LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA \u2014 The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will perform Route 1 construction overnight this week under a $116 million project to reconstruct, widen, and improve a three-mile section of the highway in Bensalem and Middletown townships.<\/p>\n
Drivers are advised of the following travel restriction:<\/p>\n
Motorists are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the work area because backups and delays will occur. <\/p>\n
All scheduled activities are weather-dependent.<\/p>\n
The work is part of PennDOT\u2019s U.S. 1\/RC2 contract<\/a> that will reconstruct and widen U.S. 1 from south of the Rockhill Drive Interchange to north of the Penndel\/Business U.S. 1 Interchange.<\/p>\n For more information on this project and PennDOT\u2019s U.S. 1 reconstruction program in Bucks County, visit www.us1bucks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting www.511PA.com<\/a>. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information, and access to more than 1,200 traffic cameras. 511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional X alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA \u2014 The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will perform Route 1 construction overnight this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-16591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16591","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=16591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}