{"id":793034,"date":"2026-10-05T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793034\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:20:16","slug":"winterstoke-road-bridge-in-weston-opening-delayed-after-heatwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/793034\/","title":{"rendered":"Winterstoke Road Bridge in Weston opening delayed after heatwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The replacement of a key 85-year-old bridge which has been shut since 2025 has been delayed due to the summer&#8217;s heatwaves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Winterstoke Road Bridge, a key transport link through Weston-super-Mare, was supposed to reopen to traffic in the summer of 2027, however North Somerset Council said this has been delayed to early 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The delay to the new \u00a311m bridge, which closed to traffic in November 2025, was caused by the summer&#8217;s persistent hot weather sparking safety concerns for the railway track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">North Somerset Council leader Mike Bell apologised for the delay, adding the council&#8217;s priority &#8220;is to get the route open to vehicles as early as possible&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The replacement of a key 85-year-old bridge which has been shut since 2025 has been delayed due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-793034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793034","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=793034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}