{"id":4917,"date":"2014-05-27T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2014-05-27T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:39:17","slug":"diverging-diamond-interchange-in-urbandale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/diverging-diamond-interchange-in-urbandale\/","title":{"rendered":"Diverging diamond interchange in Urbandale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcci.com\/news\/new-intersection-design-planned-for-major-metro-roads\/26146940?absolute=true\">KCCI has a story about a DOT study<\/a> on turning the I-35\/80 interchange with Hickman Road (US 6) from a diamond to a diverging diamond. On a diverging diamond, traffic temporarily switches sides of the road; there&#8217;s an explainer graphic in the video. All the interviews are with city officials, so that may be where the TV station got wind of what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<p>While the state hasn&#8217;t announced any plans for a diverging diamond at Hickman specifically, there <em>are<\/em> two others coming to the Des Moines metro area: One in Dallas County on the &#8220;Grand Prairie Parkway&#8221; (Alice&#8217;s Road extension) and one at First Street in Ankeny. The latter will be part of six-laning I-35 from that point north to the new Ankeny exit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KCCI has a story about a DOT study on turning the I-35\/80 interchange with Hickman Road (US 6) from a diamond to a diverging diamond. On a diverging diamond, traffic temporarily switches sides of the road; there&#8217;s an explainer graphic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/diverging-diamond-interchange-in-urbandale\/\">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":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4919,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}