Lane Closure Scheduled Next Week on Route 23 for Barrier Installation in Valley Forge Area

Lane Closure Scheduled Next Week on Route 23 for Barrier Installation in
Valley Forge Area

1/5/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

Route 23 (Valley Forge Road) will be reduced to a single lane between Moore

Road and Gulph Road in Upper Merion and West Norriton townships, Montgomery

County, on Thursday, January 12, from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM, for barrier
installation, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) said
today. Traffic will be controlled by flagging.

Motorists are advised to allow additional time for travel on Route 23
(Valley
Forge Road) during this operation because slowdowns will occur. The
contractor's work schedule is dependent on the weather.

The operation is part of PennDOT's $97.4 million project to build new,
wider
structures to improve travel on U.S. 422 at its crossings over the
Schuylkill
River, Norfolk Southern Railroad, South Trooper Road and the Schuylkill
River
Trail. The project also includes improving U.S. 422 between the Route 23
(Valley Forge Road) and Route 363 (Trooper Road) interchanges; upgrading
Route
23 (Valley Forge Road) at its interchange with U.S. 422; and improving
ramps at
the Route 363 (Trooper Road), Route 23 (Valley Forge Road) and First Avenue

interchanges.

PennDOT began construction on this transportation improvement project in
February 2016 and the project is scheduled to finish in May 2020. Without
the
passage of Act 89, Pennsylvania's transportation plan, construction on this

project would not have begun before 2018.

J.D. Eckman, Inc. of Atglen, Chester County, is the general contractor on
the
$97,380,711 contract, which is financed with 80 percent federal and 20
percent
state funds.

For additional information on U.S. 422 improvement projects, visit
www.422improvements.com.

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