{"id":9755,"date":"2018-03-15T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9755"},"modified":"2018-03-12T01:14:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T06:14:45","slug":"missouri-valley-bypass-idea-is-way-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/missouri-valley-bypass-idea-is-way-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Valley bypass idea is WAY out there"},"content":{"rendered":"

A DOT public meeting earlier this week<\/a> (postponed from earlier because of bad weather) laid out two “study areas” for a US 30 bypass of Missouri Valley, and one of them is off the beaten path.<\/p>\n

Like, way off.<\/p>\n

Like, redirecting 30 from Logan westward to Modale<\/em><\/a> off.<\/p>\n

I can see why there’s an interest in moving 30 out of downtown Missouri Valley, but a bypass that far north would not help anyone. Assuming a new connection is not built southwestward from Modale, a LOT of drivers would choose to follow K45 to continue west, and that has quite a few curves on it. It simply does not make sense to divert 30 back southeast on I-29 to acquire the old route. Plus, that alignment would cut straight through part of the Loess Hills instead of following the Boyer River valley like 30 does today.<\/p>\n

A southern bypass makes way, way more sense. It’s close enough to the existing corridor that it wouldn’t be out of the way. Most of it would be in a floodplain (which, admittedly, has its own issues) and wouldn’t require knocking down many hills. Any bypass there would include two new railroad bridges.<\/p>\n

I think the blue route on this map<\/a> (PDF) is the way to go. For historical preservation purposes, it pulls “new 30” off a couple more miles of the original Lincoln Highway, but it also takes some kinks out, and the integrity of the road heading into Missouri Valley would remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A DOT public meeting earlier this week (postponed from earlier because of bad weather) laid out two “study areas” for a US 30 bypass of Missouri Valley, and one of them is off the beaten path. Like, way off. Like, … 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-9755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755","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=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9756,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions\/9756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}