{"id":255768,"date":"2026-07-30T20:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255768\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:39:08","slug":"pole-and-wires-down-part-of-route-309-in-south-whitehall-township-closed-for-repairs-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255768\/","title":{"rendered":"Pole and wires down, part of Route 309 in South Whitehall Township closed for repairs | Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; Part of Route 309 is closed in South Whitehall Township on Thursday, and drivers can expect an extended closure.<\/p>\n<p>South Whitehall Township police said that Route 309 is currently closed in both directions between\u00a0Snowdrift Road and Chapmans Road \/ Pope Road.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"road closure.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"500\" height=\"590\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6ba27a2cc83.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"236\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police are asking drivers to avoid the area, seek alternate routes, and to allow extra travel time due to the closure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the scene show a pole and wires down across the roadway, with crews and police surrounding it to close off the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"pole down on Route 309\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a6baf1294047.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Nester Video Production for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; Part of Route 309 is closed in South Whitehall Township on Thursday, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,1704],"class_list":["post-255768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255768","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=255768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}