U.S. 202 North Lane, Ramp Closures, Traffic Shift Next Weekend in Chester County

U.S. 202 North Lane, Ramp Closures, Traffic Shift Next Weekend in Chester
County

1/25/2018-KING OF PRUSSIA

Lane and ramp closures will be in place next weekend on northbound U.S. 202

between the Boot Road and U.S. 30 interchanges in East Whiteland and West
Whiteland townships, Chester County, to complete a traffic shift on the
northbound bridge over Amtrak, the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation
(PennDOT) announced today.

From 10:00 PM Friday, February 2, to 10:00 AM Saturday, February 3, the
right
lane will be closed on northbound U.S. 202 approaching the work area as
crews
prepare to shift a single lane of northbound traffic onto the rebuilt
inside
half of the bridge Saturday morning. During the operation, a single lane
of
northbound traffic will travel through the work area using the northbound
express lane that has been established on the southbound side of the
expressway.

During the Express Lane traffic shift, northbound U.S. 202 motorists will
not
have access to the exit ramp to U.S. 30. The detour will direct northbound
U.S.
202 motorists to continue to the Route 401 (Conestoga Road) Interchange and

turn right onto Route 401 (Conestoga Road) to reach U.S. 30 (Lancaster
Avenue).

Motorists are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the
construction area because slowdowns will occur. The work schedule is
weather
dependent.

The traffic shift marks the completion of the first stage of rehabilitation
of
the northbound bridge over the Amtrak rail lines at the southern end of the

U.S. 202/U.S. 30 Interchange that began in March 2017. During that stage,
crews
rehabilitated the left side of the northbound structure, cleaning and
refurbishing the steel superstructure and replacing the concrete deck and
parapets.

Following the shift, crews will begin approximately six months of work to
remove the existing concrete deck and parapets; rehabilitate the steel
superstructure; and redeck the outside half of the northbound bridge.

When work on the northbound bridge is completed in mid-2018, a new traffic
pattern will be established in the work zone for rehabilitation of the
southbound bridge. That new pattern will move two lanes of northbound
traffic
onto the northbound bridge and establish a single southbound express lane
on
the northbound structure.

One lane of southbound traffic will then be maintained on the southbound
bridge
while the southbound structure is rehabilitated and redecked a
half-at-a-time.

PennDOT completed replacement of the deteriorated concrete pavement on the
outer lane of the two-lane southbound U.S. 202 ramp to U.S. 30/Exton Bypass
in
December 2017. The concrete pavement on the inner lane of the two-lane
off-ramp
will be replaced at night and on weekends under temporary work zone traffic

patterns beginning in early spring. 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 beginning this spring.

The work is part of a $26.4 million project to rehabilitate the northbound
and
southbound U.S. 202 bridges over Amtrak and the adjacent U.S. 30 ramp, and
to
remove and replace deteriorated concrete pavement on the U.S. 202 ramps to
and
from the U.S. 30/Exton Bypass.

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.

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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