CRANBERRY TWP — The state Department of Transportation’s Franklin Road Improvement Project is expected to begin work this fall, according to township engineering and environmental services director Mike Malak.

“It has been sort of a moving target — it was going to be last fall,” Malak said. “But that’s the latest, this fall.”

Malak told the township supervisors Thursday that PennDOT will put the project out to bid in September. He said that construction should be expected not long after that.

This PennDOT project aims to improve a section of Franklin Road in the township spanning from Route 228 to Peters Road.