December 10, 2021 - Pittston Township, PA
State Rep. Mike Carroll, Democratic Chair of the Pennsylvania House Transportation Committee, joinedleadersfromthePennsylvania Turnpike Commission(PTC)and other transportation officials to announce that the engineering-design work on the Scranton Beltway Project has resumed now that the PTC has largely been released from a 2007 state mandate to provide $450 million annually to PennDOT to fund transit operations statewide."I am glad to be here today to announce that the PA Turnpike Commission has agreed to restart design work on the Scranton Beltway after a hiatus," Rep. Carroll said. "The project had been stalled because the Commission was forced to cut capital spending to comply with the law to fund transit."This $160 million project involves building highway-speed ramps between Interstate 81 and the Turnpike's Northeastern Extension to form a seamless beltway around Scranton. A joint undertaking involving the PTC and PennDOT Engineering District 4, the beltway will be formed by two connections linking the Turnpike and I-81 - one south of Scranton in Dupont Borough and Pittston Township, and a second connection north of Scranton in South Abington Township.
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