{"id":1162,"date":"2009-10-21T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/21\/disaster-declaration-for-communities-around-crown-point-bridge\/"},"modified":"2009-10-21T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T17:25:00","slug":"disaster-declaration-for-communities-around-crown-point-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/21\/disaster-declaration-for-communities-around-crown-point-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster declaration for communities around Crown Point bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor David Paterson declared a disaster in communities disrupted by Friday&#8217;s surprising shut down of the Champlain Bridge, linking Crown Point, NY and Addison, VT. Both states own the bridge. Vermont officials declared an emergency for these communities Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Paterson says his declaration is meant to speed repairs and direct more state and federal money to residents and businesses taking an economic hit.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge was closed unexpectedly Friday, when engineers determined the structure had deteriorated to such a degree that it could collapse into Lake Champlain.<\/p>\n<p>Transportation officials say they&#8217;re considering temporary fixes for the thousands of people who use the bridge to commute each day to work.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press reports that ferry subsidies and a pontoon bridge are being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to All Before Five this afternoon for more on the Crown Point bridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor David Paterson declared a disaster in communities disrupted by Friday&#8217;s surprising shut down of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}