Drivers, take note: The Race Street Bridge over the Lehigh River, connecting Whitehall Township and Catasauqua Borough, is closed and will remain so until the end of August.

The span between Lehigh Avenue in Whitehall and Lehigh Street in Catasauqua closed July 10 as a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation crew began bridge repairs. Work, which will include removal and replacement of the bridge deck and sidewalk, repairs to bridge beams, paving the bridge approaches and new signage and pavement markings, is expected to be completed Aug. 23.

Travelers will be detoured around the road work. Eastbound drivers will take Lehigh Avenue to Main Street to First Avenue to Pine Street to Second Street. Westbound cars will utilize Front Street to Pine Street to First Avenue to Race Street.

The truck detour includes First Avenue, Third Street, Fullerton Avenue, North Front Street, American Parkway, North Bradford Street, Dauphin Street and Lehigh Street.

The pedestrian detour will take walkers from Race Street to First Street to Main Street to Pine Street to Front Street.

In conjunction with the bridge work, there will be a temporary traffic signal installed at the intersection of Race and Second streets along the detour route.

Whitehall Township also reported there will be timing adjustments to the traffic lights at Pine and Front streets and First Avenue and Main Street.

Rain is not expected to cause delays.

This work is part of the $6,123,926 project to rehabilitate the Race Street Bridge over the Lehigh River. The primary contractor on the project is PKF-Mark III Inc., of Newtown.

The Race Street Bridge is a four-span, 386-footlong, steel I-beam bridge originally built in 1957. The average daily traffic is 10,691 vehicles.