{"id":665940,"date":"2026-05-13T04:50:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665940\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:50:30","slug":"granville-street-bridge-closed-in-both-directions-due-to-ongoing-police-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665940\/","title":{"rendered":"Granville Street Bridge closed in both directions due to &#8220;ongoing police incident&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Granville Street Bridge remains closed in both directions Tuesday evening due to an \u201congoing police incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is urging people to \u201cavoid the area and consider alternate routes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VanTraffic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#VanTraffic<\/a>: Granville Street Bridge closed both ways due to an ongoing police incident. Please avoid the area and consider alternate routes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wmdgVqAUfV\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wmdgVqAUfV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VancouverPD\/status\/2054330576266809438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several TransLink bus routes are being rerouted until the bridge reopens.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RiderAlert?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RiderAlert<\/a> 44 Downtown\/UBC is experiencing delays as of 4:10 PM due to a police incident on the Granville St Bridge. ^sp<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TransLink BC (@TransLink) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TransLink\/status\/2054342793896558910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 12, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Granville Street Bridge remains closed in both directions Tuesday evening due to an \u201congoing police incident\u201d. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-665940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}