NORTHUMBERLAND — While expressing disappointment that truck traffic won’t disappear from Route 147 any time soon, residents along the highway known in the borough as Duke Street say they’re used to the snarl and roar of heavy trucks passing just feet from their front doors.

In a surprise announcement Thursday, the state Department of Transportation put the Central Susquehanna Valley Thruway project in hibernation, citing a lack of funds to continue the $418 million, 12-mile road.

The project would have diverted truck traffic from Route 147, in addition to alleviating congestion on Routes 11-15 in eastern Snyder County.

“It’s ironic, after spending all that money,” said Dan Lysak, as he tied a tarp over a load on his pickup truck at the rear of his 465 Queen St. property, where it borders on Duke Street.

Lysak said he’s lived there for 14 years, and the traffic doesn’t faze him any more.

“I sleep right through it,” Lysak said.

“I’m really not surprised. They’ve been talking about it (the thruway project) for years and it just doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen.”

About $28 million has already been spent on rights-of-way and property acquisitions, design and engineering, leaving about $390 million unfunded.

Gretchen Brosius, Northumberland’s mayor, lives at 571 Duke St.

“I was born and raised in this house,” she said. “We like living here.”

Brosius and her husband moved from King Street to Duke Street a few years ago.

“Out in the back, it’s like living in the country, except for the sound of the trucks,” she said. They see birds, squirrels and even groundhogs in the back yard, which borders the Norfolk Southern railroad tracks.

“This is a real step back for the town,” she said. “It’s very difficult now for traffic to get through town.”

Patty, who lives on the 500 block of Duke Street and didn’t give her last name, said she was disappointed with the news.

“They’ve done all that work to 147 up above town, but it all comes down through here,” she said. “The congestion gets to you after a while, and as the trees grow, the trucks break limbs off.”