{"id":5854,"date":"2015-03-05T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2015-03-02T01:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T07:15:59","slug":"plans-for-us-30-in-benton-county-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/plans-for-us-30-in-benton-county-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for US 30 in Benton County advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As reported almost three weeks ago by the <em>Cedar Valley Daily Times<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitynewspapergroup.com\/vinton_newspapers\/features\/article_50dea61c-b388-11e4-bbe2-233113e887d5.html \">DOT engineers favor an interchange<\/a> over a J-turn for US 30\/218 in Benton County. The ramps in the northwest and southeast corners of the intersection-turned-interchange will preserve both Youngville Station and a cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December, the DOT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.iowadot.gov\/pim\/2014\/12\/us-30-in-tama-and-benton-counties-dec-10-2014.html\">released another ton of PDFs<\/a>\u00a0about four-laning 30 in the rest of Benton County, plus an interchange with IA 21. This four-lane segment ends at Salt Creek just inside Tama County.<\/p>\n<p>A change from previous plans is that now the entire four-lane will be located just to the <em>south<\/em> of the existing two-lane. It&#8217;s much like the plans for US 20 in Woodbury County, where the road that runs precisely along the section line will be obliterated in favor of an all-new roadbed constructed for heavier traffic. On the micro\/nit-picking level, the shift means another 12 miles of the original Lincoln Highway route will be removed forever.<\/p>\n<p>These plans have been discussed and refined for years, but construction will not occur until sometime in the 2020s at the earliest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported almost three weeks ago by the Cedar Valley Daily Times, DOT engineers favor an interchange over a J-turn for US 30\/218 in Benton County. The ramps in the northwest and southeast corners of the intersection-turned-interchange will preserve both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/plans-for-us-30-in-benton-county-advance\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","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=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}