{"id":300924,"date":"2026-10-06T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300924\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:38:14","slug":"potential-construction-delays-coming-to-pa-turnpike-i-476-in-carbon-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300924\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential construction delays coming to Pa. Turnpike I-476 in Carbon County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bridge project on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension in Carbon County may cause some traffic delays Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission said the work is part <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paturnpike.com\/traveling\/construction\/site\/milepost-a89-hawk-falls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">of replacing the Hawk Falls Bridge<\/a> on Interstate 476 around mile marker 89. Traffic paces may occur between 8 and 10 a.m. to allow construction crews to control operations on the older structure.<\/p>\n<p>During the paces, turnpike maintenance crews and state police will stop traffic or restrict it to a speed between 20 and 25 mph. Motorists should prepare for slow-moving traffic and possible stoppages.<\/p>\n<p>Message signs will alert drivers for potential paces. Work schedules are subject to change because of weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The turnpike opened a new bridge in May as part of a $88 million project that enhances safety and mobility on I-476. It has two lanes of traffic in each direction with wider shoulders and median width. It averages more than 24,000 vehicles per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bridge project on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension in Carbon County may cause some traffic delays Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5523,182,139,28,4696,22133,178,180,179,432,2155],"class_list":["post-300924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-carbon-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","tag-poconos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300924","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=300924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}