PennDOT - District 6 News
PennDOT Reopens the Whitford Road Bridge over Valley Creek in West Whiteland Township, Chester County
King of Prussia, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has reopened the bridge carrying Whitford Road over Valley Creek in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, following the completion of a rehabilitation project.
PennDOT's contractor replaced the existing superstructure, installed new parapets and bridge deck, performed concrete spall repairs, repaired guiderail, and paved bridge approaches.
Built in 1967, the single-span box beam bridge is 52 feet long and 38 feet wide. The structure carries an average of 6,862 vehicles a day.
The Whitford Road bridge is one of ten structures in Chester and Montgomery counties that PennDOT is repairing under a $9.8 million project financed by Act 89, the state's transportation plan.
Structures completed under this project include:
• Boot Road over Route 100 in West Whiteland Township, Chester County;
• Main Street over Norfolk Southern Railroad in Limerick Township, Montgomery County;
• Route 611 over Pennypack Creek in Upper Moreland, Montgomery County;
• Route 611 over the Pennsylvania Turnpike ramp in Upper Moreland, Montgomery County;
• Old Lancaster Road over Amtrak in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County
• Ross Fording Road over Octoraro Creek in West Fallowfield Township, Chester County;
• Quakertown Road over Macoby Creek in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County; and
• Route 63 (Welsh Road) over Norfolk Southern Railroad in Upper Dublin and Upper Moreland townships, Montgomery County.
The other bridge in this rehabilitation project include:
• Route 532 (Bustleton Avenue) over CSX Railroad in Philadelphia.
Loftus Construction, Inc. of Cinnaminson, N.J., is the general contractor on this bridge improvement project that 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 or downloading the 511PA application for iPhone and Android devices. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information, and access to more than 950 traffic cameras.
Follow PennDOT on Twitter at www.twitter.com/511PAPhilly and like the department on Facebook at www.facebook.com/groups/phillypenndot and Instagram at www.instagram.com/pennsylvaniadot.
MEDIA CONTACT: Robyn Briggs, 610-205-6799
# # #
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
No comments:
Post a Comment