{"id":33868,"date":"2025-06-17T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33868"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T12:36:41","slug":"a-hole-in-bridge-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=33868","title":{"rendered":"Sinkhole in Bridge Street"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA hole – described by one passer-by as ‘the size of a plate’ \u2014 led to the partial closure of the top of Bridge Street on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Temporary traffic lights were installed on both Stert Street and Bridge Street to manage the resulting single-lane traffic, causing delays. A yellow board was placed over the hole, with barriers blocking access to both the pavement and the affected section of road.<\/p>\n

Another passer-by was baffled that such a small hole could cause so much disruption. ‘Sinkhole? That\u2019s a joke!’ said someone else.
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\nWorkmen from Oxfordshire County Council were on site today, Tuesday. They have excavated a larger section to investigate the cause of the subsidence and covered the hole again \u2014 at least for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A hole – described by one passer-by as ‘the size of a plate’ \u2014 led to the partial closure of the top of Bridge Street on Saturday. Temporary traffic lights were installed on both Stert Street and Bridge Street to manage the resulting single-lane traffic, causing delays. A yellow board was placed over the hole, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}