Motorists who plan to travel on Interstate 95 in Northeast Philly this weekend or when they return to work next week are advised to allow extra time for their trips. PennDOT has scheduled lane closures for repairs.<\/p>\n
The department also is beginning a project that requires lane closures on Columbus Boulevard in South Philly that will be in effect for nine months.<\/p>\n
MORE:\u00a0PA Turnpike raises tolls for 18th straight year, but E-ZPass users will only have to pay 8 cents more<\/a><\/p>\n Crews on I-95 will be patching the northbound and southbound sides highway between Exit 27 for Allegheny Avenue and Exit 30 for Cottman Avenue.\u00a0The first lane closures on I-95 are scheduled for Saturday morning. No PennDOT work is scheduled for Sunday, and then it resumes Monday through Wednesday.\u00a0Here is the schedule of lane closures PennDOT released earlier this week:\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2022 Saturday, Jan. 3:\u00a0Southbound lane closures between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Separately on Monday, an $8.8 million project begins that will improve the intersections on Packer Avenue at Columbus Boulevard and at Delaware Avenue. The work involves widening the intersection and the installation of a new sidewalk along with other safety and accessibility improvements. Lanes at these intersections will be closed starting Monday and remain closed until Sept. 15.<\/p>\n All closures are dependent on weather. Motorists\u00a0can get real-time updates on PennDOT projects at the department’s\u00a0511 website<\/a>, on\u00a0social media<\/a> or by calling 511.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists who plan to travel on Interstate 95 in Northeast Philly this weekend or when they return to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[39446,344,21481,3431,69,71,70,4325,2155],"class_list":{"0":"post-76637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-columbus-boulevard","9":"tag-delaware-avenue","10":"tag-i-95","11":"tag-penndot","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-road-work","16":"tag-transportation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76637","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=76637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2022 Monday, Jan. 5: Southbound lane closures between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.
\u2022 Tuesday, Jan. 6: Northbound lane closures between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
\u2022 Wednesday, Jan. 7: Northbound lane closures between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.<\/p>\n