Clearfield, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) reminded motorists that the contractor for its High-Speed Interchange project between Interstates 80 and 99 will close a portion of Township Road 758 (Jacksonville Road) between Lyonstown Road and the I-99 interchange starting Wednesday, September 25, and implement a long-term detour. The closure and detour will allow the contractor to conduct large earth-moving operations for a project to enhance traffic safety by providing a direct connection between the two highways, relieving traffic congestion, and realigning service for local traffic.

While this closure is in place, Jacksonville Road will not be accessible from I-99 at the turn near mile marker 85. Instead, traffic will use exit 83/Zion-Bellefonte and follow Route 550 (East Bishop Street) to the intersection of North Wilson Street and North Wilson Street to Jacksonville Road. This detour will allow homeowners along Jacksonville Road to access their properties and patrons to access the following establishments:

• Advance Overhead Garage Door, 188 Jacksonville Road.
• First Baptist Church of Bellefonte, 539 Jacksonville Road.
• Johnstonbaugh Family Day Care, 120 Wiltshire Drive.
• Rooted Farmstead, 138 Scott Avenue.
• Scott's Roasting, 120 Sylvan Acres Lane.
• Wag Your Tail Grooming, 321 Wiltshire Drive. 

PennDOT expects this portion of Jacksonville will remain closed until the project is complete in the 2030 construction season.

PennDOT also reminded motorists who park near the interchange at I-99 that they will no longer be permitted to do so. It placed a changeable message board nearby to alert motorists of the closure.

Overall work on this project includes building the interchange, ten bridges, four retaining walls, five box culverts, seven sign structures, and three changeable message boards. It also includes constructing new and rebuilding existing roadways and ramps, drainage improvements, installing Intelligent Transportation Devices, guide rail and highway lighting, pavement marking, stream improvements, and miscellaneous construction. Work will continue through the next six construction seasons, ending in 2030.

Trumbull Corporation of Pittsburgh, PA, is the contractor on this $259 million project. Approximately $170 million of the funding comes from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).

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