Published August 24. 2026 02:50PM<\/p>\n
J. Karl Witherow, district engineer of the Department of Highways, Allentown office, of which Carbon County is a part, spoke about the future of highway construction and improvements during a meeting held yesterday afternoon at the courthouse in Jim Thorpe.<\/p>\n
Witherow told of Gov. William Scranton\u2019s 10-year, $10-million road improvement program in Pennsylvania, which calls for modernizing 26,000 miles of the 43,000 mile system in the state.<\/p>\n
For the 1965-66 year, he said, Carbon County has been allocated five million dollars. Of this total, $4-million is to be used for the construction of a shortway in the county area, with the balance to be used for general improvements.<\/p>\n
Witherow discussed in part the concepts of Lehighton and Jim Thorpe bypass projects, both of which he said will require feasibility and economic viability studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 24. 2026 02:50PM J. Karl Witherow, district engineer of the Department of Highways, Allentown office, of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-271555","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\/271555","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=271555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}