{"id":71310,"date":"2025-12-27T01:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71310\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T01:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:09:08","slug":"lanta-suspending-bus-service-as-snow-ice-cause-slick-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71310\/","title":{"rendered":"LANTA suspending bus service as snow, ice cause slick roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Valley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/12\/26\/allentown-weather-snow-update-winter-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">road conditions are continuing to deteriorate Friday night<\/a>, prompting the area\u2019s transit agency to suspend bus service.<\/p>\n<p>LANTA, in a news release, said it would stop picking up passengers on its bus routes as of 8 p.m., though buses would continue dropping off passengers until reaching the next major transit center, or the end of the route. LANTA\u2019s van service will do its last pickups at 8 p.m. as well.<\/p>\n<p>With snow, sleet and even some freezing rain expected to continue through the night, LANTA\u2019s bus and van services will also have a delayed start of 5 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Slick roads are leading to several crashes around the region Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>One crash was reported with people trapped inside a vehicle on Route 22 westbound near the Route 309 interchange in South Whitehall Township just after 6 p.m., according to emergency radio dispatches. Another vehicle was reported to have gone off the road on Route 22 westbound through \u201cCemetery Curve\u201d in Easton.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a two-vehicle crash was reported on Nazareth Pike (Route 191) at the Route 22 interchange in Bethlehem Township, according to the Northampton County Emergency Alerts Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2025\/12\/24\/pa-road-restrictions-winter-storm-snow-friday-saturday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ahead of the storm, PennDOT issued Tier 3 vehicle restrictions on the following roads<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Interstate 78<br \/>\nRoute 22 between I-78 and Route 33<br \/>\nRoute 33, entire length<br \/>\nI-81, north of I-83.<br \/>\nPennsylvania Turnpike (I-76, I-276 and I-476)<\/p>\n<p>Under Tier 3 restrictions, all commercial vehicles are prohibited except loaded single trailers with chains or approved traction devices. School buses, commercial buses, motor coaches, motorcycles, RVs and vehicles towing trailers are also prohibited.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT said additional restrictions, including reduced speed limits, are possible during the storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley road conditions are continuing to deteriorate Friday night, prompting the area\u2019s transit agency to suspend bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,182,139,434,28,432,1133],"class_list":{"0":"post-71310","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-lehigh-county","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northampton-county","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-top-stories-tmc","17":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71310","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=71310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}