Lane Restrictions Scheduled on U.S. 322 (Conchester Highway) in Delaware County for Barrier Placement

Lane Restrictions Scheduled on U.S. 322 (Conchester Highway) in Delaware
County for Barrier Placement

10/17/2016-KING OF PRUSSIA

Lane restrictions are scheduled on U.S. 322 between Station Road and Spring

Valley Road in Concord Township, Delaware County, on Thursday, October 28,
and
Friday, October 29, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, for barrier placement, the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today.
Traffic
will be controlled by flagging.

Motorists are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the area.
The
work schedule is dependent upon the weather.

The work is part of a $7.3 million roadway, maintenance and environmental
mitigation enhancement project in advance of two projects to widen six
miles of
U.S. 322 from two lanes to four lanes, and for improving the existing
mile-long, four-lane section of the highway in Bethel, Concord and Upper
Chichester townships, Delaware County.

Under this environmental mitigation enhancement project, PennDOT will build
a
pad site for the future maintenance facility to be located on Station Road
North near the intersection with U.S. 322 in Concord Township. This
facility
will replace the existing PennDOT maintenance facility on Route 261 (Foulk
Road) at the U.S. 322 Interchange in Bethel Township, which will be removed
for
the widening of U.S. 322.

The contractor will realign Station Road North to improve access to the new

maintenance site and increase the storage volume for an adjacent storm
water
basin. Additional roadway improvements to be made under this project
include
the construction of a concrete arch structure and adjacent retaining walls
over
an unnamed tributary to Webb Creek; guide rail upgrades; new signing and
pavement markings; and traffic signal adjustments at U.S. 322's
intersection
with Station Road North and Fellowship Drive.

In addition to construction, PennDOT's contractor will create 2.33 acres of
new
wetlands to expand an existing wetland site in Thornbury Township, Delaware

County, to compensate for unavoidable impacts to existing wetlands along
the
U.S. 322 corridor.

Construction is expected to finish in October 2018.

Road-Con, Inc., of West Chester, Chester County, is the general contractor
on
the $7,343,510 project which is financed with 80 percent federal and 20
percent
state funds.

Construction to rebuild and widen U.S. 322 from two lanes to four lanes
between
U.S. 1 and Featherbed Lane/Mattson Road is expected to start in 2017. Work
to
widen the eastern half of U.S. 322 from Featherbed Lane/Mattson Road to
just
east of the Route 452 (Market Street) Interchange is expected to start in
2019.

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