{"id":37298,"date":"2017-04-12T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=37298"},"modified":"2017-04-12T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:00:41","slug":"caltrans-removes-damaged-pfeiffer-canyon-bridge-plans-to-quickly-re-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=37298","title":{"rendered":"Caltrans Removes Damaged Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge, Plans To Quickly Re-Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monterey, CA&#8230;The Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on State Route 1 was closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic February 15, 2017, after heavy rains caused a landslide under the structure damaging one of its main support columns. The bridge, which was built in 1968, was demolished over the span of a week. Engineers used a 6,000 ton wrecking ball and other equipment to strike precise points on the bridge to force it to break apart.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qh9zE3RqNVQ?list=PLeXl970ijTguR-LqVqx5xi1nXZ3K3kL5q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this Caltrans News Flash, we interview a bridge construction engineer and structure representative about plans to expedite the rebuilding of the expanse between the Big Sur community and the Monterey\/Carmel area to the north. <\/p>\n<p>This video can be viewed at: http:\/\/www.dot.ca.gov\/paffairs\/newsflash\/<\/p>\n<p>This News Flash is the 127th in a series of videos highlighting Caltrans\u2019 activities that present the wide-ranging and critical work that Caltrans does to enhance California\u2019s economy and livability. To see more of these and other videos, search for #CaltransNewsFlash on Twitter or go to http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ez3LYz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monterey, CA&#8230;The Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge on State Route 1 was closed to pedestrian and vehicular traffic February 15, 2017, after heavy rains caused a landslide under the structure damaging one of its main support columns. The bridge, which was built in 1968, was demolished over the span of a week. Engineers used a 6,000 ton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Fullscreen-capture-4122017-85215-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}