PennDOT Marks Completion of Route 926 (Street Road) Bridge over Brandywine Creek in Chester County

PennDOT Marks Completion of Route 926 (Street Road) Bridge over Brandywine
Creek in Chester County

8/25/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) joined elected
officials today to celebrate the opening of the newly built bridge carrying

Route 926 (Street Road) over the Brandywine Creek in Birmingham and
Pocopson
townships, Chester County. The bridge will officially open to traffic later

today.

"The completion of this new bridge will help boost local economies and
bring
enormous benefits to thousands of motorists, cyclists and pedestrians on
both
sides of Brandywine Creek by providing safer and more reliable travel,"
PennDOT
Assistant District Executive for Construction George Dunheimer said.

PennDOT improved Route 926 (Street Road) by replacing the 79-year-old
bridge
with a new three-span structure built at a higher elevation; rebuilt and
raised
1,700 feet of the roadway approaches to make them less prone to flooding;
replaced the nearby culvert over Radley Run with an 84-foot twin arch
concrete
culvert; and realigned 800 feet of Creek Road at its northern intersection
with
Route 926 (Street Road).

The new, aesthetically designed bridge resembles the current structure and
has
stone form liners covering the piers, and includes an open, higher railing.


The previous four-span Route 926 (Street Road) bridge was built in 1937 and

rehabilitated in 1974. The steel I-beam structure was 190 feet long and 26
feet
wide. Before it closed for construction, the bridge was posted with a
weight
restriction of 26 tons and 33 tons for combination loads and carried
approximately 13,200 vehicles a day.

As part of this project, PennDOT's contractor activated a new traffic
signal in
February that included a Flashing Yellow Arrow signal for left turns from
Route
52 (Lenape Road) to Pocopson Road/West Chester Road, in addition to the
standard red, yellow and green lights. This Flashing Yellow Arrow signal
was
the first to operate in the Philadelphia region.

The new traffic signal has enhanced traffic flow on Route 52 (Lenape Road),

which was part of the project detour and carried heavier traffic volumes
during
the Route 926 (Street Road) closure.

More information on the Flashing Yellow Arrow signals and other traffic
signal
initiatives is available at www.penndot.gov in the Traffic Signals,
Management
section of "Travel in PA".

Clearwater Construction Inc., of Mercer, Pa., was the general contractor on
the
$8,614,000 project financed with 100 percent state funds.

For more information on projects occurring or being bid this year, those
made
possible by or accelerated by the state's transportation funding plan (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.

For more PennDOT information, visit www.penndot.gov. Follow local PennDOT
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