Wolf Administration Announces Work to Begin to Replace State Road Bridge over Little Elk Creek in Chester County

Wolf Administration Announces Work to Begin to Replace State Road Bridge
over Little Elk Creek in Chester County

10/6/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Wolf Administration announced today that construction is scheduled to
begin
next week to replace the structurally-deficient bridge carrying State Road
over
Little Elk Creek in Elk Township, Chester County.

"This is a win-win situation," Governor Tom Wolf said. "We remove another
structure from the backlog of structurally-deficient bridges in the state,
while southern Chester County gains a new bridge that will serve its
residents
well into the future."

Beginning Monday, October 9, through mid-April, the State Road bridge over
Little Elk Creek will be closed and detoured between Route 472 (Lewisville
Road) and Chrome Road.

During the seven-month closure, State Road motorists will be detoured over
Chrome Road, Media Road and Route 472 (Lewisville Road). Local access will
be
maintained up to the construction zone.

Built in 1937, the current two-span, rolled steel I-beam bridge with a
timber
deck carries an average of 946 vehicles a day.

PennDOT's contractor will replace it with a single span, pre-stressed,
concrete
spread box beam bridge and perform other miscellaneous construction,
including
streambank mitigation. The new structure will be 30 feet wide and 67 feet
long,
and include two-foot shoulders.

Lobar Site Development Corporation, of Dillsburg Borough, York County, is
the
general contractor on this $1,330,201 bridge replacement project that is
financed with 80 percent federal and 20 percent state funds.

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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