PennDOT to Rehabilitate Oreland Mill Road Bridge in Springfield

PennDOT to Rehabilitate Oreland Mill Road Bridge in Springfield

2/23/2016-KING OF PRUSSIA

Construction is scheduled to begin Monday, March 7, to rehabilitate the
township-owned Oreland Mill Road bridge over Sunnybrook Creek in
Springfield
Township, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) today
announced.

Oreland Mill Road will be closed and detoured between Plymouth Avenue and
Meadow Lane from Monday, March 7 through June 2016 while crews replace the
deteriorated bridge deck and beams. During construction, Oreland Mill Road
through traffic will be detoured over Lorraine Avenue and Route 73 (Church
Road).

The single-span, prestressed adjacent box beam bridge was built in 1959. It
is
28 feet long and 21 feet wide. It carries 421 vehicles a day. The bridge is

posted with a 18-ton weight limit.

The improvement of the Oreland Mill Road bridge is part of a $2.4 million
project to rehabilitate five township-owned, structurally deficient bridges
in
Montgomery County. This local bridge improvement project was enabled
through
Act 89 legislation, Pennsylvania's transportation plan.

In addition to Oreland Mill Road, PennDOT's contractor will replace the
superstructures (bridge decks and beams) on the Trewigtown Road bridge over

Neshaminy Creek in Hatfield Township; Keeble Road bridge over Abrams Creek
in
Upper Merion Township; and Remington Road bridge over west branch of Indian

Creek in Lower Merion Township. Construction on the Violet Lane bridge over
the
east branch of Indian Creek in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County,
began
Monday, February 22.

J.D. Eckman, Inc., of Atglen, Chester County, is the general contractor on
the
$2,684,206 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
www.facebook.com/pennsylvaniadepartmentoftransportation and Instagram at
www.instagram.com/pennsylvaniadot.

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