{"id":208206,"date":"2026-07-24T20:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=208206"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:31:49","slug":"u-s-224-to-close-for-two-big-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/24\/u-s-224-to-close-for-two-big-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. 224 to close for two big projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Construction of Van Wert\u2019s second roundabout, along with another nearby project will begin soon, leading to a notable road closure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, July 31, is when the intersection of U.S. 224 and Lincoln Highway in Van Wert will close for the construction of a roundabout. The closure is expected to last approximately 60 days and will impact the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Sale, which is scheduled for August 13-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. 224 between U.S. 30 and Lincoln Highway will also close on July 31 for approximately 120 days for rehabiltation of the bridge over the railroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The official U.S. 224 detour for both projects will be U.S. 30 to Ohio 49, back to U.S. 224.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to those projects, Ohio 697 between the city of Delphos and Ohio 116 will close on Monday, July 27, for full-width paving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff Construction of Van Wert\u2019s second roundabout, along with another nearby project will begin soon, leading to a notable road closure. Friday, July 31, is when the intersection of U.S. 224 and Lincoln Highway in Van Wert will close for the construction of a roundabout. The closure is expected to last approximately 60 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 22:18:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208207,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208206\/revisions\/208207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}