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After a development phase that’s lasted nearly two years, a new Starbucks on Main Street in Hellertown is nearly complete and anxious to receive its certificate of occupancy (CO).
A section of Spring Valley Road in Upper Saucon Township will be closed for a bridge repair project beginning March 10, PennDOT has announced.
A wall along the east side of a small bridge across the Black River in Lower Saucon Township collapsed over the weekend, leading to questions about whether traffic on it may be restricted.
It wasn’t a happy accident for the people involved in it, but according to authorities cited in a local news story, the car crash that happened on Rt. 378 near the I-78 overpass in Lower Saucon Township Wednesday morning may have been a blessing in disguise.
The Lehigh Valley is expected to be on the northwestern fringe of a major winter storm weather forecasters believe will blow up along the Eastern seaboard Friday night, but locally, travel conditions may still be hazardous.
If you regularly travel through parts of South Bethlehem and Fountain Hill, gas main work that’s now under way may impact your travels in the coming weeks and months.
A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said Monday that a closed section of Rt. 611 in Northampton and upper Bucks counties could reopen “sometime in the next month or two,” while acknowledging that regardless of when the road reopens it won’t be “soon enough for the thousands of motorists that rely upon it.”
As a result of a recent PennDOT bridge inspection on Spring Valley Road in Upper Saucon Township, trips down the rural lane will take a bit longer for at least six months.
Motorists who’ve been hoping for a quick end to gas main work on Rt. 378 in Bethlehem and Lower Saucon Townshp that has been ongoing for months will likely be disappointed to learn that the project won’t be completed until sometime next spring.
A heavily-traveled section of Rt. 611 in Northampton and Bucks counties has been closed due to damage caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ida, PennDOT announced Friday.