{"id":162429,"date":"2026-04-10T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162429\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:59:08","slug":"overnight-lane-restrictions-planned-on-i-81-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162429\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight lane restrictions planned on I-81 in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Drivers in Lackawanna County should expect overnight lane restrictions on Interstate 81 over the next week as crews perform testing work.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT says the restrictions will impact both northbound and southbound lanes between April 12 and April 21. Work will take place nightly from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. for ground test boring operations.<\/p>\n<p>Northbound lane restrictions are scheduled from April 12 through April 15, with work zones shifting between Exit 178 near the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport in Avoca and Exit 186 in Dunmore.<\/p>\n<p>Southbound restrictions will follow from April 15 through April 21, affecting areas between Exit 188 in Dunmore\/Throop and Exit 178 in Avoca.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to use caution, watch for changing traffic patterns, and allow extra travel time when passing through the work zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Drivers in Lackawanna County should expect overnight lane restrictions on Interstate 81 over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-162429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162429","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=162429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}