{"id":68659,"date":"2025-12-23T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68659\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:38:06","slug":"penndot-reduces-speed-limits-on-highways-as-snow-begins-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68659\/","title":{"rendered":"PennDOT reduces speed limits on highways as snow begins to fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to the winter storm, PennDOT is temporarily reducing the speed limit to 45 mph on the Interstate 81 from Dunmore to the New York state line and Interstate 84 in Lackawanna, Pike, and Wayne counties.<\/p>\n<p>The restriction is to help ensure the interstates remain open during the most challenging conditions of the winter storm, according to a news release. When conditions improve, PennDOT will remove the travel restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Restrictions will be communicated via variable message boards, the 511PA traveler information website at\u00a0www.511PA.com\u00a0and smartphone apps. Motorists can also\u00a0sign up for alerts\u00a0on the website.<\/p>\n<p>While PennDOT recommends not traveling during winter storms, motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles, including color-coded winter conditions on 2,900 miles, by visiting\u00a0www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.\u00a0511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by\u00a0following regional X alerts.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Due to the winter storm, PennDOT is temporarily reducing the speed limit to 45 mph on the Interstate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,139,178,180,179,181,1133],"class_list":["post-68659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68659","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=68659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}