A car travels across the Sunnybrook Road bridge over Sprogels Run, north of East High Street.
SANATOGA PA – Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township’s negotiations are back on track with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) over the repair of guard rails on the Sunnybrook Road bridge that crosses Sprogels Run, according to township Engineer Scott Exley of Bursich Associates. The talks suffered a delay neither Exley or the state expected, he said.
“We’ve been going back and forth with PennDOT” on the issue,” Exley told the township Board of Commissioners last week (Monday, June 1, 2009) during the first of its two monthly meetings, “but we’re on top of it,” he said.
PennDOT earlier this year claimed top-priority repairs needed to be made to the bridge just north of Kepler Road and slightly more than a half-mile from the intersection of Sunnybrook Road and East High Street. The agency’s chief complaint was that its guardrails needed fixing.
Conversations bogged down recently, Exley said, because PennDOT had too much on its plate with the onset of projects rushed to begin upon arrival of federal economic stimulus money. “The guy I’ve been talking with on this just didn’t have time to get back to me,” Exley noted. “There was too much else going on.”
The township hopes to complete whatever repairs are necessary by month’s end.
Related:
Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Commissioners’ June 1 meeting):
- Keeping Their Eyes On The Pump
- Bateman Trail Cut Into Open Space
- Township Reconsiders Charitable Donations
- PennDOT Set For Meeting On Bridge Work
