UPDATE: According to a city official, the closure will last up to three weeks. During this time access to the closed road will be restricted to local traffic only.
A well-known “back way” to Hellertown from Bethlehem will be out of service starting Monday.
Signs have been posted alerting motorists that a one-mile section of Creek Road near Lehigh University’s Goodman Campus will be closed to traffic as of Aug. 3.
The section that will be closed stretches from Friedensville Road/Water Street in Lower Saucon Township north to Seidersville Road.
A narrow thoroughfare that retains the atmosphere of a country lane, Creek Road parallels the Saucon Creek and is subject to flooding and the formation of potholes.
It was altered with the addition of speed humps as part of a traffic calming effort.
Calls to the city of Bethlehem’s public works department about the nature and duration of this latest project were not immediately returned on Friday afternoon.
Creek Road is used by many Saucon Valley motorists as a north-south alternative to Route 412, which can become congested due to ongoing construction work related to PennDOT’s $36 million road widening project between I-78 and Daly Avenue in Bethlehem.
A one-mile section of Creek Road in the city of Bethlehem will be closed for road work starting Monday, Aug. 3.