Interstate 84

The unique sounds of bagpipes are hard to miss this time of year with St. Patrick’s Day celebrations happening around the region. But the Greater Scranton Black Diamonds pipe band had to cancel appearances last year after their bus crashed traveling home from a parade in the Poconos. This year, they’re back on the streets.

PennDOT plans a $126 million upgrade of the road surfaces, ramps and bridges around where interstates 84/380 and 81 meet over the next five years.

The home of "Data Center Alley" in Virginia is vastly different from Lackawanna County. That's what officials from Lackawanna County found when they took a trip to Loudoun County, Virginia.

When PennDOT was researching cost effective ways to replace the two bridges that carry Interstates 84 and 380, they discovered an old, out-of-use railroad bridge beneath the highway. By this spring or early summer that E&WV bridge will be repurposed again into a small section of an over 3-mile hiking trail maintained by Lackawanna County.