{"id":29286,"date":"2025-09-18T09:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=29286"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:53:06","slug":"roundabout-opening-very-very-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/roundabout-opening-very-very-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundabout opening \u201cvery, very close\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It won&#8217;t be long now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decatur&#8217;s famous \u2013 or infamous \u2013 roundabout is \u201cgetting very, very close\u201d to opening, Operations Manager Jeremy Gilbert told city council Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A progress meeting is set for Thursday, bringing together all factions involved in the project, Gilbert said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo stay tuned,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rounabout-signs.jpg?resize=479%2C187&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rounabout-signs.jpg?w=479&amp;ssl=1 479w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rounabout-signs.jpg?resize=300%2C117&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Landscaping in the area was to be finished Tuesday or Wednesday of this week, and light poles were about to go up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The $2.5 million project is now in its fourth month, having begun the first week in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E&amp;B Paving of Muncie is the general contractor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last July 6 marked one year since the City of Decatur and INDOT officials signed all the necessary papers and made the project official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work is being overseen by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) and mostly funded by the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com It won&#8217;t be long now! Decatur&#8217;s famous \u2013 or infamous \u2013 roundabout is \u201cgetting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-29286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rounabout-signs.jpg?fit=479%2C187&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29288,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29286\/revisions\/29288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}