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Uniontown, PA – Washington County Planning, along with Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT’s) Engineering District 12, and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), invites the community to participate in the virtual plans display for the Racoon Creek Bridge No. 23 Project in Burgettstown Borough, Washington County.
The purpose of the Virtual Plans Display is to provide information on the Washington County owned Racoon Creek Bridge No. 23 Project covering the improvements, impacts, preliminary design plans, traffic control during construction, and anticipated design and construction schedule.
Information on the Racoon Creek Bridge No. 23 Project, including a short overview and an online comment form, is available on the PennDOT website beginning today, Thursday, January 9 through Thursday, January 23.
Visit the PennDOT District 12 website at http://www.penndot.pa.gov/District12. Click the District 12 Projects Tile, select Racoon Creek Bridge No. 23.
The online plans display introduces the project and elicits public input regarding questions or concerns. The public may also review and comment on the project’s potential effects on Cultural Resources, according to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 36 CFR Part 800 regulations implementing Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
Project documents will be made available in alternative languages or formats if requested. If you cannot access the information online, require translation/interpretation services, or have special needs necessitating individual attention, contact Project Manager Brian Burkus at 724-415-3767 or by email at bburkus@pa.gov.
Pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, PennDOT does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, age, or disability. If you feel you have been denied the benefits of or participation in a PennDOT program or activity, contact the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Equal Opportunity, DBE/Title VI Division at 717-787-5891 or 800-468-4201.
Motorists can check conditions on major roadways by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information, and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras. 511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1 or following regional X alerts.
Subscribe to PennDOT news and traffic alerts in Fayette, Greene, Washington, and Westmoreland counties at www.penndot.pa.gov/District12.
Information about infrastructure in District 12, including completed work and significant projects, is available at www.penndot.pa.gov/D12Results. Find PennDOT’s planned and active construction projects at www.projects.penndot.gov.
Find PennDOT news on X, Facebook, and Instagram.
Media Contact: Andrew Stacy, anstacy@pa.gov or 724-415-3710
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Snow and cold weather in Europe stranded thousands of air travelers from around the world.
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
After seven days of travel chaos in Western Europe, a winter storm is expected to keep dozens more planes on the ground this weekend. The delays could strand thousands more passengers from around the world. The worst hit airport is the one in Amsterdam, where reporter Indy Scholtens spoke to travelers.
INDY SCHOLTENS, BYLINE: Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport is still playing catch up after some 300,000 passengers were stranded this week, when snow and freezing weather canceled over 3,000 flights, according to Flightradar. For days now, hundreds have been standing in line, trying to get on a rebooked flight, hoping for a pause in the bad weather. Paul Bryant and his wife left Luxembourg on Tuesday to travel to Seattle.
PAUL BRYANT: The first flight that get canceled was a flight from Findel, which is Luxembourg, to Schiphol. That was the first flight that get canceled. So we took a train. Then we hit the Netherlands’ electronic outage on Tuesday. So we had a 4.5 hour train ride, ended up being about 10.5 hours going all over the place.
SCHOLTENS: The cold weather and travel chaos has been hitting much of Western Europe this week. In France and parts of the U.K., tens of thousands of homes lost power. Germany halted train services, and major airports in London, Hamburg and Paris canceled dozens of flights on Friday. Here in Amsterdam, airport and airline officials have struggled to deal with the power outage and a shortage in de-icing product required to spray on plane’s wings so they can fly safely. The airport CEO, Pieter van Oord says it’s an exceptional situation.
PIETER VAN OORD: (Through interpreter) We haven’t experienced anything like this at Schiphol for 10 years because we’ve never had such a long period of snow. The biggest obstacle is that the airlines have to go back to their old schedules, and that takes days.
SCHOLTENS: Meanwhile, the bad weather is making it hard to even get to the airport, with travel by train and car made difficult as well. Some of those who got stuck, however, are making the best of it. Madeline Smith is a 28-year-old from Kansas City who came back to the airport to take her chances on a new flight home.
MADELINE SMITH: And I knew I could be here for days, so I finally said, let me just get a hotel.
SCHOLTENS: She spent some time exploring Amsterdam instead of waiting.
SMITH: I mean, there’s thousands of people, and why not enjoy a city while we’re here and make the best of the situation. So…
SCHOLTENS: And that situation isn’t expected to improve across much of Western Europe until Monday at the earliest.
For NPR News, I’m Indy Scholtens in Amsterdam.
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