Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge to Close for Rehabilitation in the City of Chester, Delaware County

Walnut Street Pedestrian Bridge to Close for Rehabilitation in the City of
Chester, Delaware County

11/22/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

The pedestrian bridge carrying Walnut Street over Interstate 95 is
scheduled to
close beginning Monday, December 4, as part of a project to rehabilitate
eight
bridges over I-95 and CSX Railroad in the City of Chester, Delaware County,
the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today. The
pedestrian bridge is scheduled to reopen in early April 2018.

During the four-month closure, pedestrians will be directed use the
Chestnut
Street bridge to cross I-95.

Under this improvement project, PennDOT is rehabilitating the multi-span,
steel
girder bridges on Potter Street, Madison Street, Upland Street, Melrose
Avenue,
Chestnut Street, Edgmont Avenue, and the Crosby Street and Walnut Street
pedestrian structures. The contractor is also improving the I-95 south exit

ramp at Chestnut Street.

PennDOT owns the Edgmont Avenue and Madison Street bridges, and the City of

Chester owns the remaining six structures.

In addition to the bridge and ramp improvements, PennDOT's contractor is
repairing Chestnut Street and Morton Avenue from 12th Street to 4th Street;

reconstructing curbs and sidewalks; milling and resurfacing the streets;
installing a new traffic signal at Chestnut Street and Morton Avenue;
upgrading
the traffic signal at Morton Avenue and 7th Street; and reconstructing
Morton
Avenue from 7th Street to 4th Street to lower the road under the Amtrak
overpass to increase vertical clearance.

South State, Inc. of Bridgeton, N.J. is the general contractor on the $16.6

million project which is financed with 100 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, 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
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