{"id":59626,"date":"2016-06-21T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/?p=59626"},"modified":"2016-06-21T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:03:21","slug":"construction-begins-week-university-avenue-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/construction-begins-week-university-avenue-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Begins this Week on University Avenue Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>

The University Avenue bridge will undergo construction beginning Wednesday. Photo by Robert Jordan\/Ole Miss Communications<\/p><\/div>\n

Beginning this week, the University Avenue bridge on the University of Mississippi<\/a> campus will\u00a0be partially closed.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday,\u00a0a\u00a0project\u00a0will begin to increase the bridge’s load capacity in preparation for\u00a0additional\u00a0construction traffic next summer,\u00a0while\u00a0the Chucky Mullins Drive roundabout\u00a0is being built.<\/p>\n

During construction, the bridge will remain open to pedestrians and passable to vehicles through one traffic lane\u00a0in each direction.<\/p>\n

Gertrude Ford Boulevard will be completely closed beneath the bridge from July 6 to Aug. 20 during the project construction. The closure barricades will be placed southbound at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts<\/a> parking lot and northbound at the Ole Miss Athletics building parking lot.<\/p>\n

Construction is to be completed the first week of September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beginning this week, the University Avenue bridge on the University of Mississippi campus will\u00a0be partially closed. On Wednesday,\u00a0a\u00a0project\u00a0will begin to increase the bridge’s load capacity in preparation for\u00a0additional\u00a0construction traffic next summer,\u00a0while\u00a0the Chucky Mullins Drive roundabout\u00a0is being built. During construction, the bridge will remain open to pedestrians and passable to vehicles through one traffic lane\u00a0in eachRead the story …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nConstruction Begins this Week on University Avenue Bridge - Ole Miss News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/construction-begins-week-university-avenue-bridge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction Begins this Week on University Avenue Bridge - Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Beginning this week, the University Avenue bridge on the University of Mississippi campus will\u00a0be partially closed. On Wednesday,\u00a0a\u00a0project\u00a0will begin to increase the bridge’s load capacity in preparation for\u00a0additional\u00a0construction traffic next summer,\u00a0while\u00a0the Chucky Mullins Drive roundabout\u00a0is being built. During construction, the bridge will remain open to pedestrians and passable to vehicles through one traffic lane\u00a0in eachRead the story …\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/construction-begins-week-university-avenue-bridge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-06-21T18:00:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-06-21T18:03:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UniversityBridge-300x168.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@OleMissRebels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@OleMissRebels\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/\",\"name\":\"Ole Miss News\",\"description\":\"The official source for University of Mississippi news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/construction-begins-week-university-avenue-bridge\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/UniversityBridge-300x168.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/construction-begins-week-university-avenue-bridge\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/construction-begins-week-university-avenue-bridge\/\",\"name\":\"Construction Begins this Week on University Avenue Bridge - Ole Miss News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/construction-begins-week-university-avenue-bridge\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-06-21T18:00:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-06-21T18:03:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/79ba02ac0c3f4fc9414c574026fdf6b3\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/construction-begins-week-university-avenue-bridge\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/79ba02ac0c3f4fc9414c574026fdf6b3\",\"name\":\"Christina Steube\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ee1a10f35524cf4561d33fabf87f62f8?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Christina Steube\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59662,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59626\/revisions\/59662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}