{"id":240745,"date":"2026-05-22T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240745\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T17:28:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-port-authority-blames-winter-weather-for-gwb-debris-incident-and-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/240745\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Port Authority Blames Winter Weather For Gwb Debris Incident And Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Traffic is expected to be heavy at the George Washington Bridge this weekend after a debris incident disrupted travel.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say it took nearly a full day to complete repairs after debris fell into car lanes last week, forcing closures and causing gridlock.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Port Authority says harsh winter weather was to blame.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials said a mix of snow, ice and road salt got into expansion joints, damaging concrete and leading to the debris falling.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThat mixture of snow and ice\u2026allowed snow and ice to get through there along with the salt further corroding some of the concrete,\u201d a Port Authority official said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The issue is not the first of its kind.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Earlier this month, dashcam video showed debris falling onto a car on the Cross Bronx Expressway near the bridge.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The driver was not hurt.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Port Authority says it is now installing wire netting to help catch any future debris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic is expected to be heavy at the George Washington Bridge this weekend after a debris incident disrupted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-240745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}