{"id":356383,"date":"2026-06-30T22:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356383\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:20:53","slug":"us-181-bridge-replacement-project-begins-near-taft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356383\/","title":{"rendered":"US 181 bridge replacement project begins near Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas Department of Transportation contractor is scheduled to begin a $1.8 million bridge replacement project on US 181 about 4 miles east of Taft in San Patricio County on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The project is estimated to be completed by the end of the year, subject to weather and other potential delays.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists may encounter daily lane closures, periodic reduction of US 181 to a single lane in the work zone and extended temporary detours throughout the duration of the project.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are encouraged to obey all traffic control devices and signs and to be alert to personnel and equipment in the work zone.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas Department of Transportation contractor is scheduled to begin a $1.8 million bridge replacement project on US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,2286],"class_list":["post-356383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-taft-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356383","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=356383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}