{"id":12468,"date":"2026-07-09T20:56:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:56:36","slug":"video-bridge-funding-reallocation-hall-road-vs-stokes-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=12468","title":{"rendered":"Video: Bridge Funding Reallocation: Hall Road vs. Stokes Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7\/6\/2026 Town Council meeting, Deputy Director of Public Works James Dance proposes\u00a0reallocating state bridge funding\u00a0from the Stokes Road Bridge to the Hall Road Bridge. While the Stokes Road structure is in worse physical condition, Dance argues that Hall Road is a\u00a0critical transportation artery\u00a0carrying 2,000 vehicles daily, compared to only 29 on Stokes Road. The presentation details how the\u00a0Hall Road Bridge suffers from scour\u00a0and foundational instability that causes the road surface to sink continuously. Furthermore, upcoming\u00a0state intersection improvements\u00a0may eventually result in the closure of the Stokes Road entrance, potentially rendering its bridge obsolete. Because Hall Road serves as a vital route for\u00a0emergency services and school buses, the council highlights the project&#8217;s superior public utility. Ultimately, the town council votes unanimously to\u00a0shift the $2 million in funding, ensuring the more heavily used infrastructure is prioritized for replacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bridge Funding Reallocation: Hall Road vs. Stokes Road\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dVzBQXiPh1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7\/6\/2026 Town Council meeting, Deputy Director of Public Works James Dance proposes\u00a0reallocating state bridge funding\u00a0from the Stokes Road Bridge to the Hall Road Bridge. While the Stokes Road structure is in worse physical condition, Dance argues that Hall Road is a\u00a0critical transportation artery\u00a0carrying 2,000 vehicles daily, compared to only 29&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12469,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions\/12469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}