PennDOT Reopens Pocopson Road Bridge over Pocopson Creek in Chester County

PennDOT Reopens Pocopson Road Bridge over Pocopson Creek in Chester County

6/12/2018-KING OF PRUSSIA

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) reopened the bridge

carrying Pocopson Road over Pocopson Creek in Pennsbury and Pocopson
townships,
Chester County, today following the completion of a rehabilitation project.

Over the last six weeks, PennDOT's contractor worked to rehabilitate the
bridge
by removing and rebuilding three of the four wingwalls and performing other

miscellaneous repairs on the structure.

Built in 1929, the single-span concrete encased steel I-beam bridge is 32
feet
long, 20 feet wide and carries an average of 1,685 vehicles a day.

This bridge improvement project was performed under PennDOT's $11,766,000
project to rehabilitate 10 structurally-deficient bridges in Bucks,
Chester,
Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, and replace six
structurally-deficient
culverts in Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties.

The bridges/culverts currently under construction include:

• Grubbs Mill Road over Crum Creek in Willistown Township, Chester County;
and
• MacDade Boulevard over the Muckinipattis Creek in Glenolden Borough,
Delaware
County.

Structures completed under this project include:

• Street Road over Octoraro Creek in Upper Oxford Township, Chester County;
• White Horse Road over a branch of Pickering Creek in Schuylkill Township,

Chester County;
• Rocky Ridge Road over a branch of Tohickon Creek in Richland Township,
Bucks
County;
• State Road over a branch of Cooks Creek in Springfield Township, Bucks
County;
• Route 282 (Creek Road) over a branch of Brandywine Creek in East
Brandywine
Township, Chester County;
• Route 113 (Souderton Road) over Mill Creek in Hilltown Township, Bucks
County;
• Henry Avenue over Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia;
• The historic Loux Covered Bridge over Cabin Run on Carver-Wismer Road in
Bedminster Township, Bucks County;
• Oxford Valley Road over U.S. 1 in Falls, Lower Makefield and Middletown
townships, Bucks County;
• Route 663 (Layfield Road) bridge over Green Lane Reservoir Creek in Upper

Hanover Township, Montgomery County;
• Edenton Road bridge over Rattlesnake Run in Upper Oxford Township,
Chester
County;
• Torresdale Avenue bridge over Academy Road in Philadelphia; and
• Route 82 (Doe Run Road) over a branch of Sucker Run in East Fallowfield
Township, Chester County.

Loftus Construction, Inc. of Cinnaminson, N.J., is the general contractor
on
this project that is financed with 100 percent state funds through Act 89,
Pennsylvania's transportation plan. Work on the entire project is expected
to
be completed in August 2019.

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 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 860 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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