TAMPA, Fla. – Drivers heading southbound toward the Howard Frankland Bridge on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning will need to seek alternate routes.<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
The Florida Department of Transportation plans to close the southbound lanes of the Howard Frankland Bridge from 11 p.m., Wednesday, January 28, to 5 a.m., Thursday, January 29, weather permitting.<\/p>\n
Travel lanes on northbound I-275 (from St. Petersburg<\/a> to Tampa<\/a>) will not be affected.<\/p>\n READ: Howard Frankland Bridge construction barrels toward finish line: Here\u2019s what to know<\/a><\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Motorists will have to detour off the interstate using SR 60 (Exit 39).<\/p>\n Alternate routes include Gandy Boulevard and the Courtney Campbell Causeway (SR 60).<\/p>\n PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Crews continue dismantling Howard Frankland Bridge’s aging northbound span\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Officials said motorists should add extra travel time as traffic congestion and delays may occur while driving on these roadways.<\/p>\n Why is the Howard Frankland Bridge closed? <\/p>\n FDOT officials say the closure is necessary for crews to finalize the installation of overhead signage as part of the new southbound Howard Frankland Bridge project, located between Hillsborough<\/a> and Pinellas Counties.<\/a><\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information provided by the Florida Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n Tampa<\/a>Traffic<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. – Drivers heading southbound toward the Howard Frankland Bridge on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,729,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-132533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-hillsborough","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-headlines","13":"tag-tampa-news","14":"tag-traffic","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}