bring up to 5 inches of snow to the Lehigh Valley<\/a>, and potentially more north of the region, in the Poconos. PennDOT said in a news release that snowfall rates could reach a half an inch or three-quarters of an inch of snow per hour.<\/p>\nRoad crews are pre-treating roads ahead of the storm to prevent ice from forming.<\/p>\n
PennDOT said there will be Tier 1 restrictions on the following roads beginning 5 a.m. Tuesday:<\/p>\n
Route 22 from Interstate 78 to the New Jersey border
\nPennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension Interstate 476 from the Lehigh Valley exit to the Clarks Summit exit
\nRoute 33
\nInterstate 180
\nInterstate 81 from I-78 to the New York border
\nI-80 from the Lamar exit to the New York border
\nInterstate 84<\/p>\n
Under Tier 1 restrictions, the following vehicles are not allowed on affected roads:<\/p>\n
Tractors without trailers
\nTractors towing unloaded or lightly loaded enclosed trailers, open trailers or tank trailers
\nTractors towing unloaded or lightly loaded tandem trailers
\nEnclosed unloaded or lightly loaded cargo delivery trucks
\nPassenger vehicles towing trailers
\nRecreational vehicles
\nSchool buses, commercial buses and motor coaches
\nMotorcycles<\/p>\n
Speed limits will also be reduced to 45 mph on these roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PennDOT has implemented a number of restrictions on various roads ahead of a winter storm expected to hit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,433,182,139,434,28,29,432,2155,1133],"class_list":["post-49331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-transportation","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49331","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=49331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}