{"id":9650,"date":"2018-02-07T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9650"},"modified":"2018-02-06T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:44:25","slug":"animated-annual-report-for-council-bluffs-interstate-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/animated-annual-report-for-council-bluffs-interstate-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated annual report for Council Bluffs interstate project"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Iowa DOT has put out its review of the 2017 construction season<\/a> for the Council Bluffs interstate project. A lot has been done, but there is so much more to go.<\/p>\n

The biggest development was the opening of the new connection from westbound 80 to westbound 29\/80 on the east side of Council Bluffs. That made the exit to southbound 29 a right exit and also relocated the South Expressway (former IA 192) exit to a point inside the interchange. Check out the “virtual ribbon cutting”<\/a> for this interchange component.<\/p>\n

There’s one thing that report doesn’t cover that I found elsewhere: A “constructability review” regarding the I-29\/I-480 interchange, something not expected to start for nearly two more years. The meeting in June<\/a> brought up the possibility of shutting down I-29 entirely to build this system. What’s not clear to me in the discussion is if it’s about shutting down I-29 between I-480 and I-80, or the whole thing farther north as well. Theoretically, all I-29 traffic could be dumped on\/off of North 16th Street (way to take that off the state’s hands, CB), but an alternative using only<\/em>\u00a0state roads involves surface-street US 75 through North Omaha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iowa DOT has put out its review of the 2017 construction season for the Council Bluffs interstate project. A lot has been done, but there is so much more to go. The biggest development was the opening of the … Continue reading →<\/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-9650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650","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=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9651,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions\/9651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}