Daytime lane restrictions on US 1 both directions next week between I-95 & Stony Hill Rd.
Weekday Lane Closures Scheduled Next Week on U.S. 1 for Overhead Bridge Rehabilitation in Bucks County
Daytime lane restrictions are scheduled on northbound and southbound U.S. 1 between Interstate 95 and Stony Hill Road in in Falls, Middletown and Lower Makefield townships, Bucks County, on Monday, May 15, through Friday, May 19, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, for the rehabilitation of the structurally deficient Oxford Valley Road overpass, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) today announced.
Motorists are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the construction area because slowdowns may occur. The work schedule is weather dependent.
Crews began construction on November 14, 2016, to rehabilitate the Oxford Valley Road bridge over U.S. 1. The bridge remains open to traffic while the contractor repairs structural damage sustained when the bridge was struck by an oversized truck on June 29, 2015. Crews will replace two steel beams and repair three steel beams. Construction on the bridge is scheduled to finish in June 2017.
The three-span, steel-I beam bridge was built in 1972. It is 167 feet long and 90 feet wide. The structure carries 31,000 vehicles a day.
The work is part of PennDOT’s $11,766,000 project to rehabilitate four structurally deficient bridges in Bucks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties, and replace six structurally deficient culverts in Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties.
Over the last two months, the bridge carrying Torresdale Avenue over Academy Road in Philadelphia and the Edenton Road bridge over Rattlesnake Run in Upper Oxford Township, Chester County, were completed under this project. PennDOT is also rehabilitating the Route 663 (Layfield Road) bridge over the Perkiomen Creek in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County.
The contractor also will replace deteriorated culverts at the following locations: State Road bridge over a branch of Cooks Creek in Springfield Township, Bucks County; Rocky Ridge Road over a branch of Tohickon Creek, Richland Township, Bucks County; White Horse Road over a branch of Pickering Creek in Schuylkill Township, Chester County; Route 282 (Creek Road) over a branch of Brandywine Creek in East Brandywine Township, Chester County; Route 82 (Doe Run Road) in East Fallowfield Township, Chester County; and MacDade Boulevard over the Muckinipattis Creek in Glenolden Borough, Delaware 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 project is expected to be completed in August 2018.
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.
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Address/Location
Middletown Township Police Department
5 Municipal Way
Langhorne, PA 19047
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 215-750-3845