Beginning Monday, the Hecktown Road bridge over Route 22 in Bethlehem Township will be shut down for more than a year.<\/p>\n
In a social media post, township police said PennDOT will begin replacing the structure Monday with a scheduled completion date of December 2027. The $4.7 million project is part of improvements to Route 22 in Northampton County. They include updates to the interchange with Route 191<\/a> and replacing the Farmersville Road bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n Motorists will use a detour that uses Green Pond and Country Club roads in Bethlehem Township and Hecktown Road in Lower Nazareth Township.<\/p>\n Northampton Community College students should anticipate longer travel times, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beginning Monday, the Hecktown Road bridge over Route 22 in Bethlehem Township will be shut down for more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1994,1391,157,182,139,434,3431,28,432,2155],"class_list":["post-267635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-township","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-penndot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635","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=267635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}