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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Engineering District 5 announced today a project to improve PA 61 between University Drive and Brick Hill Road in Orwigsburg Borough, North Manheim and West Brunswick townships, Schuylkill County will begin Monday, May 24.

Work on the project includes roadway milling, patching, paving, bridge deck waterproofing, new guiderail, and line painting.

Motorists can anticipate lane restrictions on this section of PA 61 during the project and can visit www.511PA.com to check for traffic delay information. Updates will be provided whenever traffic patterns change.   

Allan Myers, LP of Worcester, Pa., is the general contractor on the $6,176,177 project that is anticipated to be complete in November.      

This section of PA 61 has an average daily traffic volume that varies between 12,578 (6,316 northbound and 6,262 southbound) vehicles near Brick Hill Road and 21,118 (10,866 northbound and 10,952 southbound) vehicles near University Drive.

Work on this project will be in accordance with Centers for Disease Control and state Department of Health guidance as well as a project-specific COVID-19 safety plan, which will include protocols for social distancing, use of face coverings, personal and job-site cleaning protocols, management of entries to the jobsite, and relevant training.

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.    511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional Twitter alerts accessible on the 511PA website.

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

Information about infrastructure in District 5, including completed work and significant projects, is available at www.penndot.gov/D5Results. Find PennDOT’s planned and active construction projects at www.projects.penndot.gov.     Follow PennDOT on Twitter at www.twitter.com/PennDOTNews and like the department on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PensylvaniaDepartmentofTransportation and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/pennsylvaniadot.    MEDIA CONTACT: Ronald J. Young, Jr., M.P.A., 610-871-4555, ronyoung@pa.gov; Sean A. Brown, 610-871-4556, sebrown@pa.gov.

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