{"id":254107,"date":"2013-04-25T16:10:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=254107"},"modified":"2013-04-26T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:49:59","slug":"txdot-mlk-overpass-to-remain-closed-pending-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=254107","title":{"rendered":"TxDOT: MLK Overpass to Remain Closed Pending Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=253446\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-253446\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/04\/fatal_interstate-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"fatal_interstate\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-253446\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8212; Texas Department of Transportation officials Thursday announced they would keep the Martin Luther King overpass at I-20 in Longview closed until further repairs could be made to the structure.  &#8220;We never gamble with the safety of the traveling public,&#8221; said TxDOT Tyler District Engineer Randy C. Hopmann, P.E. &#8220;We are in the process of initiating a contract to make the necessary repairs to re-open the structure as quickly and safely as possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Local TxDOT engineers closed the overpass early Monday morning as a safety precaution after an 18-wheel truck ran off the roadway, then burned underneath the overpass. A Mississippi woman died in the wreck.  Engineers from TxDOT&#8217;s Bridge Division inspected the site the following day and informed the Tyler District Thursday morning of their findings and subsequent recommendation that the overpass should remain closed pending repairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be handled similarly to other bridge-hits we&#8217;ve had along Interstate 20 and elsewhere,&#8221; Hopmann added. &#8220;Our goal is to get this work done quickly and safely, and get the overpass re-opened to traffic as soon as possible.&#8221;  There is no timeline for the work to begin, or estimate on the potential cost, but officials say plans for the repairs are already underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8212; Texas Department of Transportation officials Thursday announced they would keep the Martin Luther King overpass at I-20 in Longview closed until further repairs could be made to the structure. &#8220;We never gamble with the safety of the traveling public,&#8221; said TxDOT Tyler District Engineer Randy C. Hopmann, P.E. &#8220;We are in the process &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=254107\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TxDOT: MLK Overpass to Remain Closed Pending Repairs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 18:11:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254107"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254406,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254107\/revisions\/254406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}