Utility Relocation Scheduled on Meyers Road and Route 73 (Skippack Pike)

Utility Relocation Scheduled on Meyers Road and Route 73 (Skippack Pike)

9/2/2016-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) today announced
that
lane restrictions are scheduled next week on Meyers Road and Route 73
(Skippack
Pike) in Montgomery County, for utility relocation and excavation.

Weather permitting, the work schedule is:

• On Tuesday, September 6, through September 9, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM,
lane
restrictions are scheduled on Meyers Road between Seitz Road and Mill Road
in
Perkiomen Township; and
• On Tuesday, September 6, through September 9, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM,
lane
restrictions are scheduled on Route 73 (Skippack Pike) between Squirrel
Hill
Road and Perkiomen Creek Road in Skippack Township.

This preliminary work is part of PennDOT's $11 million project to improve
travel and safety at the intersections of Plank Road/Route 29 (Gravel
Pike)/Otts Road and Meyers Road/Seitz Road/Township Line Road in Skippack,
Perkiomen and Limerick townships, Montgomery County.

The improvements include widening the intersection of Route 73 (Skippack
Pike)
and Plank Road to include left turn lanes on both roads; relocating Otts
Road
to align with Plank Road at Route 29 (Gravel Pike) to create a four-leg
intersection; adding left turn lanes on Route 29 (Gravel Pike) at Plank
Road/Otts Road; adding left turn lanes on Plank Road and Otts Road at Route
29
(Gravel Pike); realigning Meyers Road to intersect with Township Line Road;

realigning Seitz Road to form a T-intersection with Meyers Road; installing
new
traffic signals along the project corridor; and improving the roadway
alignment
in three locations.

During construction, detours will be in place at times for closures of
Plank
Road, Otts Road and Seitz Road. One directional closure will occur on Route
29
(Gravel Pike). The project's traffic control plan was developed in concert
with
the Route 73 (Skippack Pike) bridge project because Plank Road and Route 29

(Gravel Pike) are part of the Route 73 (Skippack Pike) bridge detour. Route
73
(Skippack Pike) bridge construction began on April 25, 2016, and will
finish in
late December 2016.

H & K Group, Inc., of Skippack, Montgomery County, is the general
contractor on
the $11,292,416 contract that financed with 80 percent federal and 20
percent
state funds. The project is expected to finish by spring of 2019.

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