Henry Avenue Travel Restrictions Begin Next Week for Bridge Deck Repairs in Philadelphia

Henry Avenue Travel Restrictions Begin Next Week for Bridge Deck Repairs in
Philadelphia

10/31/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

Eastbound Henry Avenue motorists will encounter a right lane closure on the

bridge over Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia beginning Monday, November 6,
for
bridge deck repairs, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
(PennDOT)
announced today. The lane closure will be in place through early December.

Motorists are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the area
because slowdowns will occur.

The 19-span reinforced concrete open spandrel deck arch bridge was built in

1931. The structure is 688 feet long and 88 feet wide, and carries an
average
of 26,789 vehicles a day.

The work is being performed under PennDOT's $11,766,000 project to
rehabilitate
five structurally deficient bridges in Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and
Philadelphia counties, and replace six structurally deficient culverts in
Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties.

Structures completed under this project include:

• Oxford Valley Road over U.S. 1 in Falls, Lower Makefield and Middletown
townships, Bucks County;
• Route 663 (Layfield Road) bridge over Green Lane Reservoir Creek in Upper

Hanover Township, Montgomery County;
• Edenton Road bridge over Rattlesnake Run in Upper Oxford Township,
Chester
County;
• Torresdale Avenue bridge over Academy Road in Philadelphia; and
• The culvert carrying Route 82 (Doe Run Road) over a branch of Sucker Run
in
East Fallowfield Township, Chester County.

The other culvert replacements on this project include:

• 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, including

color-coded winter conditions on 2,900 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 850
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
information on Twitter at www.twitter.com/511PAPhilly, and follow the
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