{"id":11108,"date":"2015-10-06T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T23:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=11108"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:47:30","slug":"a-new-bridge-to-machu-picchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2015\/a-new-bridge-to-machu-picchu\/11108\/","title":{"rendered":"A new bridge to Machu Picchu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work is set to begin next week to replace Puente Ruinas, the 60-year-old\u00a0modular Bailey bridge that spans the Vilcanota River to Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n

State news agency Andina reports<\/a> that the work will not affect\u00a0the flow\u00a0of buses so visitors to the Inca Sanctuary need not worry about reaching Peru’s “Wonder of the World”\u00a0destination.<\/p>\n

Puente Ruinas will \u00a0be\u00a0replaced with a new 40-plus meter long pre-fab\u00a0Acrow bridge. The New Jersey-based manufacturer’s<\/a>\u00a0Web site states that the\u00a0fully hot-dipped zinc galvanized steel components are “engineered to exceed a 75-year life span with little to no rust,” even in a tropical jungle\u00a0environment\u00a0like Machu Picchu.<\/p>\n

Installation of the new steel span will reportedly take about\u00a0two weeks to complete.<\/p>\n

Acrow Bridge, of Parsippany, N.J., signed a deal last year with Peru to supply 65 modular steel bridges, several of which have already been erected in the Cusco region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work is set to begin next week to replace Puente Ruinas, the 60-year-old\u00a0modular Bailey bridge that spans the Vilcanota River to Machu Picchu. State news agency Andina reports that the work will not affect\u00a0the flow\u00a0of buses so visitors to the Inca Sanctuary need not worry about reaching Peru’s “Wonder of the World”\u00a0destination. Puente Ruinas will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,1,27],"tags":[773,772],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-11108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-destinations","category-machu-picchu","category-miscellaneous","category-news","tag-machu-picchu-access","tag-puente-ruinas-bridge","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11108"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=11108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}