{"id":223912,"date":"2026-06-20T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223912\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:34:08","slug":"traffic-switch-tonight-on-i-80-times-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223912\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic switch tonight on I-80 \u2013 Times News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published June 20. 2026 09:00AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in coordination with Bridging Pennsylvania Developers I will implement a traffic switch tonight on Interstate 80 as part of the I-80 Lehigh River Bridge Project in Carbon and Luzerne counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">At 9 p.m., weather permitting, the contractor will shift the current I-80 eastbound traffic to the left to place a latex modified concrete overlay on the right side of the new eastbound bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Motorists should expect a short-term lane closure during the traffic switch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Drivers should remain alert for changing traffic patterns, follow all posted signs and allow extra time when traveling through the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The I-80 bridge is being replaced in both directions over the Lehigh River, Lehigh Gorge State Park, Reading &amp; Northern Railroad and River Road in East Side Borough, Carbon County and White Haven Borough, Luzerne County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The project, with a cost of $148 million, is expected to be competed in the summer of 2028.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">This project is part of the ongoing PennDOT Major Bridges P3 Program. Motorists can check conditions on major roadway miles by visiting www.511PA.com, which is free and available 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published June 20. 2026 09:00AM The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in coordination with Bridging Pennsylvania Developers I will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-223912","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\/223912","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=223912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}