{"id":9381,"date":"2017-11-28T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9381"},"modified":"2017-12-08T00:58:44","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T06:58:44","slug":"grandview-bypass-opened-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/grandview-bypass-opened-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandview bypass opened last week &#8211; UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Muscatine Journal<\/em>&#8216;s coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/muscatinejournal.com\/muscatine\/news\/local\/louisa-county-board-approves-design-contract-for-highway-bridge\/article_e5b4b014-e78d-5758-84be-a2a7c9a31217.html\">Louisa County Board of Supervisors earlier this month<\/a> had a single paragraph mentioning that US 61 from the county line to 130th Street was expected to open Nov. 20. The new four-lane includes interchanges <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia252.html\">at IA 92<\/a> and at Louisa-Muscatine High School.<\/p>\n<p>If it indeed has opened \u2014 and given the decent weather and customary Thanksgiving deadline, no reason it wouldn&#8217;t \u2014 it would have been nice to have a notice about it.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal story was mostly about replacing the bridge for the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia99.html\">former IA 99<\/a> across the Iowa River east of Wapello.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Jason Hancock, keeping an eye on traffic cameras set up along the new alignment, says it did not open until Dec. 1. This continues the nearly uninterrupted streak of a four-lane segment opening somewhere in Iowa every year for 60 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Muscatine Journal&#8216;s coverage of the Louisa County Board of Supervisors earlier this month had a single paragraph mentioning that US 61 from the county line to 130th Street was expected to open Nov. 20. The new four-lane includes interchanges &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/grandview-bypass-opened-last-week\/\">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-9381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381","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=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9438,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions\/9438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}