PennDOT Works to Reduce Wrong-Ways

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is launching an effort to reduce the number of incidents where motorists are driving the wrong way on the Keystone State's highways.

PennDOT is beginning work Monday, July 11 on its $778,000 Safety and Wrong Way Crash Improvement Project.

A subcontractor is to begin installing pavement markings and delineators and then start putting up improved signs a few weeks later.

PennDOT says the project includes adding additional signs on off-ramps and upgrading the reflectivity of current signs.

The work will be done at non signalized off-ramps on Interstates 81, 80 and 84.

High friction surface treatments are planned for part of State Route 309 in Luzerne County.

The project is scheduled for completion in September.