{"id":180718,"date":"2026-04-30T23:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180718\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:03:10","slug":"meadows-road-bridge-in-lower-saucon-township-to-open-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/180718\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadows Road Bridge in Lower Saucon Township to open Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bridge in Northampton County is reopening, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2024\/12\/02\/lehigh-valley-historic-bridges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight years after it was closed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new Meadows Road Bridge in Lower Saucon Township, near Route 412, will reopen Friday, according to a notice from the township.<\/p>\n<p>The former span was closed in 2018 after a 4-foot hole developed in it. The historic bridge was demolished a few years later.<\/p>\n<p>It had been built in 1858 and was one of two four-span stone arch bridges in the county.<\/p>\n<p>The $3 million replacement project began in late 2024. The new bridge is wider and has a 5-foot sidewalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bridge in Northampton County is reopening, eight years after it was closed. The new Meadows Road Bridge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-180718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180718","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=180718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}