U.S. 202 South Ramp to U.S. 30 in Chester County Reopens to Two Lanes

U.S. 202 South Ramp to U.S. 30 in Chester County Reopens to Two Lanes

12/21/2017-KING OF PRUSSIA

The ramp from southbound U.S. 202 to the U.S. 30/Exton Bypass and Business
U.S.
30 in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, has reopened to two lanes
following replacement of the deteriorated concrete in the pavement and in
the
sound wall foundations, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
(PennDOT)
announced today.

Crews removed the concrete construction barrier from the work area at the
off-ramp overnight Wednesday, December 20, to open the right lane of the
two-lane ramp early morning Thursday, December 21. The opening of the right

lane marked completion of the first-of-two stages of concrete replacement
on
the two-lane ramp.

Removal and replacement of the ramp's left lane pavement will be performed
at
night under temporary work zone traffic patterns beginning in early 2018 as

weather permits. Those temporary patterns will be removed each morning by
5:00
AM to provide motorists two-lanes on the ramp during peak travel times.

Deteriorated concrete on the ramp from the eastbound U.S. 30/Exton Bypass
to
northbound U.S. 202 will be replaced later in 2018.

Construction began last spring to replace deteriorated concrete in the
pavement
and in the deteriorated sound wall foundations at the interchange, reducing
the
ramp to one lane instead of two where it exits southbound U.S. 202. The
ramps
provide access from southbound U.S. 202 to U.S. 30/Business and the U.S.
30/Exton Bypass.

PennDOT is replacing the pavement and sound wall foundations after
discovering
that the original concrete, placed during construction of the Exton Bypass
during the mid-1990s, was deteriorating due to a chemical reaction between
the
concrete's sand and cement known by engineers as ASR (alkali-silica
reaction).

The concrete replacement operation is part of a $26.4 million project to
complete the final phase of the U.S. 202 Section 300 improvement project,
including the rehabilitation of two bridges over Amtrak rail lines and the
eastbound U.S. 30/Exton Bypass ramp to northbound U.S. 202 in East and West

Whiteland, Chester County.

Construction to rehabilitate the inside half of the northbound U.S. 202
bridge
over Amtrak and the U.S. 30 ramp is expected to finish in early 2018.
Rehabilitation of the outside half of the northbound bridge will begin
immediately after northbound traffic is shifted onto the rehabilitated
inside
half of the span.

Allan A. Myers, Inc. of Worcester, Montgomery County, is the general
contractor
on the project which is financed with 100 percent federal funds.

For more information on this project, visit www.us202-300.com.

For more information on other 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.

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