Route 320 (Montgomery Avenue) to Close Overnights for Bridge Beam Replacement in Lower Merion Township

Route 320 (Montgomery Avenue) to Close Overnights for Bridge Beam
Replacement in Lower Merion Township

11/15/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

Route 320 (Montgomery Avenue) will be closed and detoured between Old Gulph

Road and Spring Mill Road in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, on
Sunday, November 19, through Tuesday, November 21, from 8:00 PM to 5:00 AM
the
following morning, for beam replacement on the overpass carrying northbound

Interstate 476 over Route 320 (Montgomery Avenue), the Pennsylvania
Department
of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today.

During construction, Route 320 (Montgomery Avenue) motorists will be
directed
to use Old Gulph Road and Spring Mill Road. Local access will be maintained
up
to the construction zone.

In addition, motorists will encounter lane closures on northbound I-476
between
the U.S 30 (Lancaster Avenue) and Interstate 76 interchanges in Radnor
Township, Delaware County, and Lower Merion Township and West Conshohocken
Borough, Montgomery County, on Sunday, November 19, through Tuesday,
November
21, from 8:00 PM to 5:00 AM the following morning, for beam replacement.

Motorists are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the
construction areas because slowdowns will occur. The contractor's schedule
is
dependent on the weather.

The underside of the northbound I-476 bridge over Route 320 (Montgomery
Avenue)
was struck by a large truck on July 22, which resulted in damage to the
concrete fascia beam.

As part of the work, crews will remove and replace the damaged pre-stressed

concrete fascia beam and adjacent portion of deck and barrier; install new
bearing pads; replace deck joints at the abutments; and remove and
reinstall
barrier-mounted sound wall. Construction on the bridge is scheduled to be
completed in late November.

Built in 1974, the one-span pre-stressed concrete-I beam bridge is 110 feet

long and 56 feet wide. The structure carries about 61,000 vehicles a day.

The work on the bridge carrying northbound I-476 over Route 320 (Montgomery

Avenue) is part of PennDOT's $6.8 million project to rehabilitate or
replace
five bridges in Bucks and Montgomery counties, three culverts in Bucks
County,
and to stabilize a stream embankment at a bridge in Bucks County.

Work on the entire project is scheduled to be completed in late 2018.

Loftus Construction, Inc. of Cinnaminson, N.J., is the general contractor
on
the project, which 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.

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