{"id":144877,"date":"2026-03-21T21:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144877\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:27:07","slug":"bridge-on-airport-drive-and-route-307-closed-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144877\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge on Airport Drive and Route 307 closed, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The road and bridges department, along with the county engineer, deemed the headwall of the bridge unsafe for traffic.<\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A bridge is closed after being deemed unsafe in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">\u00a0Lackawanna County<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Lackawanna County Communications Director says the bridge on Airport Drive and Route 307 in Newton Township is closed, effective immediately.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closure comes at the recommendation of the road and bridges department and the county engineer, following a determination that the structure&#8217;s headwall was unsafe for traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An alternative route has been put in place for motorists.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The road and bridges department, along with the county engineer, deemed the headwall of the bridge unsafe for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-144877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}