SANATOGA PA – Repair of the East High Street bridge that crosses Sanatoga Creek between Sanatoga Road and Allison Drive begins in earnest next Monday (April 19, 2010), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s District 6-0 office in King of Prussia PA announced yesterday (Monday, April 12).
Traffic shifts may begin next week on the East High Street bridge between Sanatoga Road and Allison Drive.
Crossing Construction Co. of Washington Crossing PA, which won the bid to rehabilitate the 96-year-old stone arch bridge, is likely Monday to begin preliminary work that includes altering lanes across the bridge to create a shift in the street’s traffic pattern, according to PennDOT. The agency announcement did not specify if the change will be created with cones, barriers, painted lines, or by other means.
The traffic shift is expected to be in effect, it added, Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on weekends from Friday at 6 p.m. through Monday at 6 a.m. for 95 total days between April 19 and July 13.
After that, township officials have been told, the bridge and highway will be closed so remaining repairs can be completed. Its re-opening isn’t expected until late August, with plans for a detour that takes drivers over Evergreen Road, U.S. Route 422, and Armand Hammer Boulevard. Access to all adjacent properties will be maintained throughout construction, PennDOT has said.
Crossing Construction is being paid $2,212,369 for the rehab work, which includes removal of “deteriorated” parapets and a stone wingwall, repairing the existing stone arches and three remaining three wingwalls, removing old pavement and installing a new concrete slab with an asphalt top, and replacing the parapets with concrete walls covered by stone veneers.
News of the bridge-lane shift follows a pre-construction meeting PennDOT held last Thursday (April 8) in King of Prussia. It was attended on behalf of Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township by Chad Camburn of Bursich Associates, the township’s engineering firm.
Related (to the East High Street bridge):
- State Says High St. Bridge Repairs To Cost $2.2M
- PennDOT Offer Sanatoga Bridge Work Timeline
- Details Are In That Pesky Paperwork
- PennDOT Set For Meeting On Bridge Work
- Missing Walks Latest Bridge Complaint
- Will Road Be Closed When School Re-Opens?
- State Says No To Keeping Bridge Open
- Township Looks To Pols For Bridge Help
- Bridge Closing Threatens Businesses, Board Says
- Sanatoga Bridge Closing This Spring
- Bridge Repairs Next Year
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