ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 PennDOT Engineering District 5 announced Friday work will begin Monday on a traffic signal improvement project in Lehigh County.<\/p>\n
The project involves the installation of new traffic signals and pedestrian facilities at the intersection at Mauch Chuck Road and Presidential Drive, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The project also includes replacing the existing traffic signal equipment at the intersection of Mauch Chunk and Scherersville Road and the intersection of Mauch Chunk and Girard\/Pirma Avenue. New pedestrian crosswalks and pushbuttons will also be added, a news release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The project also includes tree clearing, utility relocation, drainage work, intersection widening and paving.<\/p>\n
Beginning Monday, Mauch Chunk Road will have sporadic daytime (9am \u2013 3pm) and nighttime (6pm \u2013 6am) lane restrictions with flagging between Scherersville and Gallagher roads, according to officials.<\/p>\n
Updates on traffic conditions will be provided when available.<\/p>\n
J.D.Eckman, Inc. of Atglen, PA is the general contractor on the $1,727,527 project that is anticipated to be complete in August 2027, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 PennDOT Engineering District 5 announced Friday work will begin Monday on a traffic signal improvement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,1704],"class_list":["post-125565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}