{"id":16813,"date":"2020-08-10T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T16:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=16813"},"modified":"2020-08-10T14:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:00:31","slug":"mantoloking-bridge-stuck-in-the-open-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/08\/mantoloking-bridge-stuck-in-the-open-position\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Mantoloking Bridge Back Open After Being Stuck for 90 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATE 1:59PM:<\/strong> Bridge is back open, but traffic remains. &#8220;Be patient as we expect residual traffic delays,&#8221; police warn.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16814\" style=\"width: 2570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16814\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mantoloking Bridge (File Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-180x135.jpg 180w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-238x178.jpg 238w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-681x511.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mantoloking Bridge (File Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick police say the Mantoloking Bridge is currently stuck in the open position.<\/p>\n<p>Two messages were sent out by Brick police, the first at 12:22 p.m., saying the bridge was experiencing mechanical issues and would be repaired within about 20 minutes. At 12:38 p.m., a second message was sent, advising that the bridge was &#8220;stuck&#8221; in the open position and drivers should use alternate routes through Point Pleasant or Route 37 to and from the barrier island.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should plan an alternative route, police said.<\/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\/08\/mantoloking-bridge-stuck-in-the-open-position\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 1:59PM: Bridge is back open, but traffic remains. &#8220;Be patient as we expect residual traffic delays,&#8221; police warn. Brick police say the Mantoloking Bridge is currently stuck in the open position. Two messages were sent out by Brick police, the first at 12:22 p.m., saying the bridge was experiencing mechanical issues and would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16814,"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":[3],"tags":[24,333],"class_list":["post-16813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-mantoloking-bridge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_3611-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4nb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813","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=16813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}