{"id":227646,"date":"2026-04-11T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227646\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:47:09","slug":"wilson-pigott-bridge-in-lee-county-closing-for-10-days-starting-april-12-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/227646\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Pigott Bridge in Lee County closing for 10 days starting April 12 | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Wilson Pigott Bridge will close overnight and remain closed for about 10 days starting tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers who use the bridge to cross the Caloosahatchee River will need to use I-75 as an alternate route during the closure. The bridge will close overnight starting April 12th and remain closed for approximately 10 days for deck replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are urging drivers to plan ahead and give themselves extra time for their commutes.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge closure is expected to impact traffic patterns in Fort Myers for the duration of the 10-day period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Wilson Pigott Bridge will close overnight and remain closed for about 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[38574,209,211,210,897,50602],"class_list":{"0":"post-227646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-caloosahatchee-river","9":"tag-cape-coral","10":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","11":"tag-cape-coral-news","12":"tag-fort-myers","13":"tag-wilson-pigott-bridge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227646","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=227646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}