{"id":226362,"date":"2026-03-30T01:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226362\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T01:34:07","slug":"brace-for-long-term-road-closure-in-corpus-christi-officials-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/226362\/","title":{"rendered":"Brace for long-term road closure in Corpus Christi, officials warn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officials with the Harbor Bridge Project, located in the Coastal Bend, announced a temporary but months-long closure of a surface street in North Beach<\/a> near what once was Corpus Christi\u2019s Harbor Bridge.<\/p>\n

\u201cBridgeport Avenue will be partially closed on North Beach through May. The long-term closure is necessary for ongoing demolition and restoration operations,\u201d Harbor Bridge Project officials said in a news release on Thursday, March 26.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraffic control devices and message boards will be in place directing commuters to utilize Breakwater Avenue for the detour route,\u201d officials further said.<\/p>\n

The closure and subsequent detour went into effect that same day.<\/p>\n

The Harbor Bridge<\/a>, which first opened to traffic in October 1959, was decommissioned on September 3, 2025, slightly less than three months after its successor opened for the first time on June 28. Crews have spent the last six months since the bridge closed working to dismantle it. The single-largest portion of that demolition occurred in late October, when the bridge\u2019s center span was carefully lowered over the course of several hours onto a barge waiting in the Corpus Christi Ship Channel below.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s new road closure is just the latest in a series of rotating closures as crews work to complete the old bridge demolition. In late January, for instance, Harbor Bridge Project officials announced a similar long-term closure of Padre Street<\/a>. That closure ended on March 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials with the Harbor Bridge Project, located in the Coastal Bend, announced a temporary but months-long closure of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-226362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}