The Route 228 Balls Bend realignment will feed into the road-widening project Middlesex Crossing developers began this summer at the Route 228-Route 8 intersection.

Drivers may have to briefly wait near the intersection of Route 8 and Route 228 this week, as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has issued a travel alert for the Balls Bend Safety Improvement Project from Jan. 25 and 27.

There will be intermittent traffic stoppages in the area between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., a statement announced, to allow trucks to deliver box culvert sections to the site.

The sections being brought in are large concrete box structures that are typically inserted as part of the construction of bridges, tunnels, streams and underpasses, PennDOT spokeswoman Tina Gibbs said. Moving them into the site will require traffic to temporarily stop.

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