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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.

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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.

About time they installed that US 15 at the Maryland Line has had there since sometime last summer because I noticed it when Steph and I started our move up to Hershey from middle Tennessee

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I was driving on the 30 bypass in Chester County the other day for the first time in a while, and, while driving eastbound, I could swear I saw a new roadside sign just before the PA 100 exit for "US 322 Alternate Truck east" directing trucks to exit at PA 100. I know the 322 Alt. Truck route already exists on the 30 bypass, though it is further west in Downingtown, but I presume they might have now extended it east to run on the bypass all the way to PA 100, then down south to US 202 and meeting back up with US 322. I have seen multiple occasions before where people have actually requested for the entire US 322 designation to be moved onto this routing, as taking the all-freeway 30 east-->100 south-->202 south route is actually quicker (and safer for trucks) to go from Downingtown to West Chester than using the current two-lane 322 "Downingtown Pike" route through the woods.

I presume what compelled PennDOT to do this was the recent incident where a truck on that strange "super-2" segment of 322 along the northern edge of West Chester borough struck the Pottstown Pike overpass over a year ago, and they have been having to work on rehabbing that bridge since then.

Similarly, right in the area, they created "PA 352 Alt. Truck" about a year ago for the similar reason to avoid that terrible rail overpass in Frazer right before PA 352's northern terminus with US 30.

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I was driving on the 30 bypass in Chester County the other day for the first time in a while, and, while driving eastbound, I could swear I saw a new roadside sign just before the PA 100 exit for "US 322 Alternate Truck east" directing trucks to exit at PA 100.

I think you are referring to this.  It has been around for a while to keep trucks off of Boot Road, which was part of US 322 TRUCK.   If there is a new alternate truck route sign, that seems to be an indication that this reroute may be permanent....