{"id":140796,"date":"2026-03-17T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:14:21","slug":"storm-damage-forces-multiple-road-closures-in-lower-saucon-township-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140796\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm damage forces multiple road closures in Lower Saucon Township | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lower Saucon Township Police Department released a list of roadways that are closed from Monday night\u2019s storm.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they will continue to update the list as the day progresses with updates.<\/p>\n<p>03-17-2026 7:37 a.m. &#8211; Green Acre Dr. between Country Rd. and Linden Oaks Ln., tree down<\/p>\n<p>3-17-2026 7:27 a.m. &#8211; Saucon Valley Rd. between Bingen Rd. and Apple Tree Lane, wires, PPL notified<\/p>\n<p>3-16-2026 &#8211; Bingen between Old Mill and Reading. Tree\/wires. PPL notified.<\/p>\n<p>3-16-2026 &#8211; Ringhoffer between Sherry Hill and Applebutter Rd. Damaged pole\/low wires. PPL notified.<\/p>\n<p>3-16-2026 &#8211; 2500 blk Redington Rd. tree\/wires. PPL notified.<\/p>\n<p>3-16-2026 &#8211; Riverside Drive, trees down, no wires. 2000 block (can detour around) and 2200 block (no detour, past Jefferson). PennDot notified.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities caution the roadways are closed for a reason and for your safety do not drive around barricades or go near poles\/wires down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Lower Saucon Township Police Department released a list of roadways that are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,26030,205,3431,206,9914,294,6654,34893,7281,63986],"class_list":["post-140796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-emergency-response","tag-lower-saucon-township","tag-penndot","tag-police","tag-ppl","tag-public-safety","tag-road-closure","tag-storm-damage","tag-tree-down","tag-wires-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140796","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=140796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}