{"id":34872,"date":"2019-12-12T14:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/?p=34872"},"modified":"2019-12-15T11:16:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T16:16:56","slug":"updates-12-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/updates-12-12-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates December 12-14, 2019 – Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Website updates starting late last week and continuing to December 12 have focused on our long backlog of photos throughout the state of Iowa.<\/p>\n

The bulk of the site content focused on eastern Iowa, with several daytrips originating from the Quad Cities. Decided to expand westward starting with Interstate 80<\/a>, which now has 2013-16 photo coverage from West Des Moines eastward<\/a> and westward to the South Mixmaster Interchange<\/a> where I-35\/80 meet I-235 and part ways.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Continuing with Interstate pages for Iowa, finally posted everything we have for Interstate 35<\/a>. Northbound coverage from June 2015 extends from the Missouri line to I-235 at West Des Moines, when a major reconstruction project was underway through Warren County where a new northbound roadway was built. Southbound content from Minnesota to Franklin County goes all the way back to 2007 (something is better than nothing at this point). Also covered I-35 in both directions throughout the Des Moines area with photos from April 2013 and March 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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When we first drove Interstate 235<\/a> in 2005, the Rebuilding I-235 project was underway throughout the Des Moines city limits. Similar to the New I-64 reconstruction through St. Louis, where the urban freeway was modernized, I-235 through the capital city was overhauled with new ramp systems and additional lanes. While making it a point to redocument I-235 back in 2013, the photos were not posted on the site until now.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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US 34 east briefly overlaps with US 65 at Lucas, Iowa. 03\/30\/16<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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US 63 enters Ottumwa from the south and combines with US 34 across the Des Moines River. 03\/30\/16<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Shifting to some of the many U.S. highways throughout the Hawkeye State, added new pages for U.S. 34, 63<\/a>, 65<\/a>, 69<\/a> and U.S. 34 Business<\/a> in Ottumwa. The guide for U.S. 34<\/a> includes all of eastbound from the Missouri River Bridge to Chariton and a portion of the route in Ottumwa. Will add photos covering U.S. 34 east from Ottumwa to Burlington next.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Also finished adding photos from a March 2016 trip taken with Bill Gatchel along U.S. 61<\/a> southbound and U.S. 218<\/a> northbound. New pages cover U.S. 61 south from Muscatine to Fort Madison and guides for U.S. 218 north were updated from Donnellson to Iowa City.<\/p>\n

Had the opportunity to drive U.S. 151 Business across Cedar Rapids and Marion last year, and posted those photos on a new page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Iowa 5’s northern terminus at I-35 in West Des Moines, Iowa. 03\/28\/16<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Created new pages for Iowa 2<\/a> and Iowa 5<\/a> with photos of the freeway through West Des Moines and Des Moines. Added May 2018 photos for the Iowa 38<\/a> and 130<\/a> guides in the eastern part of the state.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

12\/14 updates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Added pages for Iowa 14<\/a>, 137<\/a>, 148<\/a>, 149<\/a> and 163<\/a><\/p>\n

Expanded U.S. 34 coverage with eastbound pages from Ottumwa<\/a> to Burlington<\/a> and U.S. 20 west<\/a> from to I-380 near Waterloo.<\/p>\n

Created a guide for U.S. 34 in Illinois<\/a> with photos westbound from Monmouth to the Great River Bridge and eastbound at Gulfport.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,247,1341],"tags":[536,477,1337],"class_list":["post-34872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illinois","category-iowa","category-updates","tag-illinois","tag-iowa","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaroads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}