Saucon Source (https://sauconsource.com/category/traffic/)
The 33-year-old truck driver who allegedly caused a wreck on I-78 in Upper Saucon Township that closed the highway and snarled traffic throughout parts of the area for hours Thursday has been cited by Pennsylvania State Police at Fogelsville for following too closely.
The list of pros and cons one can write about I-78 and the effect its had on the Saucon Valley is long. One thing that can’t be denied, however, is that the highway–which opened nearly 30 years ago–changed life here forever.
PennDOT said Thursday that area motorists should expect to encounter “significant delays” on I-78 in Lower Saucon Township over the next week for nighttime road work that will be taking place beginning Friday.
PennDOT said Friday that motorists who travel Main Street in Coopersburg borough should expect delays beginning March 11 and continuing through May 17 for road work related to a UGI gas line project.
In the wake of a winter storm that generally deposited three to four inches of snow on the area early Saturday, another more potent snowstorm is taking aim at the Lehigh Valley.
Traffic in and out of Hellertown this summer is likely to be a bit trickier than usual, with one of the main routes on the borough’s western border shut down to a bridge replacement project.
A mother of school-age children–frustrated with the failure of drivers to stop for one of them as she attempted to cross Hellertown’s Main Street in front of their home–has shared a video of the incident with Saucon Source.
If you live in an area that is prone to power outages you may want to make preparations for the possible loss of electricity due to high winds that are forecast this afternoon and Monday, the National Weather Service says.
Several hundred PPL customers in the Leithsville area of Lower Saucon Township were without power Wednesday afternoon, and the outage was apparently triggered by an accident on a main road in the area.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for 10 a.m. Wednesday to 8 a.m. Thursday, when it says “heavy mixed precipitation” including 3 to 5 inches of snow and up to a tenth of an inch of ice are possible.
In the wake of a winter storm that closed Saucon Valley schools for two days last week the weather turned mild and sunny on Friday, but don’t be fooled. Mother Nature is planning to deliver a one-two punch of winter weather to our area, according to forecasters.
