{"id":276880,"date":"2026-09-01T23:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276880\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:40:59","slug":"pennsylvania-turnpike-predicts-nearly-3-million-travelers-for-labor-day-holiday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276880\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Turnpike predicts nearly 3 million travelers for Labor Day holiday weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WOLF) \u2014 Officials with the Pennsylvania Turnpike have released their projected numbers for Labor Day holiday weekend traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission predicts 2.9 million customers will be on the Pennsylvania Turnpike system between Thursday, Sept. 3 and Monday, Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The projection is a 1.2 percent increase compared to 2025 volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also announced Pennsylvania State Police will have extra patrols during the holiday period.<\/p>\n<p>The PA Turnpike is also reminding drivers to practice safe driving habits, including following posted speed limits, keeping safe distances and removing distractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WOLF) \u2014 Officials with the Pennsylvania Turnpike have released their projected numbers for Labor Day holiday weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-276880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276880","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=276880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}