{"id":184577,"date":"2026-05-05T19:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184577\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:01:11","slug":"penndot-to-close-scrantons-linden-street-bridge-wednesday-for-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184577\/","title":{"rendered":"PennDOT to close Scranton&#8217;s Linden Street bridge Wednesday for upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A busy bridge in downtown Scranton will be closed from Wednesday until the end of the year for $6 million in rehabilitation, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Linden Street Bridge, between 7th and Mifflin avenues, crosses  the Lackawanna River and Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority tracks.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge, which is about 50 years old and carries 4,500 vehicles per day, &#8220;is past its useful life,&#8221; PennDOT spokeswoman Elizabeth Fabri said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews will rehabilitate its sub-structure and repair its deck and sidewalk, Fabri said.<\/p>\n<p>Pedestrians will be able to cross, PennDOT officials said, while vehicles will be detoured along 7th Avenue to Lackawanna Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The project, primarily paid for with federal funding, comes as Dunmore-based PennDOT District 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2026-04-08\/penndot-plans-record-655-million-of-new-road-and-bridge-work-across-nepa-in-2026\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">has a record $655 million in work<\/a> planned for its six-county region this year.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"A digital sign alerts motorists to upcoming construction work that will close Scranton's Linden Street Bridge from Wednesday, May 6, 2026 through the rest of the year.\"  width=\"880\" height=\"544\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778007671_471_.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    A digital sign alerts motorists to upcoming construction work that will close Scranton&#8217;s Linden Street Bridge from Wednesday, May 6, 2026 through the rest of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A busy bridge in downtown Scranton will be closed from Wednesday until the end of the year for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-184577","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\/184577","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=184577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}