{"id":152689,"date":"2026-03-30T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152689\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:50:07","slug":"litter-removal-on-i-78-causes-major-traffic-backup-in-lehigh-county-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152689\/","title":{"rendered":"Litter removal on I\u201178 causes major traffic backup in Lehigh County | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH CO., Pa. &#8211; Litter removal along Interstate 78 in Lehigh County caused a major traffic backup Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The work is being done between the Berks and Northampton County lines.<\/p>\n<p>78 was down to just one lane in that area.<\/p>\n<p>And that led to a miles-long line of stopped vehicles and delays of at least a half-hour.<\/p>\n<p>Litter removal in this area is expected to continue throughout the week &#8212; from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH CO., Pa. &#8211; Litter removal along Interstate 78 in Lehigh County caused a major traffic backup Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,41214,20967,433,31013,69389,69388,41216,69390,69387,23871],"class_list":{"0":"post-152689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-interstate-78","12":"tag-lane-closure","13":"tag-lehigh-county","14":"tag-road-construction","15":"tag-rock-road","16":"tag-route-145","17":"tag-route-309","18":"tag-stopped-vehicles","19":"tag-traffic-backup","20":"tag-traffic-delays"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152689","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=152689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}