{"id":74868,"date":"2025-12-31T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74868\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T17:22:10","slug":"speed-limits-reduced-on-erie-county-interstates-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74868\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed limits reduced on Erie County interstates Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WJET\/WFXP)\u2013 Continued winter weather has prompted PennDOT to lower speed limits on Erie County\u2019s interstates to 45 mph and urge residents avoid any unnecessary travel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to speed limits being reduced, PennDOT is restricting commercial vehicles to the right lane only. Those restrictions apply to the following interstates:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Interstate 79 from Exit 141 (Route 285, Geneva\/Cochranton) in Crawford County to the end point in Erie County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Interstate 86 from the New York line to the Interstate 90 interchange in Erie County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Interstate 90 from the Ohio state line to the New York state line in Erie County<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/first-responders-ask-for-community-help-during-winter-weather\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:First responders ask for community help during winter weather;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> First responders ask for community help during winter weather <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Additionally, Interstate 80 eastbound has had its speed limit reduced to 55 mph from Exit 42 (Route 38, Emlenton) in Venango County to Exit 120 (Route 879, Clearfield\/Shawville) in Clearfield County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews are still out treating roadways and PennDOT said they\u2019ll continue to do so until the weather improves and the roads are clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJET\/WFXP)\u2013 Continued winter weather has prompted PennDOT to lower speed limits on Erie County\u2019s interstates to 45 mph&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[16863,136,142,138,137,3431,27262,38551],"class_list":{"0":"post-74868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-clearfield-county","9":"tag-erie","10":"tag-erie-county","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-penndot","14":"tag-speed-limit","15":"tag-speed-limits"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74868","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=74868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}