{"id":286640,"date":"2026-09-15T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286640\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T18:14:08","slug":"i-81-southbound-passing-lane-to-close-thursday-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/286640\/","title":{"rendered":"I-81 southbound passing lane to close Thursday in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF)  \u2014 Drivers should expect a passing-lane closure on southbound Interstate 81 Thursday for bridge deck repairs.<\/p>\n<p>The restriction is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. between the Moosic exit, Exit 180, and the Avoca\/Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport exit, Exit 178.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists should expect possible delays, allow extra travel time and consider alternate routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Drivers should expect a passing-lane closure on southbound Interstate 81 Thursday for bridge deck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-286640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286640","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=286640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}