{"id":5435,"date":"2022-01-30T14:02:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2022-02-05T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T21:27:26","slug":"coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/?p=5435","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In building a series of bridges on Hatteras Island, NCDOT will tentatively open the newest one in March. Known as the <strong>Jug Handle<\/strong>, it replaces a roadway that, over the years, has routinely been washed out by high seas.<\/p>\n<p>Last August I was fortunate to be given an after-hours tour of the impressively engineered site.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pavement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5436\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pavement.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pavement.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pavement-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/crane.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5437\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/crane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/crane.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/crane-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The north and south terminus construction had yet to be connected midway.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/north.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5438\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/north.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/north.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/north-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High up on a superstructure, I admired the curvature toward the northern terminus on Pea Island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/south.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5439\" src=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/south.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/south.jpg 600w, http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/south-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking south, with Rodanthe as a backdrop, the now-gone trestles and infrastructure were still in place. Possibly opening to foot traffic in March, I hope to be walking the 2 \u00bd mile span as I did at the new Basnight Bridge in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>With a tourism based economy, access to the islands is key. And as roadways continue to be compromised, this bridge won&#8217;t be the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In building a series of bridges on Hatteras Island, NCDOT will tentatively open the newest one in March. Known as the Jug Handle, it replaces a roadway that, over the years, has routinely been washed out by high seas. Last August I was fortunate to be given an after-hours tour of the impressively engineered site.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buildings","category-outer-banks","category-pamlico-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5444,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5435\/revisions\/5444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/photoblog.michaelhalminski.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}