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Construction crews working at the Interstate-83 and Route 581 interchange project.

(Mark Pynes, PennLive.com)

The tone for the summer road construction season was set in November when Gov. Tom Corbett signed the transportation funding bill Act 89 into law.

The legislation added 55 projects to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's District 8.

"There's a good bit of work that has been added as a result of that and this is just the beginning," said PennDOT spokesman Greg Penny.

The work that has started on Interstate 283 as a result of Act 89 money, Penny said, is a precursor to "a lot more work on the beltway over the next couple of years."

Generally, Penny said, 2014 is not the biggest construction season PennDOT has ever had.

Construction saw a big spike in 2009, he said, with the federal stimulus but then construction money began falling off again.

"If it hadn't been for Act 89, it would have continued on a decline. Now you will see it rise for a few years and then level out," Penny said.

Here's a look at some projects motorists can expect to encounter in their travels. For the maps, the roadwork is in green, and bridge work in blue. You can click on a project for more information:

ADAMS COUNTY

Route 15 will be repaved from Hunterstown to the Maryland state line. That project is expected to be completed in the fall.

Route 30 will be repaved from the Franklin County line to east of Route 234. That project should wrap up in mid-July.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

New traffic patterns will emerge this week and next at the Interstate-83 and Route 581 interchange project.

Ongoing projects in Cumberland County include the widening of Interstate 83 at the bottleneck with Route 581. Motorists in coming days will see a big change here when PennDOT adjusts the traffic pattern. The adjustments for motorists, Penny said, will be significant because "the ramp they have been using for 20 or more years is no longer there."

After new signs are installed, motorists will see a change in the traffic pattern at the I-83 and Route 581 interchange.

Also continuing is the bridge replacement on Route 15 over the Norfolk Southern railroad in East Pennsboro Township in the area of West Fairview.

A new project is a roundabout at Sterretts Gap at the Perry County border (we will cover that project under Perry County).

Other projects include repair and resurfacing of the Camp Hill bypass. The $1.8 million project started in April. Completion date is winter 2015 but PennDOT officials said it is not expected to take that long. The project on state Route 1014 and Route 11/15 is 2.7 miles long from the Harvey Taylor Bridge to 32nd Street in Camp Hill.

PennDOT also is installing software for "adaptive signaling" on the Carlisle Pike in East Pennsboro, Hampden and Silver Spring townships.

"It is software that uses the video detectors ... to measure how much traffic is coming through and it will adjust the signal timing based on the volume of traffic that is coming through," Penny said.

DAUPHIN COUNTY

State officials last month announced a $5.6 million I-283 repaving project that has since started. The project goes from the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the Eisenhower Interchange. Work is being done at night. Completion is not expected until May 2015.

Prep work such as pipe installation and shoulder stabilization is already underway on Route 225 ahead of a repair and resurfacing project scheduled to begin in August. That project is for six miles on Route 225 between Route 325 in Middle Paxton Township and Route 147 in Halifax Township.

The Mulberry Street bridge in Harrisburg was closed this spring and is expected to remain close until December. The bridge is classified as structurally deficient. The $16 million rehabilitation project includes improvements to the deck, safety barrier, drainage and lighting and resurfacing.

FRANKLIN COUNTY

State Route 75 will be resurfaced from Coons Road to State Route 274. That project should run from early June to early July.

LANCASTER COUNTY

In Lancaster County, PennDOT continues work on a $16 million project to build a new bridge to carry the Lititz Pike over the Amtrack lines between Lancaster City and Manheim Township.

"Right now we have half of the intersection closed," Penny said.

When the new bridge is opened, potentially in June, Lititz Avenue will be closed for demolition of the old bridge and converting the road to a cul-de-sac.

The project is expected to be done in the fall.

Route 30 at Gap where it intersects with Routes 41 and 772 will be improved. Penny said the intersection will be realigned to alleviate congestion. That project is projected to start in July.

Route 222 north of Lancaster also will be resurfaced. Penny said this is a project that is being funded by Act 89. Eventually, he said, the entire Route 222 corridor will need to be reconstructed.

And, Route 441 is being relocated to create a bypass around Columbia to Route 30.

LEBANON COUNTY

Last year was a big year for Lebanon County with the completion and opening of the second of two bridges on Route 72 in Lebanon over the Norfolk Southern rail lines and the relocation and realignment of Routes 897, 419 and 501, called the Schaefferstown bypass.

This year, with money left over from the bridge project, Penny said, PennDOT will tackle a $1 million project to address sinkholes on Route 422 west of Palmyra and into Londonderry Township.

