The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is reminding drivers that a portion of Route 62\/Route 8 will be closed in the City of Franklin, Venango County starting Friday night.<\/p>\n
The closure is expected to be in place for five days from the start of work at 8:00PM on August 14 until 6:00 AM on August 20, 2026. Nighttime work is anticipated<\/strong> in connection with this phase of the construction, which will happen around the clock, weather permitting, until the road is reopened.<\/p>\n The road will be closed from the intersection of Liberty Street (Route 62\/Route 8) and 14th Street to the split between Route 62 and Route 8 near the top of the 15th Street hill. Access to homes will be maintained.<\/p>\n Drivers should note the detour for passenger vehicles starts at Pone Lane (Route 3021). It will be posted using Route 8, Pone Lane, Congress Hill Road (Route 3021), and Bully Hill Road (Route 3021).<\/p>\n Travelers should note that commercial vehicles are not permitted to use the Bully Hill detour<\/strong>, and the 4.6-mile detour length is measured from one end of the closure to the other.<\/p>\n A separate detour will be posted for larger vehicles and will\u00a0use Route 62, Route 173, and Route 322. The detour length from one point of the closure to the other is 42.9 miles.<\/p>\n The closure is needed to complete intensive reconstruction work at the intersection of Liberty Street and 15th Street as well as updates to the truck ramp on the 15th Street hill as part of the Route 62\/Route 322 Improvement Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n Information on the project is available online at www.pa.gov\/DOTDistrict1<\/a> under the View District 1 Projects<\/a> option at the top of the page.<\/p>\n PennDOT urges drivers to slow down when driving in work zones, and also to be alert to changing conditions, avoid distractions and to pay attention to signs and flaggers. Drive responsibly in work zones for your safety and the safety of the workers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is reminding drivers that a portion of Route 62\/Route 8 will be closed in[…]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Reconstruction Work on the 15th Street Intersection in Franklin Expected to Start on Friday Evening (Separate Detours to be in Place for Passenger and Commercial Vehicles) - Borough of Sugarcreek Press Releases","description":"The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is reminding drivers that a portion of Route 62\/Route 8 will be closed in the City of Franklin, Venango"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-penndot-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarcreekborough.us\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}