{"id":94945,"date":"2026-01-23T20:34:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94945\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:34:22","slug":"easton-declares-snow-emergency-parking-banned-on-designated-routes-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/94945\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton declares snow emergency; parking banned on designated routes | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

EASTON, Pa. – The City of Easton has declared a snow emergency due to winter weather that is expected to significantly impact travel and roadway safety in the region.<\/p>\n

The emergency is effective beginning Saturday, January 24 at 5 p.m. through Tuesday, January 27 at noon.<\/p>\n

During the event, parking is prohibited on all designated snow emergency routes, and vehicles parked in violation of posted restrictions may be ticketed and\/or towed at the owner\u2019s expense. Parking may not resume on these routes until the emergency is lifted.<\/p>\n

The routes are posted with snow emergency signage and are published on the City of Easton website, including an official route map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Easton residents who live along snow emergency routes are permitted to park in either the S. Third Street Garage or the N. 4th Street Garage beginning at 5 p.m. on Saturday the 24th without charge. Snow emergency patrons are required to have their vehicles removed by 12 p.m. on 1\/27. Any vehicles found illegally parked in the garage for this event will be charged accordingly.<\/p>\n

Trash and recycling pickup will be postponed by one day all week starting Tuesday 1\/27. The city\u2019s drop-off recycling center on Bushkill Drive will be closed on Sunday, Tuesday, & Thursday next week.<\/p>\n

Easton residents are strongly encouraged to:<\/p>\n

Avoid non-essential travel during the storm.<\/p>\n

Remove vehicles from snow emergency routes.<\/p>\n

Clear snow from sidewalks and fire hydrants adjacent to their property.<\/p>\n

Allow additional time for emergency responders and plow operations.<\/p>\n

Residents are also reminded not to throw snow onto plowed streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – The City of Easton has declared a snow emergency due to winter weather that is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2181,46605,28,14834,29512],"class_list":["post-94945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton","tag-non-essential-travel","tag-pennsylvania","tag-snow","tag-snow-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94945","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=94945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}