PennDOT Opens All Lanes on Oxford Valley Road Over U.S. 1 in Bucks County

PennDOT Opens All Lanes on Oxford Valley Road Over U.S. 1 in Bucks County

8/17/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) this morning
reopened
all lanes on the bridge carrying Oxford Valley Road over U.S. 1 in Falls,
Lower
Makefield and Middletown townships, Bucks County.

PennDOT's contractor worked since November 2016 to rehabilitate the 167
foot-long bridge by replacing two steel beams; straightening four steel
beams
with the use of high heat; performing full-depth concrete bridge deck
repairs;
placing a new latex concrete overlay on the bridge deck; and repairing
concrete
support abutments. The work also included new expansion dams as well as
upgrades to Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) components. Following
its
rehabilitation, the bridge is no longer categorized as structurally
deficient.

Some ancillary work remains to be completed, and for that reason,
northbound
and southbound U.S. 1 is scheduled to close at the Oxford Valley Road
Interchange in Falls, Lower Makefield and Middletown townships, Bucks
County,
from Sunday, August 20, through Friday, August 25, from 9:00 PM to 6:00 AM,
for
shielding removal, painting and cleanup. During the closure, U.S. 1
motorists
will exit at Oxford Valley Road and then re-enter the highway at the
entrance
ramps at the interchange.

Crews began construction on November 14, 2016, to rehabilitate the Oxford
Valley Road bridge. The structure remained open to traffic while the
contractor
repaired structural damage sustained when the bridge was struck by an
oversized
truck on June 29, 2015.

Built in 1972, the three-span, steel-I beam bridge is 90 feet wide. The
structure carries 31,000 vehicles a day.

The bridge carrying Oxford Valley Road over U.S. 1 is the last 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.

The bridge carrying Route 663 (Layfield Road) bridge over Green Lane
Reservoir
Creek in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County; the Edenton Road bridge

over Rattlesnake Run in Upper Oxford Township, Chester County; and the
Torresdale Avenue bridge over Academy Road in Philadelphia were the other
bridges completed under this project.

On June 30, PennDOT reopened the culvert carrying Route 82 (Doe Run Road)
over
a branch of Sucker Run in East Fallowfield Township, Chester County.

PennDOT's 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; and

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

Work on the entire project is expected to be completed in August 2018.

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.

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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