{"id":133491,"date":"2026-01-27T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/133491\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T13:54:06","slug":"howard-frankland-bridge-lanes-to-close-wednesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/133491\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Frankland Bridge lanes to close Wednesday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The southbound lanes of the Howard Frankland Bridge will be closed Wednesday night into Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to Florida Department of Transportation officials, the bridge lanes are closing for sign construction work on the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers will have to detour off the interstate using SR 60 (Exit 39) from 11 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 28, to 5 a.m., Thursday, Jan. 29.<\/p>\n<p>Message boards and temporary signage will assist southbound I-275 drivers traveling around the closure via Memorial Highway, Courtney Campbell Causeway, Bayside Bridge and Roosevelt Boulevard SR 686).<\/p>\n<p>Other roadways (Kennedy Boulevard, Dale Mabry Highway and Gandy Boulevard) will be accessible and may provide an alternate route.<\/p>\n<p>This closure is necessary for crews to finalize the installation of overhead signage as part of the new southbound I-275 (Howard Frankland Bridge) project, located between Hillsborough and Pinellas counties.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wednesday Night Closure \ud83d\udea7<\/p>\n<p>Motorists traveling SB on I-275 towards the Howard Frankland Bridge will have to detour off the interstate using SR 60 (Exit 39) from 11 p.m., Wednesday, January 28, to 5 a.m., Thursday, January 29, weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p>Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aAUA25dXJm\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/aAUA25dXJm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rdWalBHaBY\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rdWalBHaBY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FDOT West Central &#8211; Tampa Area (@MyFDOT_Tampa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MyFDOT_Tampa\/status\/2015849275062730759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 The southbound lanes of the Howard Frankland Bridge will be closed Wednesday night into Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,276,115,596,275,135,137,136,278,729],"class_list":{"0":"post-133491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-hillsborough-county","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pinellas-county","12":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133491","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=133491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}