PennDOT - District 6 News: ennDOT to Begin Rehabilitation of Two Bridges in Delaware County

An update has been published to District 6 News on the PennDOT website. Please see below for details.

PennDOT - District 6 News

ennDOT to Begin Rehabilitation of Two Bridges in Delaware County

​King of Prussia, PA – Construction is scheduled to begin next week to rehabilitate the bridge carrying State Road/Lansdowne Avenue over Cobbs Creek in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County and the City of Philadelphia, and the bridge carrying Baltimore Pike over Darby Creek in Clifton Heights and Lansdowne boroughs and Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today.

PennDOT will rehabilitate the structure over Cobbs Creek by performing scour rock placement repairs; repairing the brick masonry; and milling and overlaying the roadway surface.

Beginning Thursday, September 20, through December, a single lane closure is scheduled weekdays from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM on State Road/Lansdowne Avenue between Parkview Road and Cardington Road for bridge construction.

Built in 1935, the single-span, two-lane bridge is 33 feet long, 52 feet wide and carries an average of 9,401 vehicles a day. It is currently posted for 34 tons and 40 tons for combination vehicles.

PennDOT will rehabilitate the structure over Darby Creek by performing substructure concrete surface repairs; repointing the masonry of the arch stones; and milling and overlaying the roadway surface.

Beginning Thursday, September 20, through April 2019, a single lane closure is scheduled weekdays from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Baltimore Pike between Jackson Street and Burmont Road/Scottdale Road for bridge construction.

Built in 1919, the three-span, three-lane bridge is 78 feet long, 49 feet wide and carries an average of 13,586 vehicles a day. It is currently posted for 36 tons and 40 tons for combination vehicles.

The bridges are two of nine structures in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties that PennDOT is repairing under a $7,407,987 improvement project financed by Act 89, the state's transportation plan.

Structures completed under this project include:

• Hares Hill Road over French Creek in East Pikeland Township, Chester County;
• Morwood Road culvert over a branch of Perkiomen Creek in Franconia Township, Montgomery County;
• Route 232 (Second Street Pike) over a branch of Mill Creek in Wrightstown Township, Bucks County;
• Sugan Road over Cuttalossa Creek in Solebury Township, Bucks County; and
• Old Forty Foot Road over Branch of Skippack Creek in Lower Salford and Towamencin townships, Montgomery County.

The other structures included in this rehabilitation project include:

• 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.

Subscribe to PennDOT news and traffic alerts in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties 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.

Follow PennDOT on Twitter at www.twitter.com/PennDOTNews and like the department on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PennsylvaniaDepartmentofTransportation and Instagram at www.instagram.com/pennsylvaniadot.

MEDIA CONTACT: Ayanna Williams, 610-205-6801

# # #

 

Read More
Please note: you are receiving this email because you have subscribed to receive updates for District 6 News on the PennDOT website. To unsubscribe, or to find additional subscriptions available from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, please click the Manage Subscriptions link below.

Manage Subscriptions