{"id":156727,"date":"2026-04-03T22:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:52:07","slug":"easter-holiday-travel-jam-i-78-and-pa-turnpike-see-record-traffic-volume-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156727\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter holiday travel jam: I-78 and Pa. Turnpike see record traffic volume | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a crowded time on our roads heading into the Easter Holiday.<\/p>\n<p>69 News reporter Rick Holmes braved the I-78 traffic to give us live looks at the conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots of traffic out there on Friday from I-78 to the PA Turnpike, which is expecting to see over 2 million vehicles between Friday and Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re all hitting the road as we deal with historically high gasoline prices &#8211; now averaging more than $4 a gallon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We stopped by gas stations in our area to see what people had to say.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a crowded time on our roads heading into the Easter Holiday. 69 News reporter Rick Holmes braved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-156727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156727","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=156727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}