Kathy Liebler                         Director of Public Information

    C   O   M   M   I   S   S   I   O   N                N   E   W   S             R   E   L   E   A   S   E

    Contact: Christina M. Hampton, (610) 279-1645 ext. 3785                        March 27, 1998

ATTENTION RADIO STATIONS:
VOICE ACTUALITIES RELATIVE TO THIS
TRAFFIC ADVISORY ARE AVAILABLE.
PLEASE CALL TIBS, THE TURNPIKE'S
INFORMATION BROADCAST SERVICE AT 1-800-563-5425.

TRAFFIC ADVISORY
LANE CLOSURES AND TRAFFIC STOPPAGES NEAR
VALLEY FORGE INTERCHANGE

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is advising motorists that beginning Tuesday, March 31 through Friday, April 3, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily, there will be 15-minute stoppages and single lane patterns in both the east and westbound lanes approximately 1 1/2 miles east of the Valley Forge Interchange (exit #24). Construction crews will be placing steel beams for the construction of the new Allendale Road Bridge which crosses over the Turnpike (located in Upper Merion Township, in Montgomery County). Traffic stoppages will only occur while beams are being placed.

MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE AWARE OF THE SIGNING
AND THE CHANGING TRAFFIC PATTERNS.

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