{"id":351973,"date":"2025-08-17T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351973\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T15:49:10","slug":"long-traffic-delays-on-m5-northbound-due-to-avonmouth-bridge-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351973\/","title":{"rendered":"Long traffic delays on M5 northbound due to Avonmouth Bridge fault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Drivers leaving the South West have been caught in more than three hours of queues caused by emergency repairs to a bridge. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three lanes of the M5 northbound are closed after a faulty bridge join was discovered on the Avonmouth Bridge, near junction 18, at about 07:00 BST. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Queues are currently stretching 14 miles (22km) back to junction 21 for Weston-super-Mare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A National Highways spokesperson has said the lanes are expected to remain closed for several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers leaving the South West have been caught in more than three hours of queues caused by emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-351973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115044900125016248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351973","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=351973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}