{"id":255780,"date":"2026-07-30T20:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255780\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:51:37","slug":"route-309-closed-in-south-whitehall-for-extended-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255780\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 309 closed in South Whitehall for &#8216;extended&#8217; period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stretch of Route 309 in South Whitehall Township is closed Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>South Whitehall Township Police posted on their social media channels just before 2 p.m. that the highway would be closed for an \u201cextended\u201d amount of time in both directions between Snowdrift Road and Chapmans\/Pope Road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/511pa.com\/list\/events\/traffic?start=0&amp;length=25&amp;filters%5B0%5D%5Bi%5D=4&amp;filters%5B0%5D%5Bs%5D=Lehigh&amp;order%5Bi%5D=8&amp;order%5Bdir%5D=desc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to 511PA.com<\/a>, the closure is due to a downed utility line.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged motorists to avoid the area and seek alternate routes. They were also advised to allow for additional travel time.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stretch of Route 309 in South Whitehall Township is closed Thursday afternoon. South Whitehall Township Police posted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-255780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255780","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=255780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}