{"id":255014,"date":"2026-04-07T02:28:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:28:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:28:51","slug":"downtown-bakersfield-road-project-brings-closures-to-18th-and-19th-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255014\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Bakersfield road project brings closures to 18th and 19th streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A long-term corridor improvement project begins today in downtown Bakersfield, bringing temporary road closures and traffic impacts that are expected to last through the fall.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Bakersfield said 18th and 19th streets between L and O streets will experience temporary closures starting today. The work is expected to continue through Oct. 31 with detours in place. Drivers are advised to plan ahead and use alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>Marc DeLeon, owner of Mad Dog Tattoo, is excited for the renovation project and hopes it brings more people to the downtown area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope it&#8217;s going to bring more people in this area. We do get a lot of people in this area as it is, but I hope it brings more people,&#8221; DeLeon said.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 A long-term corridor improvement project begins today in downtown Bakersfield, bringing temporary road closures&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[112969,151,112970,155,153,152,56761,112971,162],"class_list":{"0":"post-255014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-18th-and-19th-street-closures","9":"tag-bakersfield","10":"tag-bakersfield-corridor-improvement-project","11":"tag-bakersfield-downtown","12":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","13":"tag-bakersfield-news","14":"tag-bakersfield-traffic","15":"tag-downtown-bakersfield-road-closures","16":"tag-kern-county-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255014","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=255014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}