{"id":89148,"date":"2026-01-17T03:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89148\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:46:08","slug":"roadway-down-to-1-lane-on-stretch-of-route-33-south-due-to-sinkhole-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89148\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadway down to 1 lane on stretch of Route 33 South due to sinkhole | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; PennDOT says a sinkhole opened up on a stretch of Route 33 southbound in Northampton County Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are on site at\u00a0mile marker 8.7\u00a0with equipment to excavate around the hole and fill if needed, PennDOT spokesperson Sean Brown said. That&#8217;s between the Stockertown\/Nazareth and Tatamy exits.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Roadway down to 1 lane on stretch of Route 33 South due to sinkhole\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696a885f96e18.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>33 South is currently down to one lane, and crews will try to do the work with one lane open,\u00a0Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>At last check, crews are expected to be out on this part of Route 33 until after midnight, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Roadway down to 1 lane on stretch of Route 33 South due to sinkhole\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696a883eccdfa.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Rich Rolen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; PennDOT says a sinkhole opened up on a stretch of Route 33 southbound in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,434,1704],"class_list":{"0":"post-89148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-northampton-county","13":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89148","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=89148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}