{"id":50698,"date":"2021-07-14T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/south-216th-street-in-des-moines-to-close-for-light-rail-work\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T21:22:38","slug":"south-216th-street-in-des-moines-to-close-for-light-rail-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/south-216th-street-in-des-moines-to-close-for-light-rail-work\/","title":{"rendered":"South 216th Street in Des Moines to close for light rail work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews working on the Federal Way Link Extension will close a portion of <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/unMg7R45W6fgnpyAA\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South 216th Street in Des Moines\/SeaTac<\/a> to build a tunnel structure on the west side of Interstate 5 which will allow light rail trains to travel under the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The road will be closed from July 19 through Aug. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Access for local residents will be maintained during the closure. Drivers heading west on 216th will be detoured south on Military Road, then west on Kent\/Des Moines Road and then north on State Route 99. Drivers heading east on 216th will be detoured south on State Route 99, east on Kent\/Des Moines Road and then north on Military Road.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Way Link Extension will open for service in 2024 between Federal Way and Angle Lake in SeaTac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local access only between Highway 99 and Military Road South <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":50699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-50698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50698"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=50698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}