Old Forty Foot Road Bridge over Skippack Creek to Close Wednesday in Towamencin Township, Montgomery County

Old Forty Foot Road Bridge over Skippack Creek to Close Wednesday in
Towamencin Township, Montgomery County

4/3/2018-KING OF PRUSSIA

The bridge carrying Old Forty Foot Road over Skippack Creek in Towamencin
Township, Montgomery County will close this week, while another bridge on
the
same state highway is scheduled to reopen, the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation (PennDOT) announced today.

The Old Forty Foot Road bridge over Skippack Creek will be closed and
detoured
beginning Wednesday, April 4, after structural damage was discovered during
a
recent inspection. Construction is expected to begin this month to replace
the
three-span, steel I-beam bridge with a new two-span, pre-stressed, concrete

spread box beam bridge. The new structure will be 124 feet long, 35 feet
wide
and will include five-foot shoulders. Construction is expected to be
completed
in summer 2019.

During the bridge closure, Old Forty Foot Road motorists will be directed
to
use Route 63 (Sumneytown Pike), Bustard Road, and Route 73 (Skippack Pike).

Local access will be maintained up to the bridge. Motorists are advised to
allow extra time when traveling through the area.

The bridge carrying Old Forty Foot Road over Skippack Creek was originally
built in 1934. The current structure is 116 feet long, 22 feet wide and has
a
posted weight limit of 12 tons. The bridge carries an average of 5,217
vehicles
a day.

H&K Group of Skippack, Montgomery County is the general contractor on the
$1,479,567 bridge improvement project which is financed with 80 percent
federal
and 20 percent state funds.

Meanwhile, PennDOT will open the stone arch bridge carrying Old Forty Foot
Road
over a branch of Skippack Creek between Township Line Road and Kober Road
in
Lower Salford and Towamencin townships on Wednesday, April 4. Built in 1840
and
rehabilitated in 1930, the one-span structure is 11 feet long, 31 feet
wide,
and carries an average of 5,846 vehicles a day.

This stone arch bridge on Old Forty Foot Road is one of nine structures in
Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties that PennDOT
is
rehabilitating under a $7,407,987 project financed by Act 89, the state's
transportation plan.

The bridges currently under construction include:

• Sugan Road over Cuttalossa Creek in Solebury Township, Bucks County; and
• Route 232 (Second Street Pike) over a branch of Mill Creek in Wrightstown

Township, Bucks County.

The other structures included in this nine-bridge rehabilitation project
include:

• Hares Hill Road over French Creek in East Pikeland Township, Chester
County;
• Baltimore Pike over Darby Creek in Clifton Heights and Lansdowne boroughs
and
Upper Darby Township, Delaware County;
• State Road/Lansdowne Avenue over Cobbs Creek in Upper Darby Township,
Delaware County, and the City of Philadelphia;
• Wissahickon Avenue over Monoshone Creek in Philadelphia; and
• Ridge Pike over Perkiomen Creek in Collegeville Borough and Lower
Providence
Township, Montgomery County.

Work on the entire project is expected to be completed in late summer 2019.

J.D. Eckman, Inc., of Atglen, Chester County, is the general contractor on
the
bridge improvement 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.

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