Borough manager outlines Penn Avenue bridge replacement plan and timeline
Summary
Borough Manager Michael Hart said engineers expect to advertise the full bridge replacement of Penn Avenue at Park Road possibly next year; construction is estimated at about two-and-a-half years and will require temporary traffic re-routing and lane shifts, with westward widening limited by a petroleum pipeline.
Borough Manager Michael Hart told council members that engineering for the Penn Avenue at Park Road bridge is proceeding as a full replacement. He said the project may be ready to let early next year and that construction could take roughly two-and-a-half years.
Hart described traffic impacts: Park Avenue will be closed for construction with traffic redirected via Wynnewood and Ralph avenues; Penn Avenue will remain open but with shifted lanes. He also explained that options to widen the structure to the west are limited by an existing petroleum pipeline, and that the borough raised concerns about how the narrow bridge constricts the waterway during heavy rain.
AI generated
The text on this page is AI generated. Summaries, highlights, analysis, and video transcripts are all produced from the original source material.
AI can make mistakes, so if you spot one, and we will fix it for everyone.
Note: the source content is unaltered by us. Any content source we link to, be it a video, an audio recording, or a document, is presented exactly as its publisher released it. That publisher is usually a government body, sometimes an individual official or another organisation.
