{"id":9740,"date":"2018-03-14T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9740"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:10:05","slug":"roundabouts-to-be-inflicted-on-urban-lincoln-highway-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/roundabouts-to-be-inflicted-on-urban-lincoln-highway-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundabouts to be inflicted on urban Lincoln Highway segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson Avenue in western Cedar Rapids <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighways.org\/highways\/cedarrapids.html\">carried the Lincoln Highway<\/a>, and then US 30, until 1940. Back then, it was outside the city. Nowadays, it&#8217;s a minor urban arterial that&#8217;s about to be reduced in capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The city of Cedar Rapids is using Johnson Avenue as a guinea pig in a &#8220;complete streets&#8221; program. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/johnson-avenue-nw-corridor-proving-ground-for-modern-traffic-tools-20180306\">According to the <em>Gazette<\/em><\/a>, the street will be reduced to two lanes with bike lanes and have roundabouts at Wiley Boulevard and Jacolyn Drive. There&#8217;s a cost savings in the change; the Wiley roundabout will be $91,000 less than having a stoplight, the story says.<\/p>\n<p>There are other roads in the city where one or both of those things are going to be done to them, too (see list at link).<\/p>\n<p>As far as I know, this is the <del>first<\/del> second time roundabouts have been installed on any era of Lincoln Highway alignment in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 4\/16: Marion&#8217;s new roundabouts on either end of downtown put one on the 1913 route (now part of a loop) \u2014 the west one at 7th Avenue and 7th Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnson Avenue in western Cedar Rapids carried the Lincoln Highway, and then US 30, until 1940. Back then, it was outside the city. Nowadays, it&#8217;s a minor urban arterial that&#8217;s about to be reduced in capacity. The city of Cedar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/roundabouts-to-be-inflicted-on-urban-lincoln-highway-segment\/\">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-9740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740","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=9740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9869,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9740\/revisions\/9869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}