PennDOT to Begin Rehabilitation of Thatcher Road Bridge over Kimples Creek in Bucks County

PennDOT to Begin Rehabilitation of Thatcher Road Bridge over Kimples Creek
in Bucks County

5/8/2018-KING OF PRUSSIA

Construction is scheduled to begin on Monday, May 21, on a project to
rehabilitate the bridge carrying Thatcher Road over Kimples Creek in
Haycock
Township, Bucks County, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
(PennDOT)
announced today. The bridge is expected to reopen in late July.

Due to the nature of the repairs, Thatcher Road will be closed and detoured

between Old Bethlehem Road and Covered Bridge Road. Thatcher Road motorists

will be directed to use Old Bethlehem Road, Mountain View Drive and Route
313
(Dublin Pike).

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

As part of the bridge rehabilitation, crews are repairing the existing
concrete
bridge deck using hydro demolition and applying a latex modified concrete
overlay; resealing the existing deck joints at the abutments; performing
concrete repairs to the substructure; replacing bridge railing; installing
guiderail; and milling and paving the bridge approaches.

The Thatcher Road bridge over Kimples Creek was built in 1972. The
one-span,
prestressed concrete spread box beam bridge is 55 feet long, 48 feet wide
and
carries an average of 996 vehicles a day.

The structure is one of 11 bridges in Bucks, Chester and Montgomery
counties
that PennDOT is repairing under a $5,505,505 project financed by Act 89,
the
state's transportation plan.

Structures completed under this project include:

• Farmington Avenue over Route 100 (Pottstown Pike) in Upper Pottsgrove
Township, Montgomery County;
• Gypsy Lane over Interstate 76 in Upper Merion Township, Montgomery
County;
• Northbound U.S. 1 over Church Road in New Garden Township, Chester
County;
• Southbound U.S. 1 over Church Road in New Garden Township, Chester
County;
• Cowpath Road over Perkiomen Creek in Salford and Franconia townships,
Montgomery County;
• Township Road over U.S. 1 in Lower Oxford Township, Chester County;
• University Road bridge over U.S. 1 in Upper Oxford Township, Chester
County;
• Spring Garden Street bridge over Interstate 76 in West Conshohocken
Borough,
Montgomery County; and
• Terwood Road bridge over Pennypack Creek in Upper Moreland Township,
Montgomery County.

The remaining bridge included in this rehabilitation project includes:

• Thatcher Road over Tohickon Creek in Richland Township, Bucks County.

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

Loftus Construction, Inc., of Cinnaminson, N.J., is the general contractor
on
the project which is financed with 100 percent state funds through Act 89,
Pennsylvania's transportation plan.

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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