{"id":1286,"date":"2009-11-09T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/09\/crown-point-bridge-needs-to-be-replaced\/"},"modified":"2009-11-09T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T20:12:00","slug":"crown-point-bridge-needs-to-be-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/11\/09\/crown-point-bridge-needs-to-be-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown Point bridge needs to be replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Paterson&#8217;s office just sent out <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.gov\/governor\/press\/press_1109092.html\">this release<\/a>.  Brian Mann is at a public meeting today and will have more on All Before Five and The 8 O&#8217;Clock Hour.  Here&#8217;s the heart of the matter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An underwater inspection of the bridge\u2019s concrete  piers and underlying foundations found cracks and significant deterioration in  the unreinforced concrete substructures well below the water level that render  these supports so fragile that a sudden collapse could  occur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSafety was our primary  concern when we closed the Lake Champlain Bridge last month and it is our chief  interest now,\u201d Governor Paterson said. \u201cWe must make a decision that protects  those who cross the bridge, as well as workers and engineers, and therefore we  have no choice but to tear down the dangerously deteriorated bridge. Both states  are committed to moving quickly to reestablish the critical link by building a  new bridge in this corridor to serve commuters, farms and  businesses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Paterson&#8217;s office just sent out this release. Brian Mann is at a public meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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\/1286"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}