{"id":1580,"date":"2011-09-09T18:02:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2011-09-09T18:03:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T22:03:34","slug":"kancamagus-set-to-open-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/09\/09\/kancamagus-set-to-open-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Kancamagus Set To Open Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key east-west routes through the White Mountains is set to reopen this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0The Kancamagus Highway has been closed since Tropical Storm Irene ripped through New England late<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1581\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/4006820219_b3723b53ef.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1581\" title=\"White Mountains up close\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/4006820219_b3723b53ef-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/4006820219_b3723b53ef-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/4006820219_b3723b53ef-220x146.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/09\/4006820219_b3723b53ef.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Tim Sackton \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traveling through the White Mountains will be a lot easier for a number of residents and visitors starting Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>last month.\u00a0 Although the deadline for opening the road was Thursday, September 15, it will actually open a few days earlier, on Sunday.\u00a0 Governor John Lynch&#8217;s office announced the highway&#8217;s planned reopening today.\u00a0 The Loon Mountain Pedestrian Bridge will also reopen Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Another important east-west thoroughfare across the White Mountains, Route 302, remains closed in Hart&#8217;s Location around the Sawyer River Bridge.\u00a0 The Department of Transportation hopes to reopen that stretch of highway by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the announcement from the Governor&#8217;s Office <a title=\"Kancamagus Highway to Open Sunday\" href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.nh.gov\/media\/news\/2011\/090911-kancamagus-opens.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And you can find out how states apply for FEMA assistance to rebuild infrastructure <a title=\"How Do States Get FEMA Disaster Relief Money After Irene?\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/08\/31\/how-do-states-get-fema-disaster-relief-money-after-irene\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the key east-west routes through the White Mountains is set to reopen this weekend.\u00a0\u00a0The Kancamagus Highway has been closed since Tropical Storm Irene ripped through New England late last month.\u00a0 Although the deadline for opening the road was Thursday, September 15, it will actually open a few days earlier, on Sunday.\u00a0 Governor John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[484,156],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}