{"id":234877,"date":"2026-07-03T18:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234877\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T18:03:14","slug":"major-lehigh-county-roads-including-routes-100-and-145-to-see-closures-for-penndot-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234877\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Lehigh County roads, including Routes 100 and 145, to see closures for PennDOT work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motorists in Lehigh County<\/a> will encounter several road closures and lane restrictions throughout July as PennDOT<\/a> and contractors conduct maintenance and construction work across the region, PennDOT said in a traffic advisory.<\/p>\n

Several major closures will affect traffic flow in Allentown and surrounding communities. Route 145 North\/Susquehanna Street between Fifth Street and Brookdale Street in Allentown will be closed around the clock from July 13 to July 17 for construction work related to the ongoing Route 145 improvement project. Traffic will be detoured using Fourth Street and Auburn Street.<\/p>\n

In Macungie, Routes 100 between Race Street and Thorn Street will close July 11 through July 12 for railroad grade crossing replacement. The detour will use Route 222, Interstate 78, Lehigh Street, Chestnut Street and Buckeye Road.<\/p>\n

The Interstate 78 East off ramp at Exit 55 for Cedar Crest Boulevard in Salisbury Township will close from Friday evening through Monday morning, July 17 to July 20. Drivers will detour to Exit 54 at Route 222, then follow Route 222 to Cedar Crest Boulevard.<\/p>\n

PennDOT maintenance forces will conduct daytime lane restrictions with flagging on Route 29 between the Berks County line and Cedar Crest Boulevard from July 6 to July 7, affecting Upper Milford Township, Emmaus and Salisbury Township. Work will take place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

Lower Macungie Road between Route 29\/South Cedar Crest Boulevard and Hamilton Boulevard will have daytime lane restrictions from July 7 to July 10 in Upper Macungie and Lower Macungie townships. The work will occur between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

Additional daytime lane restrictions will affect Haasadahl Road between Hilltop Road and Route 309 in Lower Macungie Township from July 13 to July 17, and Coffeetown Road between Orefield Road and Levans Road in North Whitehall and South Whitehall township from July 15 to July 17.<\/p>\n

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Nighttime construction work will create lane restrictions on southbound Cedar Crest Boulevard at Interstate 78 in Salisbury Township from July 6 to July 31 between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m.<\/p>\n

Pothole patching on Route 940 between Route 423 and the Carbon County line will cause nighttime lane restrictions from July 5 to July 6 between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. This project may experience weather-related delays.<\/p>\n

Motorists can check conditions on major roadways at www.511PA.com<\/a>. The service provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras. It is available through smartphone applications for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following local alerts on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists in Lehigh County will encounter several road closures and lane restrictions throughout July as PennDOT and contractors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-234877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234877","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=234877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}