{"id":12527,"date":"2013-06-12T03:53:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T10:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12527"},"modified":"2013-06-12T03:53:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T10:53:19","slug":"major-new-tourist-attraction-coming-to-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/major-new-tourist-attraction-coming-to-long-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Major New Tourist Attraction Coming to Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/portupda.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Chris MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>A major new tourist attraction is coming to Long Beach that may help bring more revenue to the area, while making traffic more efficient. It even will be lit up at night and you\u2019ll be able to see Catalina from its overlooks. \u00a0Construction began this year on the exciting 3-year project, which will replace the deteriorating, often-congested Gerald Desmond Bridge, connecting Terminal Island and the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to the 710 Freeway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be dramatic and become an icon like the Queen Mary,\u201d predicted John Pope in Community Relations with the Port of Long Beach. \u00a0With twin 500-foot tall towers, the state\u2019s first cable-stayed \u00a0bridge<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/attractions\/long-beach-port-bridge.html\">&#8230; read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris MacDonald A major new tourist attraction is coming to Long Beach that may help bring more revenue to the area, while making traffic more efficient. It even will be lit up at night and you\u2019ll be able to see Catalina from its overlooks. \u00a0Construction began this year on the exciting 3-year project, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}