I-95 Nighttime Lanes Closures Next Week for Overhead Bridge Construction in the City of Chester, Delaware County

I-95 Nighttime Lanes Closures Next Week for Overhead Bridge Construction in
the City of Chester, Delaware County

7/12/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

Nighttime lane closures are scheduled on northbound and southbound
Interstate
95 between the I-476 (Exit 7) and Route 352/Route 320 (Exit 6) interchanges
in
the City of Chester, Delaware County, on Monday, July 17, through Friday,
July
21, from 10:00 PM to 5:00 AM, for work related to a $16.6 million project
to
rehabilitate eight bridges over Interstate 95 and CSX Railroad in the city,
the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today.

Under this improvement project, PennDOT's contractor is rehabilitating the
multi-span, steel girder bridges on Potter Street, Madison Street, Upland
Street, Melrose Avenue, Chestnut Street, Edgmont Avenue, and the Crosby
Street
and Walnut Street pedestrian structures, and improving the I-95 south exit
ramp
at Chestnut Street.

PennDOT owns the Edgmont Avenue and Madison Street bridges, and the City of

Chester owns the remaining six structures.

In addition to the bridge and ramp improvements, crews are repairing
Chestnut
Street and Morton Avenue from 12th Street to 4th Street; reconstructing
curbs
and sidewalks; milling and resurfacing the streets; installing a new
traffic
signal at Chestnut Street and Morton Avenue; upgrading the traffic signal
at
Morton Avenue and 7th Street; and reconstructing Morton Avenue from 7th
Street
to 4th Street to lower the road under the Amtrak overpass to increase
vertical
clearance from 12 feet 9 inches to 13 feet 9 inches.

South State, Inc. of Bridgeton, N.J. is the general contractor on the
$16,668,238 project which is financed with 100 percent state funds. The
entire
project is scheduled to be completed in November 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.

A list of weekly road restrictions and PennDOT maintenance operations in
the
five-county Philadelphia region is available by visiting the District 6
Traffic
Bulletin at www.penndot.gov/District6.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by
visiting
www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides
traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and
access
to more than 825 traffic cameras.

511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and
Android
devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional Twitter alerts
accessible
on the 511PA website.

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