STOCKERTOWN, Pa. – If you have to drive on Route 33, it might be slow-going in one part of Northampton County.<\/p>\n
Cars and trucks were crawling down Route 33 headed south near Stockertown on Monday. PennDOT is replacing the bridge over Bushkill Creek and taking Rte. 33 down to one lane while they do it.<\/p>\n
It’s not making it easy for local Colin Weiss to get to his bartending job at The Goat in Stockertown.<\/p>\n
“This is kind of a difficult spot, because it’s such, like, a choke point up here. There’s only so many ways in and out of this area,” said Weiss. “I would always be plugging in Google Maps, trying to find the quickest way here.”<\/p>\n
Weiss drives up from Allentown, and he said for him, it was actually worse back in July and August when work was being done on the northbound side.<\/p>\n
“It’s about a 30-minute drive, but with the construction, like I said on the northbound side, I had to leave about another half hour before. So, it took me about an hour, hour and ten minutes to get up here,” said Weiss.<\/p>\n
PennDOT expects the more than $20 million construction to finally be complete on November 9th. Weiss said, for him, that’s actually good news.<\/p>\n
“I was expecting it to be a lot longer, so shout-out to the workers out there, working 24\/7, it seems like. Appreciate them,” said Weiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STOCKERTOWN, Pa. – If you have to drive on Route 33, it might be slow-going in one part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,44287,29498,21340,53,434,3431,37038,44123,125315,69387],"class_list":["post-305344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bridge-replacement","tag-bushkill-creek","tag-commute","tag-construction","tag-northampton-county","tag-penndot","tag-route-33","tag-stockertown","tag-the-goat","tag-traffic-backup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305344","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=305344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}