PennDOT to Rehabilitate Route 23 Bridge over French Creek in Chester County

PennDOT to Rehabilitate Route 23 Bridge over French Creek in Chester County

7/26/2016-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will start construction
Friday,
August 5, on a $450,000 project to rehabilitate the structurally deficient
bridge carrying Route 23 (Schuylkill Road) over French Creek in
Phoenixville
Borough and East Pikeland and Skippack townships, Chester County. The
project
is scheduled to finish Sunday, August 14.

Crews will work to rehabilitate the Route 23 (Schuylkill Road) bridge by
replacing a portion of the bridge deck and deteriorated beams.

During construction, Route 23 (Schuylkill Road) will be closed and detoured

between Valley Forge Road and Township Line Road. The posted detour will
use
Township Line Road and Valley Forge Road. Southbound Township Line
motorists
wanting to access eastbound Route 23 (Schuylkill Road) will be detoured
over
Mowere Road. Local access will be maintained up to the construction zone.

The Route 23 (Schuylkill Road) bridge was built in 1940. The two-span steel

I-beam bridge is 125 feet long, 40 feet wide and carries an average of
15,450
vehicles a day. The bridge is posted with a 22-ton weight limit. When
construction is completed the bridge will no longer be classified as
structurally deficient.

The Route 23 (Schuylkill Road) bridge is one of nine bridges in Bucks,
Chester,
Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties that PennDOT is repairing
under
a $7,555,555 project financed by Pennsylvania's transportation funding
plan,
Act 89.

PennDOT has completed the rehabilitations of the U.S. 13 (Bristol Pike)
bridge
over Martins Creek in Falls Township, Bucks County; Chinquapin Road bridge
over
Iron Works Creek in Northampton Township, Bucks County; and Dark Hollow
Road
bridge over Tohickon Creek in Tinicum Township, Bucks County.

The Route 32 (South Main Street) bridge over Aquetong Creek in New Hope
Borough, Bucks County, and the Route 73 (Skippack Pike) bridge over
Perkiomen
Creek in Perkiomen and Skippack townships, and Schwenksville Borough,
Montgomery County, are currently under construction and scheduled to be
completed by the end of 2016.

The three remaining bridges that will be repaired under this contract are:

• Bryn Mawr Avenue bridge over Ithan Creek in Radnor Township, Delaware
County;
• New Second Street bridge over Tacony Creek in Cheltenham Township,
Montgomery
County; and
• Route 611 (Broad Street) bridge over U.S. 1 (Roosevelt Extension) in
Philadelphia.

The entire project is expected to be completed by fall 2017.

Loftus Construction, Inc. of Cinnaminson, N.J., is the general contractor
on
the project, which is financed with 100 percent state funds.

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