{"id":193798,"date":"2026-05-15T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193798\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T23:22:13","slug":"pennsylvania-dot-warns-about-lane-restrictions-on-i-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/193798\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania DOT warns about lane restrictions on I-81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">LACKAWANNA COUNTY, PA (WIVT\/WBGH) \u2013 I-81 southbound will be seeing left lane restrictions starting on Monday May 18th through May 21st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. the highway will see construction daily for patching and crack sealing. This will occur in Luzerne County between Exit 180 (Moosic) and Exit 165 (Mountain Top\/Wilkes-Barre)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Pennsylvania department of transportation asks for drivers to proceed with caution, follow the posted speed limit and turn on their headlights.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drivers can check the Pennsylvania DOT\u2019s website for more information on planned and active construction projects at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/penndot\/projects-near-you\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Projects Near You | Department of Transportation | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Projects Near You | Department of Transportation | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Projects Near You | Department of Transportation | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.binghamtonhomepage.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WIVT - News 34.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WIVT - News 34.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WIVT &#8211; News 34. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LACKAWANNA COUNTY, PA (WIVT\/WBGH) \u2013 I-81 southbound will be seeing left lane restrictions starting on Monday May 18th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[201,59144,803,539,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-193798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-lane-restrictions","tag-luzerne-county","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193798","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=193798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}