{"id":301406,"date":"2026-10-07T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301406\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:30:15","slug":"stretch-of-route-512-in-bangor-closed-due-to-sinkhole-slate-belt-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/301406\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretch of Route 512 in Bangor closed due to sinkhole | Slate Belt Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BANGOR, Pa. &#8211; A sinkhole caused the closure of a road in Bangor, Northampton County.<\/p>\n<p>The sinkhole opened up on Market Street (Route 512) between South 6th\u00a0Street and South 7th\u00a0Street, according to Borough Manager Stephen Reider.<\/p>\n<p>The collapse left that stretch of roadway impassable, resulting in the closure while officials address the situation.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Stretch of Route 512 in Bangor closed due to sinkhole\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ac5257fe05b7.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>Reider said the borough is holding a pre-construction meeting Tuesday, and construction is expected to begin Wednesday. That meeting is part of the timeline officials outlined for starting the repair work.<\/p>\n<p>He said the road could be closed through the end of next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGOR, Pa. &#8211; A sinkhole caused the closure of a road in Bangor, Northampton County. The sinkhole opened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16775,153,155,154,434,6654,124117,26299],"class_list":["post-301406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bangor","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-road-closure","tag-route-512","tag-sinkhole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301406","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=301406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}