{"id":216575,"date":"2026-03-12T15:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216575\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:42:10","slug":"klondyke-road-paving-begins-in-long-beach-lane-closures-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216575\/","title":{"rendered":"Klondyke Road paving begins in Long Beach, lane closures expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; Long Beach officials say road improvements are underway on Klondyke Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Crews will be working on milling and paving from Old Pass Road to LaRosa Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The road work began on Wednesday, with paving scheduled to start Friday, March 13, and continue Monday, March 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mayor Tim Pierce said the corridor was identified as a priority during a citywide road assessment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhen we did the analysis on the roads that needed paving in Long Beach, that one ranked kind of high,\u201d Pierce said. \u201cWe figured we\u2019d go ahead and cut that stretch out and go ahead and get it paved. Hopefully, it\u2019ll promote more business in that corridor as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Construction crews working on a paving project on Klondyke Road. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ZZ35W5TPTVALPCAXDQ2L2DGSKE.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Construction crews working on a paving project on Klondyke Road. (WLOX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During construction, drivers should expect lane closures and possible delays. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Drivers are urged to use caution and allow extra travel time through the work zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) &#8211; Long Beach officials say road improvements are underway on Klondyke Road. Crews will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[757,4019,99405,99407,131,133,132,8098,99406,89698,99408],"class_list":["post-216575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-closures","tag-construction","tag-klondyke-road","tag-larosa-road","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-mayor-tim-pierce","tag-old-pass-road","tag-paving","tag-road-assessment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}