{"id":59358,"date":"2013-06-11T20:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/safe-passage\/"},"modified":"2013-06-12T02:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T02:50:42","slug":"safe-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/safe-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Safe passage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c1a45212-fed2-4e08-9a33-b6f588998a63&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1373\" alt=\"Mancos mayor Rachel Simbeck attempts to cut the ribbon with garden shears while trustee Reneata Collins cuts with a pair of scissors to formally open the Mesa Street pedestrian bridge at a dedication ceremony on June 5.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos mayor Rachel Simbeck attempts to cut the ribbon with garden shears while trustee Reneata Collins cuts with a pair of scissors to formally open the Mesa Street pedestrian bridge at a dedication ceremony on June 5.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The final touches on the Mesa Street pedestrian bridge have been completed with the landscaping recently finished and a dedication ceremony Wednesday, June 5.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Rachel Simbeck recapped the history of the bridge, that began with the Mancos school district, the Mancos Public Library and town all chipping in $1,500 for the flood plain study necessary to satisfy the Colorado Department of Transportation. The final $200,000 cost was funded mostly by an enhancement grant through CDOT for $119,228 with the remainder picked up by Montezuma County, the Ballantine Foundation and the town of Mancos in general and conservation trust funds.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge provides a safe and beautiful passage across the Mancos River to the library, said Simbeck, and is part of the master trails plan for the town of Mancos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>footbridge spans river<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,1469],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-59358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-travel-and-commuting"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59358"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=59358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}