A resurfacing project along a busy stretch of Route 222 in Ephrata and West Earl townships is scheduled to begin early next month.
Shoulders will be closed where workers place long-term work zone signs along the highway this week, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
The $6.3 million project will stretch from the Pool Road overpass in West Earl Township, where an average of 57,000 vehicles use that section of the highway each day, to the Mohler Church Road overpass in Ephrata Township, where the average number of vehicles per day there is 38,500, according to a PennDOT spokesman.
Work will include milling, paving, base repairs, concrete patching, guide rail upgrades, drainage, signs and pavement markings.
PennDOT announces construction to resume on these highways in Perry County
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has announced that a roundabout project will resume construction in Perry County.
The project is at the intersection of Route 34 and Route 850, also known as Spring Road and Valley Road, and Pisgah State Road, located at Shermans Dale in Carrol Township.
“Weather permitting, work will resume the week beginning Monday, March 22, with widening on Route 34,” reads a PennDOT press release. “Work hours are from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. Traffic will be restricted to a single lane under flagging. Due to a width restriction on Route 34, a long-term truck detour will be in place using Route 34, Route 944, Interstate 81, Route 11/15, and Route 850.”
But sometimes it seems like no two residents call that place by the same name.
Is it Lincoln Highway East? Or just Lincoln Highway? How about Route 30 East? Or just Route 30? Or the corridor? Or the strip?
By any name, the stretch of road and businesses between Route 896 and Strasburg Pike â home to Dutch Wonderland, American Music Theatre, Tanger and Rockvale outlets, hotels and restaurants â is the core of the countyâs tourist industry plus a commercial hub for local residents too.
The 2.5-mile corridor is so important that township officials are leading a multi-year, multi-million-dollar project to make it safer, calmer and more inviting to travel by adding walking trails and bicycle paths, narrowing vehicle-travel lanes, coordinating traffic signals based on traffic and taking other steps.
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