{"id":622702,"date":"2025-12-09T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/622702\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T19:11:00","slug":"m4-traffic-live-prince-of-wales-bridge-lanes-shut-as-risk-of-collapse-fears-emerge-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/622702\/","title":{"rendered":"M4 traffic LIVE: Prince of Wales Bridge lanes shut as &#8216;risk of collapse&#8217; fears emerge | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two out of three lanes have been closed in both directions to allow emergency repairs to take place.<\/p>\n<p>National highways revealed that work is being done on the lighting columns after identifying an immediate risk that could cause a collapse.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, they added: &#8220;There are severe delays approaching the M4 Prince Of Wales Bridge in both directions due to emergency roadworks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;2 lanes of 3 have had to be closed in both directions for safety reasons, awaiting emergency repairs to a number of lamp columns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is due to urgent safety inspections of lighting columns on the bridge, which have identified an immediate risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Testing found several columns in need of immediate removal due to the risk of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, we have to wait for the high winds to subside before work can take place. We appreciate your patience while we complete this vital safety work.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two out of three lanes have been closed in both directions to allow emergency repairs to take place.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[682,35700,23653,683,8088,12,193589,8089,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-622702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-m4","10":"tag-m4-crash","11":"tag-m4-delays","12":"tag-m4-traffic","13":"tag-motorway","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-prince-of-wales-bridge-severn-bridge","16":"tag-traffic-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115691197754579844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622702","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=622702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}