"They are going to drill what they think is solid rock, build caissons, ... bridging over the area that tends to sink and put the road over it," Penny said.

Adaptive signaling also will be installed along the Route 422 corridor, Penny said, from Palmyra to Cleona.

And PennDOT will apply Tyre-Grip high friction surface treatment on selected roadways "with slippery pavement or where crashes are attributed to sliding."

PERRY COUNTY

The biggest project to come to Perry County in a long time is also a Cumberland County project – a roundabout being constructed at Sterretts Gap at Route 34 and Sunnyside Drive in Middlesex Township.

The $2.1 million roundabout is designed to help move traffic through the intersection more smoothly and to reduce angle-type crashes.

But the project has been met with some resistance.

"Roundabouts are still new and usual around here," Penny said. "Linglestown was the first introduction of it and there was a big dust up in the beginning."

Penny said motorists should get used to them because more will be constructed.

He said there was a temporary, demonstration-type roundabout on Route 322 through Hershey because Milton Hershey School is exploring ways to keep traffic moving in that area.

Another project funded by Act 89 is rehabilitation of the Market Street bridge over Little Juniata Creek in Duncannon.

The $1.3 million project includes relocation of utilities, removing the bridge deck and installing a new concrete deck and removing an abandoned railroad bridge substructure. The bridge is expected to be closed in June after initial work is done.

YORK COUNTY

Act 89 funding was made available to resurface I-83 from Sheep Bridge Road to Route 262 in Newberry and Fairview townships. That project will cost $3.9 million.

PennDOT, Penny said, has an ongoing effort to install more traffic cameras and message boards along I-83. More of those will be installed with a cluster of them around York City.

"It just gives us more eyes on the road and more ways to communicate with drivers," Penny said.

A $12 million interchange improvement project at Exit 10 on I-83 in the Loganville area is wrapping up.

Penny said PennDOT has been working on increasing clearance on bridges over 83.

"We have been able over the last several years to increase the clearance so they are all 16 feet or more," Penny said.

A paving project on Route 30 from Hellam to York is just getting started, Penny said. That project is not expected to be completed until next year.

PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE

There is ongoing construction on the Pennsylvania Turnpike but, said spokesman Carl DeFebo Jr., "One of the things that travelers should keep in mind – we do this a little bit different than PennDOT. For the most part we will have four lanes of traffic available to customers except during off-peak hours."

Turnpike officials said they try to maintain two lanes of traffic in each direction during construction.

Maintenance activities such as filling potholes, line painting and drain cleaning will be done generally during off-peak hours, after 9 a.m. and before 2 p.m., DeFebo said.

All construction projects on the Turnpike can be found at www.paturnpike.com/constructionprojects/mp12to14/.

Here is a glance at a few:

Total reconstruction and widening of two miles in Beaver County.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is beginning a $48 million project in Dauphin County that includes replacing this bridge over the Swatara Creek with a new six-lane bridge.

The replacement of six overhead bridges and widening of the roadway in Allegheny County.

The replacement of three bridges plus widening and reconstruction of the road in Dauphin County.

The Turnpike and Interstate-95 interchange project in Bucks County. This project – which directly connects the Turnpike to I-95 - has multiple phases.

ELSEWHERE

Interstate 78

Ron Young, spokesman for PennDOT's District 5, said there is patching, milling and paving on I-78 in Berks County between exit 35 and the Lehigh County line. Young said motorists will see nighttime lane restrictions from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. That project is scheduled to finish in August.

Interstate 80

Work along Interstate 80 primarily will be paving and patching that will require only short-term lane restrictions.

There are, however, a few larger projects underway, including multiple bridge rehabilitations.

In Columbia County, PennDOT is in the fourth of a five-year $50 million river bridge construction project, according to District 3 spokesman Rick Mason.

Mason said most of the traffic impact is over and the "vast majority of the time" there are two lanes open in each direction.

Another Columbia County project will start this summer to resurface from the Montour/Columbia county line to Bloomsburg.

In Luzerne County four bridges are being replaced through 2017. Some of them are already under construction.

PennDOT spokesman Jim Carroll said that there is a large reconstruction project between exits 90 and 97 that will continue through Nov. 1. There is one lane open in each direction.

Route 322

Marla Fannin, spokeswoman for District 2, noted there is an ongoing bridge preservation project in the Lewistown area.

The project runs from the Route 522 interchange to the Business 22 interchange. Crossovers were constructed and went into effect a few weeks ago.

Staff writer Nick Malawskey created the maps for this story.