{"id":15333,"date":"2024-01-05T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T16:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15333"},"modified":"2024-01-05T00:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T06:10:33","slug":"ia-150-corridor-gets-intense-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/ia-150-corridor-gets-intense-review\/","title":{"rendered":"IA 150 corridor gets intense review"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Iowa DOT has undertaken a comprehensive review of IA 150 between Urbana and Oelwein that would upgrade the highway to Super-2 status. This is similar to what it did for US 63 between US 6 and Hudson<\/a>. Here’s a direct link to the PDF.<\/a><\/p>\n

The key part of the study is how to handle the route in Independence. The two-block east-west jog has been there since either the beginning or shortly thereafter. Early documents show a bridge across the Wapsipinicon River to the east, with a new crossing at the site of the present one, but city detail is unavailable.<\/p>\n

The two alternatives under consideration are a “box” of one-way streets that would change 1st Street to one-way eastbound and 2nd Street NE to one-way westbound, or retaining 1st Street as two-way but signing that only as northbound 150 and moving southbound 150 a block north to 2nd Street NE.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere along the corridor, there are segments noted where passing lanes would be beneficial, in addition to dedicated or extended turn lanes.<\/p>\n

(Well, how about that. The Iowa DOT Docs site changed a bit since visiting it last, which admittedly was months ago, for obvious reasons.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iowa DOT has undertaken a comprehensive review of IA 150 between Urbana and Oelwein that would upgrade the highway to Super-2 status. This is similar to what it did for US 63 between US 6 and Hudson. Here’s a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15334,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15333\/revisions\/15334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}