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Traffic help for Penn State football fans: Check out this ‘enhanced’ travel site

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Traffic help for Penn State football fans: Check out this ‘enhanced’ travel site

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Penn State football fans are encouraged to check out new, specialized travel information on PennDOT’s website, 511PA.com, before heading to Beaver Stadium.

Beginning with today’s home-opener against Bowling Green, 511PA site and mobile app will include real-time travel information for every Penn State home football game. The football-related portion of the site will be updated, regularly, from the Thursday before each home game through the Monday after.

The Penn State football page is dedicated to monitoring traffic conditions on the primary travel routes to the game. Travel times and alerts are provided for each parking zone: West Zone (access via Atherton Street to Park Avenue); East Zone (access via U.S. 322/I-99 to Park Avenue); North Zone (access via Fox Hollow Road); and South Zone (access via University Drive and Porter Road from College Avenue/U.S. 26).

“Our goal is to help motorists plan ahead by providing them with as much information as possible.” … To help them more easily plan the route that works best for them,” said PennDOT secretary Mike Carroll said in a PennDOT press release.

The page includes the average travel time for the primary route as well as alternate routes. Users can see incidents, construction, weather forecasts and alerts, traffic cameras, and traffic speeds on the map. The page also includes the 2024 Beaver Stadium Parking Map.

These projects, meanwhile, could impact traffic during the home football schedule:

Penn State football traffic delays: Centre County

∎ On Atherton Street, work is ongoing between College Avenue and White Course Drive. The eastbound lanes heading toward Boalsburg are open while the right westbound lanes heading toward North Atherton Street are closed.

Starting in mid-September there will only be one lane open in each direction while the contractor works in the center lane. PennDOT expects this work to take approximately two weeks.

∎ A bridge replacement project along I-80 between mile markers 165 and 166 is ongoing. The right (travel) lane is closed on the eastbound and westbound sides. This traffic pattern will be in place for the rest of this construction season.

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Penn State football traffic delays: Juniata County

A bridge preservation project has reduced traffic to one lane for more than a mile between Port Royal and Mifflintown. PennDOT expects to reopen both lanes in early October.

Frank Bodani covers Penn State football for the York Daily Record and USA Today Network. Contact him at  fbodani@ydr.com and follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @YDRPennState.

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