PennDOT Starts Construction to Rehabilitate U.S. 202 Bridges over Amtrak in Chester County

PennDOT Starts Construction to Rehabilitate U.S. 202 Bridges over Amtrak in
Chester County

3/7/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today
that
preliminary construction begins this week on a $26.4 million contract to
complete the final phase of the U.S. 202 Section 300 improvement project,
which
includes the rehabilitation of two U.S. 202 bridges over Amtrak rail lines
in
East Whiteland and West Whiteland townships, Chester County.

Crews will repair the six-span twin structures by upgrading the support
piers;
replacing the bridge decks and walls; constructing a retaining wall to
stabilize the embankment, rehabilitating existing concrete pavement north
of
the bridges; and installing new Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)
equipment.

In order to maintain two lanes of traffic in each direction on U.S. 202 at
all
times, construction will be completed in five stages to utilize an Express
Lane
traffic shift. A temporary traffic pattern will be implemented to carry one

lane on the bridge under construction and a second lane on the adjacent
bridge,
where concrete barriers will separate the lane from the two travel lanes
heading in the opposite direction.
This week, PennDOT's contractor will begin shoulder work on U.S. 202 to
establish a work zone from just south of Route 401 to just north of Boot
Road.
Other preliminary construction activities over the next two weeks include
equipment mobilization and survey operations.

Beginning Monday, March 20, crews will start rebuilding the northbound and
southbound U.S. 202 shoulders and build crossover lanes in the median at
the
northern and southern ends of the work zone.

Preparations will then be made to shift one lane over of northbound traffic
to
the southbound side of U.S. 202, where concrete barriers will separate if
from
the two lanes of southbound traffic. The second northbound lane will remain
on
the northbound bridge behind construction barrier as the opposite side is
rehabilitated under Stage 1 of the bridge work. Once half the northbound
bridge
is reconstructed, the northbound lane will be shifted onto the newly
reconstructed half, and the opposite side of the bridge will be
rehabilitated
under Stage 2.

When the rehabilitation of the northbound bridge is completed in mid-2018,
three lanes of traffic — two northbound lanes and a southbound express lane
—
will be shifted to the rebuilt northbound bridge. The southbound bridge
will
then be reconstructed one half-at-a-time under Stages 3-4.

A final construction stage will remove the crossovers and restore the
median to
complete the project in fall 2019.

In addition to rehabilitating the two U.S. 202 bridges, the improvement
project
includes restoring U.S. 202 pavement near the U.S. 30 Interchange;
rehabilitating the bridge carrying Morstein Road over U.S. 202 in East
Goshen
Township, Chester County; and installing new highway signs and Dynamic
Message
System (DMS) structures on U.S. 202 and U.S. 30 in Tredyffrin, East
Whiteland
and West Whiteland townships, Chester County, and U.S. 202 in Upper Merion
Township, Montgomery County.

Allan A Myers, Inc. of Worcester, Montgomery County, is the general
contractor
on the $$26,370,555 project which is financed with 100 percent federal
funds.

For more information, visit www.us202-300.com.

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