PennDOT to Rehabilitate Willow Road Bridge in Northampton Township

PennDOT to Rehabilitate Willow Road Bridge in Northampton Township

3/14/2016-KING OF PRUSSIA

Construction is scheduled to begin Monday, March 28 to rehabilitate the
township-owned Willow Road bridge over Ironworks Creek in Northampton
Township,
Bucks County, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) today

announced.

The improvement of the Willow 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, Pennsylvania's transportation plan.

Willow Road will be closed and detoured between Bustleton Pike and
Buttonwood
Road from Monday, March 28 through June 2016 while crews replace the
deteriorated bridge deck and beams. During construction, Willow Roand
through
traffic will be detoured over Route 232 (Second Street Pike), Tanyard Road
and
Bustleton Pike.

The single-span, prestressed adjacent box beam bridge was built in 1962 and

rehabilitated in 1977. It is 28 feet long and 21 feet wide. It carries 412
vehicles a day. The bridge is posted with an 18-ton weight limit.

In addition to Willow Road, PennDOT's contractor will replace the
superstructures (bridge decks and beams) on the 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. Construction on the county-owned Kansas Road bridge over Little
Neshaminy Creek in Warrington Township began on March 7.

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
www.facebook.com/pennsylvaniadepartmentoftransportation and Instagram at
www.instagram.com/pennsylvaniadot.

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