Traffic Pattern Switch Scheduled on Passyunk Avenue in Philadelphia

Traffic Pattern Switch Scheduled on Passyunk Avenue in Philadelphia

6/10/2016-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation today announced crews will
work
Tuesday, June 14, beginning at 7:00 PM to switch two westbound and one
eastbound travel lanes onto the west side of the Honorable Robert C.
Donatucci
Memorial Bridge on Passyunk Avenue. The new long-term traffic pattern will
be
in place until June 2017.

Over the next year, crews will work to repair and replace the bridge deck
on
the east side of the structure and repair the drawbridge.

The work is part of PennDOT's two-year, $33.5 million project to
rehabilitate
and improve the drawbridge over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.

The 33-year-old bridge is undergoing construction to enhance the
drawbridge's
mechanical operation and structural condition. PennDOT's contractor is
upgrading the drawbridge by rehabilitating the motors, brakes, locks and
gears,
plus the electrical power, controls, traffic control systems and gates.

Construction crews also will repair and paint structural steel, replace
deteriorated concrete, overlay the bridge deck with latex concrete, replace

expansion joints, reset rocker bearings, repair pedestrian railings, and
clean
and repair the drainage systems.

Currently, the bridge carries three westbound and three eastbound travel
lanes,
and two sidewalks. At the end of construction, the bridge will carry two
westbound and two eastbound travel lanes, two sidewalks, and two
13-foot-wide
shoulders. The reduction in travel lanes resulted from a joint study with
the
City of Philadelphia, which determined that two travel lanes in each
direction
on the bridge would be more consistent with the Passyunk Avenue corridor.

The bridge was built in 1983. The steel-girder bridge has 18-spans,
including
the one-span drawbridge section. The bridge is 2,240 feet long and 92 feet
wide. It carries an average of 20,800 vehicles a day.

Buckley and Company Inc., of Philadelphia, is the general contractor on the

$33,527,470 project. Construction is expected to finish in late 2018. The
project is financed with 80 percent federal and 20 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.

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