PennDOT Reopens Route 313 (Dublin Pike) Bridge over Perkiomen Creek in Bedminster Township, Bucks County

PennDOT Reopens Route 313 (Dublin Pike) Bridge over Perkiomen Creek in
Bedminster Township, Bucks County

6/1/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) this afternoon
reopened
the bridge carrying Route 313 (Dublin Pike) over Perkiomen Creek in
Bedminster
Township, Bucks County.

PennDOT began construction in April to replace the bridge deck, beams and
parapets. The one-span, concrete T-beam bridge was built in 1930. It is 45
feet
long and 33 feet wide, and carries about 14,182 vehicles a day. Following
its
rehabilitation, the bridge is no longer categorized as structurally
deficient.

This bridge rehabilitation project was accelerated to maximize a detour
currently in effect for the replacement of the culvert carrying Route 313
(Dublin Pike) over Morris Run between Blue School Road and Route 113
(Bedminster Road) in Hilltown Township. That project is also scheduled to
finish in June.

The replacement of both structures on Route 313 (Dublin Pike) is part of
PennDOT's $6.8 million project to rehabilitate five structurally-deficient
bridges in Bucks and Montgomery counties, three structurally-deficient
culverts
in Bucks County, and to stabilize a stream embankment at a bridge in Bucks
County.

Work on the entire project is scheduled to be completed in late 2018.

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

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.

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