Two out of three lanes have been closed in both directions to allow emergency repairs to take place.<\/p>\n
National highways revealed that work is being done on the lighting columns after identifying an immediate risk that could cause a collapse.<\/p>\n
In a statement, they added: “There are severe delays approaching the M4 Prince Of Wales Bridge in both directions due to emergency roadworks.<\/p>\n
“2 lanes of 3 have had to be closed in both directions for safety reasons, awaiting emergency repairs to a number of lamp columns.<\/p>\n
“This is due to urgent safety inspections of lighting columns on the bridge, which have identified an immediate risk.<\/p>\n
“Testing found several columns in need of immediate removal due to the risk of collapse.<\/p>\n
“However, we have to wait for the high winds to subside before work can take place. We appreciate your patience while we complete this vital safety work.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two out of three lanes have been closed in both directions to allow emergency repairs to take place.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,1562,122852,122851,70114,43028,50,122853,1561,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-307375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-m4","tag-m4-crash","tag-m4-delays","tag-m4-traffic","tag-motorway","tag-news","tag-prince-of-wales-bridge-severn-bridge","tag-traffic-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}