{"id":275924,"date":"2026-08-31T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275924\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:06:10","slug":"pennsylvania-turnpike-officials-expect-nearly-3m-vehicles-on-the-roadway-for-labor-day-weekend-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275924\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Turnpike officials expect nearly 3M vehicles on the roadway for Labor Day weekend \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Nearly 3 million vehicles are expected to take the Pennsylvania Turnpike to their Labor Day weekend destinations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission expects 2.9 million vehicles to travel the turnpike system from Sept. 3 through Sept. 7. That\u2019s just over 1% more vehicles than last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">To accommodate the increase in traffic, the commission is suspending all roadway construction and maintenance projects starting at 3 p.m. Sept. 3 through 11 p.m. Sept. 7 to ensure maximum travel lane availability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pennsylvania State Police will deploy extra patrols throughout the turnpike system during the holiday weekend, focusing on vehicle speeds, tailgating and overall driving safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Law enforcement will also enforce Paul Miller\u2019s Law, which prohibits the use of hand-held electronic devices while operating a vehicle in Pennsylvania, even while stopped at traffic lights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 3 million vehicles are expected to take the Pennsylvania Turnpike to their Labor Day weekend destinations. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64683,115743,115742,115744,115745,28,30,29,4696,115741,19570,24107],"class_list":["post-275924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-labor-day","tag-labor-day-traffic","tag-labor-day-travel","tag-labor-day-travel-predictions","tag-labor-day-travel-trends","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike-labor-day","tag-turnpike","tag-turnpike-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275924","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=275924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}