U.S. 322 Daytime, Nighttime Restrictions Begin Next Week for Improvement Project in Concord Township, Delaware County

U.S. 322 Daytime, Nighttime Restrictions Begin Next Week for Improvement
Project in Concord Township, Delaware County

3/28/2018-KING OF PRUSSIA

Periodic daytime and overnight lane closures will be in place starting next

week on U.S. 322 (Conchester Highway) from U.S. 1 (Baltimore Pike) to just
east
of Clayton Park Drive in Concord Township, Delaware County, as year two of
construction begins on the $62.2 million project to improve and widen the
highway, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced
today.

On Mondays through Fridays, beginning April 2, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, and
on
Mondays through Thursdays, from 7:00 PM to 5:00 AM the following morning,
flaggers will direct an alternating single lane of traffic on U.S. 322
(Conchester Highway) through various work areas along the 2.6-mile
construction
zone. These daytime and overnight operations will continue through late
fall.

Drivers are also reminded that U.S. 322 (Conchester Highway) access to and
from
Cambridge Drive will close for approximately seven weeks beginning Monday,
April 2, for reconstruction of the intersection. Similar construction
activities also closed access to and from Station Road on the south side of
the
highway for four weeks beginning on March 26.

Motorists should expect significant delays on U.S. 322 (Conchester
Highway),
allow extra time for travel through the work areas, or use an alternate
route.
All scheduled activities are weather dependent.

Crews are setting temporary construction barrier along the outer edges of
the
existing eastbound and westbound lanes and continuing installation of
stormwater drainage pipes, culverts and basins across the work zone.
Excavation
that began in 2017 also will resume, mainly along the eastbound side of the

highway where work will begin later this spring to construct two new
eastbound
lanes.

PennDOT began construction last spring on the first-of-two mainline
projects to
widen and reconstruct a 6.7-mile section of U.S. 322 (Conchester Highway)
from
U.S. 1 (Baltimore Pike) to just east of Route 452 (Market Street) in
Concord,
Bethel and Upper Chichester townships. Work on the first mainline section
of
U.S. 322 (Conchester Highway) is scheduled to be completed in late 2020.

J.D. Eckman, Inc. of Atglen, Chester County, is the general contractor on
the
project which is financed with 80 percent federal and 20 percent state
funds.

Engineering design is advancing for the widening and reconstruction of the
eastern section (Section 102) of the highway from just east of Clayton Park

Drive to just east of Route 452 (Market Street). Construction on this
section
is expected to start in 2019.

An additional contract to replace the U.S. 322 (Conchester Highway) bridge
over
the CSX railroad and Bethel Road as well as improvements to the adjacent
Bethel
Road Interchange is under design.

For more information and to sign up for email alerts about the project, go
to
www.us322conchester.com.

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
information on Twitter at www.twitter.com/511PAPhilly, and follow the
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