{"id":43030,"date":"2025-11-07T21:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43030\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:07:11","slug":"railroad-arm-malfunction-causes-heavy-traffic-on-lerdo-highway-shafter-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/43030\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad arm malfunction causes heavy traffic on Lerdo Highway: Shafter police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Shafter police said both east and westbound lanes on Lerdo Highway at the railroad crossing are experiencing heavy traffic due to a railroad arm malfunction on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shafterpd\/posts\/pfbid02ctSWDPRyfQNF4UsyLEMf8jJPXfEg8LFoXPMHF1NzHS58JKw3SNMHZioEqyM8qz5Kl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced the issue on social media<\/a> just after 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Please avoid the area if possible and use alternate routes, said police.<\/p>\n<p>Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) crews are working to fix the problem, said officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Shafter police said both east and westbound lanes on Lerdo Highway at the railroad crossing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-43030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43030","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=43030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}