanes moved on to the old northbound lanes while the new southbound lanes are built. It&#8217;s a 16-mile segment but there are only two interchanges involved (the Elkhart exit and IA 210).<\/p>\n<p>This is <em>not<\/em> in the five-year plan; it&#8217;s going to be a decade out still. What <em>is<\/em> in the five-year plan is six-laning I-35 between Oralabor Road and the new exit on the north side of Ankeny, which won&#8217;t be done until 2020; converting the I-35\/US 30 pure cloverleaf into an interchange with flyover ramps, which are dotted out on the plans linked above; and the replacement of Skunk River bridges just south of 30, which would be built with the six-lane in mind. The only other place Iowa has planned that far ahead is at I-80 over the Cedar River.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday in Huxley, the DOT will have a meeting about a project that&#8217;s at least 10 and probably 20 years overdue \u2014 upgrading I-35 to six lanes between Ankeny and Ames. This would be the first rural six-lane interstate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/04\/finally-a-plan-to-six-lane-i-35-to-ames\/\">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-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617","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=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8618,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}