SANATOGA PA – When will the bridge be finished? Or, perhaps more importantly, will work to repair the East High Street bridge over Sanatoga Creek – between Sanatoga Road and Allison Drive – be completed by the time school buses are scheduled to pick up students later this month?
A backhoe operator digs in the foreground, while masons on scaffolding behind him work Wednesday morning (Aug. 18, 2010) to repair the closed East High Street bridge in Sanatoga.
Both questions weighed heavily two weeks ago on the minds of members of the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners, who asked their engineering firm to get a progress report from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation on the bridge repair schedule.
Tonight (Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010) at 7, when they meet again in the municipal building, 2199 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA, commissioners are likely to expect answers from the engineers at Bursich Associates. The board’s meeting, its second of the month, is open to the public.
Commissioners have long worried that extended repairs to the crumbling stone arch bridge would interfere with both the bus routes of the Pottsgrove School District, which opens its schools on Aug. 30 (Monday), and traffic to businesses lining East High. During their Aug. 2 meeting they also complained the contractor doing the work for PennDOT seemed to keep irregular hours.
The contractor’s workers were in evidence Wednesday morning (Aug. 18) at 8:20, as crews bustled about tasks atop and on both ides of the closed bridge.
Other items up for board discussion were unknown as of 6:30 a.m. today, because tonight’s meeting agenda had not yet been posted on the township website. If and when it becomes available, it can be downloaded here.
Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Aug. 19 meeting):
Related (to the East High Street bridge):
- Bridge Repair Schedule Likely On Tonight’s Agenda
- Commissioners Ask For Bridge Progress Report
- Sanatoga Bridge Torn Up; Choose Alternate Route
- Bridge Closing Affects School Buses This Week
- Plans Ready For 422 Emergency When Bridge Closes
- Bridge Work Started, But You Might Miss It
- PennDOT To Fine Contractor For Bridge Work Delays
- Traffic Pattern Shifts Ahead At 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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