{"id":65917,"date":"2025-12-20T06:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65917\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T06:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T06:23:10","slug":"penndot-announces-opening-of-newly-constructed-green-ridge-street-bridge-department-of-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/65917\/","title":{"rendered":"PennDOT Announces Opening of Newly Constructed Green Ridge Street Bridge | Department of Transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dunmore, PA \u2013 PennDOT has officially opened the newly constructed Green Ridge Street Bridge on Route 6011 in Scranton, Lackawanna County. The project began in early 2024 with the installation of a temporary bridge, which allowed traffic to continue crossing over the Lackawanna River while the new bridge was built.<\/p>\n<p>Work will continue through 2026 as the temporary bridge is removed and new curbs, sidewalks, drainage systems, and traffic signals are installed on the north side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated completion date of the project is the fall of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.511pa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.511PA.com<\/a>. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,200 traffic cameras. 511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by <a href=\"https:\/\/511pa.com\/twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following regional X alerts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find PennDOT\u2019s planned and active construction projects at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/DOTprojects\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.pa.gov\/DOTprojects<\/a>. Subscribe to PennDOT news and find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/penndot\/about-penndot\/results-data\/statewide-results\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transportation results<\/a> in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming counties at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pa.gov\/DOTdistrict4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.pa.gov\/DOTdistrict4<\/a>.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>Find PennDOT news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/penndotnews\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PennsylvaniaDepartmentofTransportation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pennsylvaniadot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/penndot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MEDIA CONTACTS:\u00a0Jessica Ruddy,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jeruddy@pa.gov\">jeruddy@pa.gov<\/a>, (570) 963-4044 or Elizabeth Fabri,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jeruddy@pa.gov\">Efabri@pa.gov<\/a>, (570) 963.3502<\/p>\n<p style=\"&#9;text-align: center;&#10;\"># # #<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dunmore, PA \u2013 PennDOT has officially opened the newly constructed Green Ridge Street Bridge on Route 6011 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-65917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65917","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=65917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}