{"id":8700,"date":"2017-05-04T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2017-05-02T01:56:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T06:56:36","slug":"council-bluffs-2017-construction-preview-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/council-bluffs-2017-construction-preview-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Council Bluffs 2017 construction preview online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8701\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CB_buttoncopy1.jpg\" width=\"462\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CB_buttoncopy1.jpg 462w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/CB_buttoncopy1-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>April 19, 2017:<\/strong> This sign, and the one beside it, are the oldest existing and last button-copy BGSs in Iowa. By the end of the year, the whole thing will be gone when a new alignment for westbound I-80 as it joins I-29 opens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Iowa DOT&#8217;s dedicated website for the Council Bluffs Interstate System project has an <a href=\"http:\/\/councilbluffsinterstate.iowadot.gov\/2017preconstructiononlinemeeting\/\">&#8220;online meeting&#8221; in the form of a slideshow<\/a>. Many of the slides have short videos. What we&#8217;ll see in the coming construction season includes eastbound I-80 express lanes, although they won&#8217;t exist as such yet. The I-29\/I-480 interchange <a href=\"http:\/\/councilbluffsinterstate.iowadot.gov\/2017preconstructiononlinemeeting\/img\/boards\/design.pdf\"><em>still<\/em> has two plans under consideration<\/a> (PDF), all of which will involve either permanent closure of nearby partial interchanges or incorporation of them into frontage roads. That won&#8217;t even get under construction until the next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 19, 2017: This sign, and the one beside it, are the oldest existing and last button-copy BGSs in Iowa. By the end of the year, the whole thing will be gone when a new alignment for westbound I-80 as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/council-bluffs-2017-construction-preview-online\/\">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-8700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700","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=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8702,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions\/8702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}