{"id":55166,"date":"2025-12-08T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55166\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T13:19:06","slug":"bridge-in-whitehall-twp-reopens-after-penndot-project-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/55166\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge in Whitehall Twp. reopens after PennDOT project | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Cementon Bridge on Route 329 is back open after an ongoing replacement project this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge that crosses over the Lehigh River was part of one of Pennsylvania&#8217;s largest transportation investments in years.<\/p>\n<p>The Shapiro Administration and PennDOT put more than $1 billion towards infrastructure improvements across East Central Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>$21.7 million of those funds went towards the Cementon Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say many of the projects have been in planning for years. They are targeted to improve safety, address aging infrastructure, and support long-term growth in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Cementon Bridge on Route 329 is back open after an ongoing replacement project&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,1704],"class_list":{"0":"post-55166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-allentown-area","13":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55166","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=55166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}