{"id":44035,"date":"2024-03-31T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=44035"},"modified":"2024-03-31T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T16:14:33","slug":"work-to-begin-on-lucasville-road-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=44035","title":{"rendered":"Work to begin on Lucasville Road bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LUCASVILLE:<\/strong> The Lucasville Bridge will begin receiving repairs and upgrade work starting this month, the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) has announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the municipality\u2019s 2024\/25 Capital Plan the Lucasville Road bridge will undergo repair and upgrades starting April 2024 through January 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work is necessary to ensure continued use of the bridge and modernization of some features in alignment with current construction standards.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8242;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to concrete repairs, the planned work includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>installing new barriers and a wider sidewalk to improve pedestrian use;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>removal of the expansion joints to reduce future maintenance; and,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>repaving of Lucasville Road on the bridge and bridge approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current status<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting early April, contractors will begin pre-construction set-up which may result in minor traffic impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;206&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Construction is expected to begin mid-April 2024 through mid-January 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the bridge will not be closed during this period, construction will require reducing the bridge to one line throughout construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crossing the bridge will be facilitated through signal lights operating 24 hour-a-day, seven-days-a-week throughout the construction period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;71&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;127&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;] LUCASVILLE: The Lucasville Bridge will begin receiving repairs and upgrade work starting this month, the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) has announced. As part of the municipality\u2019s 2024\/25 Capital Plan the Lucasville Road bridge will undergo repair and upgrades starting April 2024 through January 2025. This work is necessary to ensure continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[6450,50,121,6451,475],"class_list":["post-44035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bridge-work","tag-halifax","tag-hrm","tag-lucasville-road","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}