PennDOT Announces Major Construction Completed on Torresdale Avenue Bridge Over Academy Road in Philadelphia

PennDOT Announces Major Construction Completed on Torresdale Avenue Bridge
Over Academy Road in Philadelphia

4/18/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

Major construction has been completed on the Torresdale Avenue bridge over
Academy Road in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

(PennDOT) announced today. Following its rehabilitation, the bridge is no
longer categorized as structurally deficient.

PennDOT's contractor worked since February to rehabilitate the bridge by
repairing the substructure. Over the next month, crews will perform
additional
work that will not require lane restrictions.

The one-span, prestressed concrete bridge was built in 1964. It is 93 feet
long
and 54 feet wide, and carries an average of 18,902 vehicles a day.

The bridge carrying Torresdale Avenue over Academy Road is the second of
four
bridges to be completed under PennDOT's $11,766,000 project to rehabilitate

four structurally deficient bridges in Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and
Philadelphia counties, and replace six structurally deficient culverts in
Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties.

On March 24, the Edenton Road bridge over Rattlesnake Run in Upper Oxford
Township, Chester County, was the first bridge to be completed under this
project. PennDOT is also rehabilitating the Route 663 (Layfield Road)
bridge
over the Perkiomen Creek in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County, and
the
Oxford Valley Road bridge over U.S. 1 in Falls and Lower Makefield
townships,
Bucks County.

The contractor also will replace deteriorated culverts at the following
locations: State Road bridge over a branch of Cooks Creek in Springfield
Township, Bucks County; Rocky Ridge Road over a branch of Tohickon Creek,
Richland Township, Bucks County; White Horse Road over a branch of
Pickering
Creek in Schuylkill Township, Chester County; Route 282 (Creek Road) over a

branch of Brandywine Creek in East Brandywine Township, Chester County;
Route
82 (Doe Run Road) in East Fallowfield Township, Chester County; and MacDade

Boulevard over the Muckinipattis Creek in Glenolden Borough, Delaware
County.

Loftus Construction, Inc. of Cinnaminson, N.J., is the general contractor
on
this project that is financed with 100 percent state funds through Act 89,
Pennsylvania's transportation plan.

All work on the project is expected to be completed in August 2018.

For more information on projects occurring or being bid this year, those
made
possible by or accelerated by Act 89, or those on the department's Four and

Twelve Year Plans, visit www.projects.penndot.gov.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by
visiting
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traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and
access
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devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional Twitter alerts
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on the 511PA website.

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