A single lane on East Park Avenue, which crosses through Schwenksville and Perkiomen, will be closed weekdays from Sept. 21 through late October to make bridge repairs, PennDOT said Thursday.
Transportation
Parents and other drivers of young children can be certain of their safety by having child car seats checked In Lower Salford and Phoenixville. The free service is being offered during National Child Passenger Safety Week.
Both sides of U.S. Route 422, between its Sanatoga and Armand Hammer Boulevard interchanges, will close overnights only from Sept. 26 through Oct. 8 for bridge work. Detour routes will be available
Amity Township police warned residents of areas surrounding the intersection of U.S. Route 422 and Monocacy Creek Road to avoid it for two to four weeks. Highway widening work began there Monday. Use other nearby roads, they suggested.
The intersection of Pineford Road and Summer Grove Lane in Upper Pottsgrove Township is scheduled to be temporarily closed Wednesday and Thursday due to sanitary sewer installation work.
Drivers headed to or from Lower Frederick, accustomed to using the bridges at Salford Station or Hendricks Station roads to cross the Perkiomen Creek, may want to think twice. They could be unusable for awhile.
If you ever needed proof of the brute power of rushing water, or evidence to validate the saying "Turn Around, Don't Drown!", see Thursday's debris at the North Sunnybrook Road bridge in Lower Pottsgrove.
Storm-engorged flood waters in Swamp Creek overwhelmed and significantly damaged the bridge at Spring Mount Road and Gravel Pike in Lower Frederick. Crews had begun repair work Thursday.
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