{"id":261116,"date":"2026-08-07T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261116\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:40:07","slug":"cementon-bridge-over-lehigh-river-to-close-for-weekend-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261116\/","title":{"rendered":"Cementon Bridge over Lehigh River to close for weekend in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cementon Bridge over the Lehigh River will be closed for a weekend later in August as a replacement project continues.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT said the bridge that carries Route 329 between Whitehall Township and Northampton will be closed from 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 21 until 5 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>A detour will use Main Street, Kreidersville Road, Walnut Drive, Route 248, Blue Mountain Drive, Route 145 and Second Street.<\/p>\n<p>Rainy weather will not delay the work, PennDOT said.<\/p>\n<p>Crews began constructing the 585-foot-long bridge that carries Route 329 over the Lehigh River in March 2023, replacing a 90-year-old span that was in poor condition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/12\/08\/the-new-cementon-bridge-is-open-for-traffic-after-two-year-reconstruction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The new span opened in December<\/a> and demolition work began on the older span, which was mostly completed in July.<\/p>\n<p>The $21.7 million project is expected to continue through 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cementon Bridge over the Lehigh River will be closed for a weekend later in August as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,433,2776,157,182,139,4729,434,3431,28,432,2155,1653,1654],"class_list":["post-261116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lehigh-river","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton","tag-northampton-county","tag-penndot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-transportation","tag-whitehall-area","tag-whitehall-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261116","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=261116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}