Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 5 recently announced road restrictions for a project to improve the interchange of Route 309 and Tilghman Street in South Whitehall Township.

Motorists can expect lane restrictions on Tilghman Street between 40th Street and just west of Hausman Road.

Restrictions are anticipated between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. weekdays and anytime on weekends.

Motorists are advised to anticipate changing traffic patterns and allow for extra time traveling through the area.

Also, Broadway was scheduled to close this week, but the closure has been postponed until further notice. At some point in the future, it will be closed between Parkway and Hausman roads for approximately four weeks for work around the Route 309 bridge over Broadway. During the closure Broadway traffic will be detoured on Parkway Road, Tilghman Street and Hausman Road.

The project includes the reconfiguration of the Route 309 at Tilghman Street interchange to improve safety and mobility.

It will include two bridge replacements ­— one at Route 309 over Tilghman Street and another at Route 309 over Broadway Street, the rehabilitation of the Route 309 culvert over Little Cedar Creek, roadway drainage improvements, road base repairs, paving, and sidewalks on Tilghman Street.

Two new traffic signals will also be installed at the end of the reconfigured Route 309 ramps to Tilghman Street that will be coordinated with existing signals at the intersections of Hausman Road at Cetronia Road, Tilghman Street at Parkway Road, and Tilghman Street at 40th Street.

Initial work will mostly be utility line relocation work.

For safety and for utility continuity purposes, multiple utility lines need to be relocated before commencement of road and bridge construction work.

This year, utility infrastructure work, drainage facility work, and work to install electrical conduit and foundations for traffic signals is anticipated to begin.

Other work planned this year includes interchange ramp work, erosion and sedimentation controls, embankment work, roadway work on Route 309 and Tilghman Street, barrier installation, and constructing a cul-de-sac at Windsor Drive and Midland Road.

Route 309 in this area has an average daily traffic volume of 57,372 vehicles.

Tilghman Street in this area has an average daily traffic volume of 20,101 vehicles.

Allan Myers, LP of Worcester, is the general contractor on the $86,475,455 project, which is expected to be completed in March 2030.

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