{"id":1450,"date":"2009-12-30T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/30\/massena-another-north-country-bridge-crippled\/"},"modified":"2009-12-30T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T14:47:00","slug":"massena-another-north-country-bridge-crippled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/12\/30\/massena-another-north-country-bridge-crippled\/","title":{"rendered":"Massena: Another North Country bridge crippled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State officials have announced that traffic on another bridge in the region is being restricted because of safety concerns.  Here&#8217;s the announcement issued a few minutes ago:<br \/><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\">The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) has reduced the Route 37B bridge over the Grasse River in Massena to one travel lane in each direction due to results of a recent inspection.<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><span><\/span>The Department is removing the outer lanes from service as a safety precaution while engineering evaluations take place.<span>  <\/span>One travel lane in each direction will be maintained, along with shoulders.<span>  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:100%\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><span><\/span>The deterioration is localized to the outermost portions of the structure as those are continually exposed to the elements.<span>  <\/span>The interior structural bays of the bridges are in good condition.<span>  <\/span>Signs have been erected notifying motorists of the lane closures.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-align: justify\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman\">Along with the Crown Point and Batchellerville bridges, this is another reminder that we face an infrastructure crisis. <br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State officials have announced that traffic on another bridge in the region is being restricted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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\/1450"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}