{"id":2925,"date":"2016-01-08T15:27:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T19:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2016-01-18T15:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T19:18:21","slug":"western-kentucky-bridge-remains-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/01\/08\/western-kentucky-bridge-remains-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Kentucky Bridge Remains Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2926\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2016\/01\/08\/western-kentucky-bridge-remains-closed\/cairo-bridge\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Cairo-Bridge.jpg?fit=225%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,169\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Cairo Bridge\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Cairo-Bridge.jpg?fit=225%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Cairo-Bridge.jpg?resize=225%2C169\" alt=\"Cairo Bridge\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2926\" \/><br \/>\nThe Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says a western Kentucky bridge over the Ohio River that was closed last week due to high water remains shut down.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The cabinet says engineers are in contact with the Army Corps of Engineers about water levels at the U.S. 51\/U.S. 60\/U.S. 62 Ohio River &#8220;Cairo&#8221; Bridge between Kentucky and Illinois. The cabinet says the bridge will remain closed until floodwaters drop a few more inches.<\/p>\n<p>Cabinet engineers have inspected the levee, and the cabinet says the inspection revealed no shoulder and erosion issues like those that occurred in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The span carries about 5,000 vehicles daily, and the cabinet says the closure affects north-south traffic on U.S. 51 between Kentucky and Illinois as well as east-west traffic along U.S. 60 and U.S. 62 into Kentucky and Missouri.<br \/>\nSource:  AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says a western Kentucky bridge over the Ohio River that was closed last week due to high water remains shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-Lb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-01 14:31:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}