{"id":9406,"date":"2017-12-01T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9406"},"modified":"2017-11-30T00:44:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T06:44:50","slug":"dot-wants-us-30-interchange-at-r70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/dot-wants-us-30-interchange-at-r70\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT wants US 30 interchange at R70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, the DOT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2017\/11\/us-30-story-county-dec-5.html\">will hold a meeting in Ames<\/a> about closing off intersections on US 30 just east of I-35 in favor of an interchange. Substantial lengths of frontage road will have to be built in order to serve existing locations.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/120517US30StoryPD.pdf\">large map (PDF)<\/a> shows an interchange at 580th Avenue, otherwise known as County Road R70. It&#8217;s mislabeled as 580th Street <a href=\"https:\/\/iowadot.gov\/pim\/documents\/120517US30StoryHandout.pdf\">on the smaller handout<\/a>. This project would close 590th Avenue at Vetter Equipment Company, something the Story County supervisors <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/story-county-opposes-closing-us-30-intersections\/\">opposed two years ago<\/a>. Traffic from the west heading to Vetter would have to go past it, take the new exit, and come back east on the new road a quarter-mile north. This project would not affect at-grade intersections closer to Nevada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Tuesday, the DOT will hold a meeting in Ames about closing off intersections on US 30 just east of I-35 in favor of an interchange. Substantial lengths of frontage road will have to be built in order to serve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/dot-wants-us-30-interchange-at-r70\/\">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-9406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406","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=9406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9407,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9406\/revisions\/9407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}