{"id":6117,"date":"2015-05-19T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2015-05-18T00:16:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T05:16:22","slug":"urbana-ia-150-curve-will-be-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/urbana-ia-150-curve-will-be-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbana IA 150 curve will be removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/May03\/150_363_nb.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"245\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>May 20, 2003:<\/strong> The curve seen here heading left (north) will be removed in 2018. In the decade since IA 363&#8217;s decommissioning, the ex-state highway has only been known by its county and city names, 55th Street and Sunset Street.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Iowa DOT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/subject\/news\/iowa-dot-to-remove-highway-150-curve-at-fatal-crash-site-20150513\">will remove the large curve<\/a> of IA 150 west of Urbana, at <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/ends\/ia363.html\">former IA 363&#8217;s west end<\/a>, after a two-vehicle collision resulted in the deaths of five people earlier this year. The four-way intersection near the curve will become the main intersection. Construction ($1.5 million) has a target period of fiscal 2018, although this was <em>not<\/em> included in the draft five-year plan released earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The DOT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintoniowa.org\/media\/files\/Urbana_Curve_5-1-15_Project_Review.pdf\">released a 7-page study after the accident<\/a> (link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintoniowa.org\/articles\/News\/article1014776.html\">Vinton Today website<\/a>). Three-quarters of the traffic at the intersection runs east-west, heading to\/from I-380. Southbound IA 150 will stop and northbound 150 will have a left turn. (The headline below is incorrect; it is not an S-curve.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 20, 2003: The curve seen here heading left (north) will be removed in 2018. In the decade since IA 363&#8217;s decommissioning, the ex-state highway has only been known by its county and city names, 55th Street and Sunset Street. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/urbana-ia-150-curve-will-be-removed\/\">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-6117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117","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=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6130,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}