PennDOT to Rehabilitate Kansas Road Bridge in Warrington Township

PennDOT to Rehabilitate Kansas Road Bridge in Warrington Township

2/23/2016-KING OF PRUSSIA

Construction is scheduled to begin Monday, March 7 to rehabilitate the
county-owned Kansas Road bridge over Little Neshaminy Creek in Warrington
Township, Bucks County, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
(PennDOT)
today announced.

Kansas Road will be closed and detoured between Redstone Drive and
Forsythia
Drive from Monday, March 7 through June 2016 while crews replace the
deteriorated bridge deck and beams. During construction, Kansas Road
through
traffic will be detoured over Route 611 (Easton Road), Titus Avenue and
County
Line Road.

The single-span, prestressed adjacent box beam bridge was built in 1979. It
is
37 feet long and 36 feet wide. It carries 400 vehicles a day. The bridge is

posted with a 27-ton weight limit.

The improvement of the Kansas Road bridge is part of a $2.3 million project
to
rehabilitate five structurally deficient bridges - four township owned and
one
county owned, in Bucks County. This local bridge improvement project was
enabled through Act 89 legislation, Pennsylvania's transportation plan.

In addition to Kansas Road, PennDOT's contractor will replace the
superstructures (bridge decks and beams) on the Willow Road bridge over
Ironworks Creek in Northampton Township; Moyer Road bridge over Pleasant
Creek
in Hilltown Township; Alden Avenue bridge over Rock Run in Falls Township;
and
Springfield Street bridge over SEPTA rail tracks in Springfield Township.

H&K Group, Inc., of Skippack, Montgomery County, is the general contractor
on
the $2,353,598 project. The rehabilitation of the five bridges is expected
to
be completed in late 2016. The project is financed with 100 percent state
funds.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by
visiting
www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides
traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and
access
to more than 770 traffic cameras.

511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and
Android
devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional Twitter alerts
accessible
on the 511PA website.

For more PennDOT information, visit www.penndot.gov. Follow Local PennDOT
Information on Twitter at www.twitter.com/511PAPhilly, and follow the
department on Facebook at
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www.instagram.com/pennsylvaniadot.

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