{"id":448965,"date":"2026-09-27T02:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448965\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T02:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T02:36:20","slug":"i-35-reopened-after-bridge-strike-shuts-down-austin-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/448965\/","title":{"rendered":"I-35 reopened after bridge strike shuts down Austin highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Austin Police Department confirmed all roadways affected by the bridge strike have since reopened as of 9 a.m. on Friday morning, September 25.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Austin_Police\/status\/2103445088462369044\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">confirmed<\/a> I-35 Southbound at Onion Creek Parkway was shut down because of a bridge strike around 5:45 a.m. on Friday. Police said there weren&#8217;t any injuries affiliated with the strike and officials &#8220;are just waiting on a safety clearance.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drive safely and find an alternate route this morning,&#8221; APD wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As of about 6:30 a.m. Friday, traffic was backed up from the crash site at Exit 225 to William Cannon Drive and exits 228 and 229, per traffic database <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sigalert.com\/?lat=30.14258&amp;lon=-97.81548&amp;z=0\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">SigAlert<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Austin Police Department confirmed all roadways affected by the bridge strike have since reopened as of 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,820,59494],"class_list":["post-448965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysastaff","tag-mysatranspo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448965","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=448965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}