{"id":15962,"date":"2025-07-17T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:53:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T23:53:28","slug":"turn-turn-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/turn-turn-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn, turn, turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/May03\/30_279_wb.jpg\" width=\"327\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>May 30, 2003:<\/strong> The standard right-turn lane to Atkins is no longer sufficient for traffic needs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From the category of &#8220;construction projects that should have happened a decade ago but didn&#8217;t,&#8221; there are two little ones that could provide big relief.<\/p>\n<p>First, a LONG right-turn lane is being built on US 30\/218 at the Atkins corner (<a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia279.html\">old IA 279<\/a>). Atkins has become a bedroom community for Cedar Rapids and there is a lot of traffic returning at the end of the day. Now if E Avenue could get paved from Atkins east to IA 100, that would be an improvement as well.<\/p>\n<p>Second, a right-turn lane is being built in Dysart from eastbound IA 8\/21 to southbound IA 21. It&#8217;s extraordinarily odd\/stupid that one has never been built, especially since that&#8217;s the flow of IA 21. Its emergence now, I think, is for a better connection to US 30. Drivers that otherwise went through Vinton to get to 30 and avoid the two-lane west of there, myself included, can now go down 21 to pick up the four-lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 30, 2003: The standard right-turn lane to Atkins is no longer sufficient for traffic needs. From the category of &#8220;construction projects that should have happened a decade ago but didn&#8217;t,&#8221; there are two little ones that could provide big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/turn-turn-turn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-15962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962","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=15962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15963,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15962\/revisions\/15963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}