PennDOT reopens Edenton Road Bridge

UPPER OXFORD TOWNSHIP >> The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has reopened the Edenton Road bridge over Rattlesnake Run in Upper Oxford Township, Chester County.

PennDOT began construction in February to replace the deteriorated bridge deck and repair the abutments. The one-span, wood deck bridge was built in 1936. It is 12 feet long and 21 feet wide, and carries an average of 199 vehicles a day. Following its rehabilitation, the bridge is no longer categorized as structurally deficient.

The bridge carrying Edenton Road bridge over Rattlesnake

Run is the first of four bridges to be completed under PennDOT’s $11,766,000 project to rehabilitate four structurally deficient bridges in Bucks, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, and replace six structurally deficient culverts in Bucks, Chester and Delaware counties.

Under this project, the contractor also will replace deteriorated culverts at the following locations: State Road bridge over a branch of Cooks Creek in Springfield Township, Bucks County; Rocky Ridge Road over a branch of Tohickon Creek, Richland Township, Bucks County; White Horse Road over a branch of Pickering Creek in Schuylkill Township, Chester County; Route 282 (Creek Road) over a branch of Brandywine Creek in East Brandywine Township, Chester County; Route 82 (Doe Run Road) in East Fallowfield Township, Chester County; and MacDade Boulevard over the Muckinipattis Creek in Glenolden Borough, Delaware County.

PennDOT is currently rehabilitating the Route 663 (Layfield Road) bridge over the Perkiomen Creek in Upper Hanover Township, Montgomery County; Oxford Valley Road bridge over U.S. 1 in Falls and Lower Makefield townships, Bucks County; and the Torresdale Avenue bridge over Academy Road in Philadelphia.

Loftus Construction, Inc. of Cinnaminson, N.J., is the general contractor on this bridge improvement contract that is financed with 100 percent state funds through Act 89, Pennsylvania’s transportation plan.

All work on the project is expected to be completed in August 2018.

CHRIS BARBER — DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA The bridge over Rattlesnake Run is now open again.