{"id":34774,"date":"2015-08-27T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T21:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=34774"},"modified":"2015-08-27T16:26:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T21:26:53","slug":"sept-14-is-closure-date-for-merrittville-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/08\/sept-14-is-closure-date-for-merrittville-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 14 is closure date for Merrittville Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34776\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34776\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34776\" title=\"merrittville-hwy-aerial\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/merrittville-hwy-aerial-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Power Canal Bridge and causeways on Merrittville Highway.\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power Canal Bridge and causeways on Merrittville Highway.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Niagara Region has announced a Sept. 14 closure date for Merrittville Highway, as workers begin a lengthy project to replace the old steel bridge over Lake Gibson.<\/p>\n<p>Merrittville Highway between Decew Road and Beaverdams Road is expected to remain closed until August 2016, except to local residents and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Crews will replace the narrow steel-truss span \u2014 officially known as Power Canal Bridge \u2014 and also widen the causeways at either end of it. The result will be 3.5-metre vehicle lanes as well as bicycle lanes in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>During the closure, traffic will be detoured along Beaverdams Road (Regional Road 67), St. Davids Road (Regional Road 71) and Collier Road (Regional Road 56).<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with questions or concerns about the project should contact the Region&#8217;s consultant, Christian Concolino at 905 346-0990 ext 286; or Jason Marr, the senior transportation project engineer at 905 980-6000 ext 3552.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niagara Region has announced a Sept. 14 closure date for Merrittville Highway, as workers begin a lengthy project to replace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":34776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34778,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions\/34778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}