{"id":343182,"date":"2025-08-14T06:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343182\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T06:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:36:11","slug":"overnight-birmingham-road-closures-as-hs2-bridge-is-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343182\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight Birmingham road closures as HS2 bridge is moved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Part of Birmingham&#8217;s ring road will close overnight for 10 days so a huge bridge can be moved into place as part of the HS2 rail scheme.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 112m (367ft) steel bridge weighs more than 1,600 tonnes and the section will form part of a one-mile stretch of five connected viaducts, to carry trains into Curzon Street Station, an HS2 spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A section of Lawley Middleway from Garrison Circus to Curzon Circus will shut between 22:00 and 06:00 BST from 15-24 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A signed diversion route will be in place, which the spokesperson said would avoid drivers having to enter the Birmingham Clean Air Zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Part of Birmingham&#8217;s ring road will close overnight for 10 days so a huge bridge can be moved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-343182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115025738695307654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}