{"id":168663,"date":"2026-04-17T16:29:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:29:42","slug":"erie-county-50-million-investment-into-roads-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/168663\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County $50 million investment into roads, bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of $50 million will be poured into repaving roads across Erie County and repairing bridges across the county this year.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is made possible through the 2026 Erie County Road and Bridge Program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phase II of the Maple Road reconstruction project is included in the funding plan. Phase I was done last year, which included the north side of Maple Road being repaved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The south side of the street is set to be resurfaced this year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bridge over Ellicott Creek will also be repaired.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3439-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"(Spectrum News 1)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Spectrum News 1)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to be expanding it to the Flint Road entrance at the University at Buffalo, so even the section on the north side that ended before that. Everything from Flint to North Forest will be a brand new surface,&#8221; Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said.<\/p>\n<p>Phase II, a $3 million project, will be completed this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since 2020, the county has invested more than $250 million to repair bridges and roadways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3438.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\" img-data-caption=\"(Spectrum News 1)\" img-data-wrap-text=\"true\" img-data-editing=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Spectrum News 1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of $50 million will be poured into repaving roads across Erie County and repairing bridges across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1612,1611,1610,136,138,137,139,1592],"class_list":{"0":"post-168663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-app-in-the-community","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-community-news","11":"tag-erie","12":"tag-erie-headlines","13":"tag-erie-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-spectrum-news-staff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168663","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=168663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}