Article: Lower Macungie asks county to put bridge work on 12-year plan: Traffic on span often backs up on Cedar Crest Boulevard.

Byline: Randy Kraft

Sep. 9--Relieving a traffic bottleneck near the south end of heavily traveled Cedar Crest Boulevard would cost millions of dollars and may not happen for many years -- if ever.

But Lower Macungie has taken the first step, by asking the Lehigh Valley Transportation Study to put widening or replacing the road's bridge over Little Lehigh Creek on its 12-year plan.

The study is a transportation committee that determines top priority projects in Lehigh and Northampton counties.

The Cedar Crest/Lower Macungie Road intersection is at the north end of the bridge.

The proposed solution is to widen the bridge and add ...

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