{"id":7106,"date":"2025-10-16T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7106\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:48:26","slug":"depression-closes-parts-of-u-s-19-curlew-road-in-pinellas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/7106\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression closes parts of U.S. 19, Curlew Road in Pinellas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Florida Department of Transportation contractors are working to repair a depression that opened up at the intersection of U.S. 19 and Curlew Road.<\/p>\n<p>Crews responded Thursday afternoon. As of 3:30 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p>Westbound Curlew lanes are closed<br \/>\nNorthbound U.S. 19 curb lane is closed<br \/>\nSouthbound U.S. 19 left-turn lane is closed<\/p>\n<p>These closures are causing significant delays, particularly for northbound traffic on U.S. 19.<\/p>\n<p>FDOT expects to complete the repairs and reopen the lanes by midnight tonight.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, please avoid the area if possible and consider alternate routes to minimize travel time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/traffic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View Real Time Traffic Map here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Florida Department of Transportation contractors are working to repair a depression that opened up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,2175,115,596,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,729],"class_list":{"0":"post-7106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-app-traffic-and-transit","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pinellas-county","12":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-tampa","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","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=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}