{"id":354080,"date":"2025-08-18T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354080\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:41:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:41:15","slug":"m5-northbound-reopens-following-avonmouth-bridge-fault-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354080\/","title":{"rendered":"M5 northbound reopens following Avonmouth Bridge fault delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A motorway bridge has reopened after emergency repairs left drivers queuing in traffic for more than two hours.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two lanes of the M5 northbound were closed on Sunday 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\">National Highways said the repairs took longer to cure in the warm weather, with queues stretching 14 miles (22km) back to junction 21 for Weston-super-Mare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All lanes reopened at about 22:00 on Sunday and traffic monitoring site Inrix reports traffic is now moving freely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorway bridge has reopened after emergency repairs left drivers queuing in traffic for more than two hours.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-354080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","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\/115049587270557504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354080","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=354080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}