PennDOT to Rehabilitate Moyer Road Bridge in Hilltown Township, Bucks County

PennDOT to Rehabilitate Moyer Road Bridge in Hilltown Township, Bucks
County

4/4/2016-KING OF PRUSSIA

Construction is scheduled to begin Monday, April 18, to rehabilitate the
township-owned Moyer Road bridge over Pleasant Spring Creek in Hilltown
Township, Bucks County, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
(PennDOT)
today announced.

The improvement of the Moyer 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.

Moyer Road will be closed and detoured between South Perkasie Road and
Route
113 (Souderton Road) from Monday, April 18 through July 2016 while crews
replace the deteriorated bridge deck and beams.

During construction, Moyer Roand through traffic will be detoured over
South
Perkasie Road, Callowhill Road and Route 113 (West Main Street). Local
access
will be maintained up to the construction zone. Motorists are advised to
allow
extra time when traveling through the area.

The single-span, prestressed adjacent box beam bridge was built in 1975. It
is
30 feet long and 33 feet wide. It carries 200 vehicles a day. The bridge is

posted with an 16-ton weight limit.

In addition to Moyer Road, PennDOT's contractor will replace the
superstructures (bridge decks and beams) on the 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.
Construction on
the township-owned Willow Road bridge over Ironworks Creek in Northampton
Township, began on March 28.

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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