{"id":15860,"date":"2020-01-17T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T05:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=15860"},"modified":"2020-01-17T01:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T06:40:43","slug":"ocean-county-to-make-improvements-to-mantoloking-bridge-fishing-pier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/01\/ocean-county-to-make-improvements-to-mantoloking-bridge-fishing-pier\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean County to Make Improvements to Mantoloking Bridge Fishing Pier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2078\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mantoloking_bridge.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2078\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mantoloking_bridge-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"The Mantoloking Bridge (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mantoloking_bridge-1024x341.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mantoloking_bridge-400x133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mantoloking_bridge-600x200.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mantoloking Bridge (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ocean County officials will soon embark on a maintenance project to shore up the popular fishing pier beside the Mantoloking Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The county freeholder board on Wednesday awarded a contract for $117,371 to engineering firm Mott MacDonald to provide their expertise to upgrade portions of the pier, which is built on a small remaining sliver of the former bridge which once crossed Barnegat Bay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is timber underneath that needs work,\u201d said Freeholder Virginia Haines, following the meeting. \u201cWe know it\u2019s a popular spot and we want to make sure we keep up on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The upgrades will include safety improvements and walkway maintenance but will mainly focus on the undercarriage of the old bridge to ensure it can withstand the elements and continue to operate as a fishing pier.<\/p>\n<p>The county\u2019s Mantoloking Bridge County Park spans both sides of Mantoloking Road in Brick. Additional piers, mainly used for crabbing, are located on the north side of the road next to Brick\u2019s Traders Cove park. A walkway under the bridge provides access to the fishing pier on the south side of the currently-operating bridge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/01\/ocean-county-to-make-improvements-to-mantoloking-bridge-fishing-pier\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean County officials will soon embark on a maintenance project to shore up the popular fishing pier beside the Mantoloking Bridge. The county freeholder board on Wednesday awarded a contract for $117,371 to engineering firm Mott MacDonald to provide their expertise to upgrade portions of the pier, which is built on a small remaining sliver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[24,3931,333,1592],"class_list":["post-15860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boating-fishing","category-ocean-county","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-fishing-pier","tag-mantoloking-bridge","tag-ocean-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/mantoloking_bridge.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-47O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}