{"id":9769,"date":"2018-03-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9769"},"modified":"2018-10-14T02:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T07:19:34","slug":"analysis-of-2018-ragbrai-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/analysis-of-2018-ragbrai-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of 2018 RAGBRAI map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9787\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StCenterPoleRagbrai.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StCenterPoleRagbrai.jpg 600w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/StCenterPoleRagbrai-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>July 23, 2008:<\/strong> RAGBRAI passed through the center of Iowa (well, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/maps\/geoctr.html\">close enough<\/a>) in 2008 and will again this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/news\/2018\/03\/17\/ragbrai-route-passing-through-wacky-small-towns\/424116002\/\">The Register&#8217;s preview <\/a>appears to be trying to tell me something.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you can locate Ute, Aspinwall, Dana, Peoria and Harper on a map, you should launch a candidacy for statewide office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*clears throat, raises hand*<\/p>\n<p>If nominated, I will not run; if elected, well, you&#8217;ve done worse.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Register switched to releasing daily maps on the RAGBRAI website, there&#8217;s been a little less of the history invoked in the main route stories. This route passes through five towns that have never been on it before, and despite being a short central route travels some roads that haven&#8217;t been used either ever or recently.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Towns RAGBRAI has never been to but will hit in 2018 are Aspinwall, New Sharon (on the century loop aka Karras Loop), Wellman, Kalona, and Blue Grass.<\/li>\n<li>Towns not visited in the last 30 years are Soldier (1987), Moorhead (1981) (gravel loop this time),\u00a0Ute (1987), Charter Oak (1987), Melbourne (1976), Harper (1986) and Keota (1986).<\/li>\n<li>Given the map, if Lambs Grove ends up on the route, the ride will pass through 46 incorporated places including 2 on the loops.<\/li>\n<li>Parts of the Lincoln Highway in Greene, Boone, Story, and Marshall counties will be followed. The segments from Scranton to Boone and Ames to State Center repeat 2008.<\/li>\n<li>Segments RAGBRAI has never used before: IA 141 through Aspinwall, through Ledges State Park, the roads in the Karras Loop, Keota to Riverside (mainly IA 22), and Wilton to just north of Blue Grass.<\/li>\n<li>Bettendorf gets stiffed AGAIN. This is just mean. The city should lobby hard to be the endpoint in 2022, after the I-74 bridge is completed. The cycle would be just right.<\/li>\n<li>Because the ride passes through Kalona this year, Traer is now the <em>second<\/em>-largest community not adjacent to a metro area that RAGBRAI has never been through, behind only Alta. (Alta&#8217;s been left out of FIVE separate Sioux-City-to-Storm-Lake segments; is the railroad crossing an issue?) Overall, Traer is the 12th-largest city completely unscathed by the pie-eating hordes, although there are five larger that haven&#8217;t seen riders in at least 30 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have updated <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ragbraitowns.html\">my RAGBRAI towns list<\/a> to include the 2018 list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 23, 2008: RAGBRAI passed through the center of Iowa (well, close enough) in 2008 and will again this year. The Register&#8217;s preview appears to be trying to tell me something. If you can locate Ute, Aspinwall, Dana, Peoria and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/analysis-of-2018-ragbrai-map\/\">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":[18,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769","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=9769"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10361,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9769\/revisions\/10361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}