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    Work to Resume on PA 61 in Schuylkill County

    April 04, 2024

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    The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Engineering District 5 announced today work is scheduled to resume Sunday (April 7) on a project to improve PA 61 between University Drive and Mill Creek Avenue in North Manheim Township, City of Pottsville, Palo Alto and Schuylkill Haven Boroughs, Schuylkill County.

    Work on the project includes roadway milling, roadway base repairs, paving, guide rail updates, Americans with Disabilities Act compliant curb ramps, and new pavement markings. 

    Motorists should expect nighttime lane restrictions on PA 61 between Mt. Carbon Arch Road and Mall Road from 7:00 PM to 6:00 AM, Sundays through Thursdays. Motorists should allow for extra time to travel though the area and can visit www.511PA.com to check for traffic delay information. Updates will be provided whenever traffic patterns change.  
      
    Allan A. Myers, LP of Worcester, Pa., is the general contractor on the $7,026,789 project that began in February 2023 and is anticipated to be complete in July.       

    This section of PA 61 has an average daily traffic volume that varies between 6,128 and 12,350 vehicles northbound and between 5,478 and 10,370 vehicles southbound. 

    For more information on projects occurring or being bid this year, those made possible by or accelerated by the state transportation funding plan (Act 89), or those on the department's Four and Twelve Year Plans, visit www.projects.penndot.gov.

    Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.

    Subscribe to PennDOT news and traffic alerts in Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and Schuylkill counties at www.penndot.govDistrict5.

    Find PennDOT’s planned and active construction projects at www.projects.penndot.gov.

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    MEDIA CONTACT: Ronald J. Young, Jr., 610-871-4555, ronyoung@pa.gov; Sean A. Brown, 610-871-4556, sebrown@pa.gov.

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