LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Drivers on Route 222 could face major slowdowns this weekend as a lane and an entrance ramp close for bridge repairs.<\/p>\n
PennDOT says the right lane of Route 222 North and the ramp from Route 772 to Route 222 North will close at 7 p.m. Friday near the Brownstown\/Rothsville interchange in West Earl Township.<\/p>\n
Traffic delays are expected throughout the work zone.<\/p>\n
The closures will allow crews to continue concrete and expansion joint repairs on the Route 222 bridge over North Church Street.<\/p>\n
Drivers who normally use the Route 772 ramp to Route 222 North will be detoured along Route 272 (Oregon Pike), Jake Landis Road and Butter Road.<\/p>\n
How long will the closures last?<\/p>\n
PennDOT says crews hope to pour concrete early Sunday morning and reopen the northbound right lane by 6 a.m. Monday, October 12.<\/p>\n
However, if additional time is needed, work could continue until 6 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n
And more closures could be coming later this month.<\/p>\n
PennDOT says crews will eventually move to the entrance ramp portion of the bridge, where two concrete supports need repairs.<\/p>\n
That work could require closing the Route 772 ramp to Route 222 North for several days. The dates have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n
The repairs are part of a larger 3.3-mile Route 222 improvement project through Manheim, Warwick and West Earl townships.<\/p>\n
The project includes repaving, concrete repairs, guiderail improvements and updated road markings and signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Drivers on Route 222 could face major slowdowns this weekend as a lane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-303218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303218","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=303218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}