The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has announced a series of upcoming closures this weekend for normal maintenance.<\/p>\n
The northbound lanes of the Northeast Extension will be closed between the Quakertown and Lehigh Valley exits from midnight to 5 a.m. on April 12.<\/p>\n
A detour will be in effect using Route 663, Route 309, Interstate 78, Route 309 and Route 22 or Tilghman Street.<\/p>\n
The westbound lanes of the turnpike will be closed between the Downingtown and Morgantown exchanges between midnight and 5 a.m. on April 12.<\/p>\n
A detour will be in effect using Route 100, Route 23 and Route 10.<\/p>\n
The exit ramps from the turnpike onto Route 29 will be closed from 11:59 p.m. on April 11 until 11:59 p.m. on April 12. No traffic will be able to exit at the interchange during the closure.<\/p>\n
During the closure, there will also be one or two 15- to 30-minute closures of the entry ramp onto the turnpike from Route 29. They will occur between 4 and 7 p.m. on April 12.<\/p>\n
The entrance ramp to the turnpike from Atwater Drive is unaffected and will remain open.<\/p>\n
In addition, the entrance ramp to the turnpike from Atwater Drive will be closed from 6 a.m. on April 13 until 3 p.m. on April 17. A detour will be in place to direct traffic to enter the turnpike from the Route 29 ramp, which will remain open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has announced a series of upcoming closures this weekend for normal maintenance. The northbound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[349,153,155,154,182,139,28,1444,2155],"class_list":["post-162488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-berks-county","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-lan","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162488","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=162488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}