Traffic Incident Managment Workshop
On October 26, 2011, Focus 81, PennDOT, NEPA Alliance and the I-81 Multi-State Corridor Coalition held a Traffic Incident Management and Responder Safety Workshop at the Lackawanna County Center for Public Safety in Jessup, PA. The multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional interactive workshop was attended by personnel from PennDOT, the Pennsylvania State Police, Lackawanna County, Luzerne County and several local fire and ambulance companies that respond to traffic incidents along the Interstate 81 corridor in Northeastern Pennsylvania. This no cost workshop, presented by Jack Sullivan, CSP, CFPS from the Emergency Responder Safety Institute, featured an overview of the safety hazards present at roadway incidents and a series of best practices designed to help protect emergency response personnel, save lives, prevent injuries and clear incidents quickly to resume normal traffic flow.

I-81 Receives Federal Funding
Senators Bob Casey and Arlen Specter were in Northeast PA on June 8, 2009 to announce funding for a major resurfacing project on Interstate 81 in Luzerne County. The Senators presented a $12.87 million check to Jeffrey Box and George Roberts, PennDOT District 4-0 Executive for this improvement project.

New Highway Safety Corridor
A new highway safety corridor with doubled traffic fines was announced by officials from PennDOT, Pennsylvania State Police and Focus 81. The designated corridor runs both northbound and southbound from mile markers 173.8 to 161.2, which is between Exit 175 (Pittston/Dupont) and Exit 159 (Nuangola). The area was selected because it is a high-crash, high-speed area. This is the second Highway Safety Corridor within the Focus 81 corridor. The first was established in 2004 to include the area, both northbound and southbound, from mile marker 183 near the River Street Exit 184 to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Airport and Avoca Exits 178A-178B.

Focus 81 testifies before State Transportation Commission (STC)
Jeffrey K. Box, President & CEO of NEPA, testified before State Transportation Commission (STC) on behalf of the Focus 81 Committee on September 3, 2009, seeking support for the Interstate 81 Expansion project. The I-81 Expansion project proposes to increase corridor capacity from Waverly in Lackawanna County to Nanticoke in Luzerne County.

I-81 Traffic Enforcement P
	The Focus 81 coalition, including our elected officials, the PSP and PennDOT worked to facilitate the creation of additional areas for the State Police to safely pull over speeding motorists in the ongoing effort to increase the safety of this targeted section of Interstate 81. A news conference featuring Lt. Colonel Ralph Periandi, Deputy Commissioner of Operations for the Pennsylvania State Police was held on June 22, 2004. More

Kane Truck
	Focus 81 partnered with Kane is Able, Inc. to create a moving billboard depicting the Focus 81 logo, slogan and weblink. This trailer traverses the I-81 corridor being targeted by Focus 81 for improvements. More

Share the Road Event
	Focus 81, SAFE 80, NEPA and our state legislators teamed up to bring the American Trucking Associations “Share the Road” program to Northeast Pennsylvania on November 6, 2003. This national educational awareness demonstration program offers automobile drivers an enlightening perspective about safely traveling our nation’s roadways together with tractor-trailers. More