the replacement of the Cementon Bridge<\/a> that carries Route 329 over the Lehigh River between Whitehall Township and Northampton. The project is estimated to cost $21.7 million.<\/p>\nOther significant projects include:<\/p>\n
Traffic signal improvements on Route 29 in Salisbury Township, $3.8 million.
\nPatching, milling, paving, safety barrier and drainage improvements along I-78 in Allentown, Salisbury and Upper Saucon townships, $37.8 million.
\nImprovements to Route 145 and its intersections through Allentown, $7.36 million.
\nReplacing Route 33 bridges over Bushkill Creek in Palmer Township and Stockertown, $23.2 million.
\nRoute 248 realignment through Bath, $5.42 million.
\nReplacing the two bridges over Route 22 in Bethlehem Township: Hecktown Road ($4.7 million) and Farmersville Road ($4.34 million).
\nRoute 611 Delaware Canal retaining wall replacement in Williams Township, $4.1 million.<\/p>\n
What was completed<\/p>\n
Improvements to I-78 in Upper Macungie and Weisenberg townships, including milling, paving, safety barrier and drainage, $13.4 million.
\nTraffic signal improvements on Route 145\/MacArthur Road in Whitehall Township, $6.6 million.
\nMilling and paving Airport Road in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, and Allentown, $3 million.
\nMilling and patching of I-78 west in Bethlehem and Upper Saucon and Lower Saucon townships, $13.7 million.
\nRehabilitation of the Route 873 bridge over the Lehigh River in Washington and Lehigh townships, $6.9 million.
\nReplacement of the Newburg Road bridges over Monocacy Creek and a tributary in Lower Nazareth and Upper Nazareth townships, $6.2 million.
\nMilling and paving of Route 191 in Nazareth and Stockertown, and Palmer and Upper Nazareth townships, $3.52 million.
\nMilling and paving of Route 611 in Williams Township, $2.3 million.
\nReplacement of the Lower South Main Street Bridge over Martins Creek in Washington Township, Northampton County, $1.9 million.
\nMilling and paving of Route 191 in Bethlehem and Lower Nazareth townships, $1.6 million.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the region<\/p>\n
Other notable projects in District 5 that are ongoing include:<\/p>\n
Constructing a roundabout at Route 222 and Long Lane in Maxatawny Township, Berks County, $9 million.
\nReplacing the Interstate 80 bridge over the Lehigh River between East Side, Carbon County, and White Haven, Luzerne County, $120 million.
\nRealigning the Prospect Street exit on I-80 in East Stroudsburg, $93.8 million.
\nReconstruction of Route 61 between Frackville and St. Clair in Schuylkill County, $115 million.<\/p>\n
Morning Call reporter Evan Jones can be reached at ejones@mcall.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For those people commuting to the Lehigh Valley from the west on Interstate 78, it seems every time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,349,5523,433,182,2941,139,434,28,231,432,2155],"class_list":{"0":"post-55040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-berks-county","12":"tag-carbon-county","13":"tag-lehigh-county","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-monroe-county","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-northampton-county","18":"tag-pennsylvania","19":"tag-schuylkill-county","20":"tag-top-stories-tmc","21":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55040","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=55040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}