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(For PA 14) PennDOT - District 3 News: Route 14 Bridge Replacement Project Set to Begin Next Week in Trout Run, Lycoming County

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(For I-80)  PennDOT - District 5 News: Interstate 80 Reconstruction Projects Moving Forward in Monroe County

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(For I-476) PennDOT - District 6 News: PennDOT to Host Public Meetings for the Interstate 476 Flex Lane Project

What I don't understand about the flex lanes is that 476 is a different case from 76. Making flex lanes for 76 actually makes some sense due to the geography and the severely obsolete design of the roadway preventing actual widening. But wasn't the 4-lane portion of 476 literally built with wide enough medians and bridges in anticipation that people would complain soon after it was built for it to be widened to 6 lanes?  I suppose the difference in cost between the flex lanes and actual widening is too high.

Probably easier to push this through than a full-time widening.  Swarthmore put up enough of a fight when the road was built.

The I-95 flex lane is needed just as much, if not more.  Dropping to two lanes temporarily at I-476 really jams up southbound traffic nearly every day of the week.

PennDOT - District 6 News: PennDOT to Host Open House Public Meeting Tomorrow for the Interstate 476 Flex Lane Project in Delaware County

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(For US 322) PennDOT - District 6 News: Bethel Avenue Closure Expected in June

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(For US 219)  PennDOT - District 9 News: Shapiro Administration Acting Swiftly to Restore Travel on U.S. 219 (Mason-Dixon Highway) after Flooding Damaged a Bridge over Piney Creek in Somerset County

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I meant to post this last night, but the welcome sign on I-81 NB entering PA has finally been replaced with the new one.  It is ground-mounted unlike the old one that was mounted to the bridge.

No photo due to myself having just driven into heavy rain when getting to that area yesterday afternoon.

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(For US 219)  PennDOT - District 9 News: Shapiro Administration Acting Swiftly to Restore Travel on U.S. 219 (Mason-Dixon Highway) after Flooding Damaged a Bridge over Piney Creek in Somerset County

I drove the car detour today. Heading southbound, all traffic is forced off the freeway at the southern end of the Meyersdale bypass. Trucks are told to turn around and go northbound to their detour via Somerset. Cars are allowed to re-enter the freeway southbound. There was an unmarked cop car at the northern end of the detour who seemed to be there to enforce the restriction of trucks, as the detour uses roads signed with a 10-ton limit.