{"id":242832,"date":"2026-07-14T04:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242832\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:06:12","slug":"falls-bridge-to-close-on-weekday-overnights-officials-say-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242832\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls Bridge to close on weekday overnights, officials say \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falls Bridge in Philadelphia will close to road traffic during overnight hours on weekdays for the next couple of weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phila.gov\/2026-07-13-falls-bridge-inspection\/?mc_cid=c48c0d9519&amp;mc_eid=ac7c1e370d\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.phila.gov\/2026-07-13-falls-bridge-inspection\/?mc_cid=c48c0d9519&amp;mc_eid=ac7c1e370d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">officials said on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge will be closed from Falls Road\/MLK Drive and Kelly Drive starting at 9 p.m. Monday through Friday starting Monday, July 13, officials said. The closures will end at 5 a.m. the next day, with the closures ending on Saturday, July 25 at 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telemundo62.com\/noticias\/local\/cierre-puente-falls-filadelfia-mlk-drive-kelly-drive\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.telemundo62.com\/noticias\/local\/cierre-puente-falls-filadelfia-mlk-drive-kelly-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">L\u00e9elo en espa\u00f1ol aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bridge will remain open to road traffic in the overnight hours Saturday into Sunday and Sunday into Monday, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>A sidewalk for pedestrian and bikers will remain open during weekday overnights, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The closures are going into effect to allow for prescheduled inspections as the city plans for the Falls Bridge Rehabilitation project, which will begin on-site work in the fall 2027, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falls Bridge in Philadelphia will close to road traffic during overnight hours on weekdays for the next couple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,47872],"class_list":["post-242832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-traffic-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242832","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=242832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}