Tips for navigating Delco’s roads this week
Cold weather doesn’t faze PennDOT. Not does it stop road work.
Here are this week’s road projects you need to be aware of to avoid traffic this week:
I-95-Chester
Double lane closures are scheduled over the next two weeks on Interstate 95 in both directions in Chester from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning for bridge demolition as part of a project to rehabilitate eight bridges over I-95 and CSX Railroad in the city. The work schedule is: Monday, Dec. 10, through Wednesday, Dec. 12, the right and center lanes will be closed on northbound I-95 between Kerlin Street (Exit 5) and the Chestnut Street Bridge overpass;
Thursday, Dec. 13, and Friday, Dec. 14, the left and center lanes will be closed on northbound I-95 between Kerlin Street (Exit 5) and the Chestnut Street Bridge overpass;
Friday, Dec. 14, the left and center lanes will be closed on southbound I-95 between Interstate 476 and the Chestnut Street Bridge overpass;
Monday, Dec. 17, through Friday, Dec. 21, the left and center lanes will be closed on northbound I-95 between Kerlin Street (Exit 5) and the Chestnut Street Bridge overpass; and
Monday, Dec. 17, through Friday, Dec. 21, the left and center lanes will be closed on southbound I-95 between Interstate 476 and the Chestnut Street Bridge overpass.
Motorists are advised to use an alternate route or allow extra time when traveling on I-95 in the work areas because backups and delays will occur. All scheduled activities are weather dependent and subject to change.
Under this $19.7 million improvement project, PennDOT is rehabilitating the multi-span, steel girder bridges on Potter Street, Madison Street, Upland Street, Melrose Avenue, Chestnut Street, Edgmont Avenue, and the Crosby Street and Walnut Street pedestrian structures. The contractor is also improving the I-95 south exit ramp at Chestnut Street.
PennDOT owns the Edgmont Avenue and Madison Street bridges, and the City of Chester owns the remaining six structures.
In addition to the bridge and ramp improvements, PennDOT’s contractor is repairing Chestnut Street and Morton Avenue from 12th Street to 4th Street; reconstructing curbs and sidewalks; milling and resurfacing the streets; installing a new traffic signal at Chestnut Street and Morton Avenue; upgrading the traffic signal at Morton Avenue and 7th Street; and reconstructing Morton Avenue from 7th Street to 4th Street to lower the road under the Amtrak overpass to increase vertical clearance.
Newtown
Aqua Pennsylvania is planning road closures on Goshen Road between Route 252 (Newtown Street Road) and Crum Creek Lane in Newtown Township, Delaware County, beginning Wednesday, Dec. 12, for road improvements. Weather permitting, the closure will be in place weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. through the end of December.
During the closure, Goshen Road motorists will be detoured over Route 252 (Newtown Street Road), Route 3 Westbound (West Chester Pike), Providence Road, and Goshen Road. Local access will be maintained up to the work zone.
Radnor
• Radnor Chester Road, weeknight lane restrictions between Lancaster Avenue and Newtown Road, 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. Dec. 3 to Dec. 21 for gas main improvement.
Route 202, Chester County
U.S. 202 motorists in Chester County will encounter lane and ramp restrictions at night next week for construction to set up a traffic shift that will move a single lane of southbound traffic onto the newly-rehabilitated inner half of the southbound bridge over Amtrak at the U.S. 30 Interchange in East and West Whiteland townships.
On Monday, Dec. 10, through Thursday, Dec. 13, from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., and from 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 14, to 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec.
15, northbound and southbound U.S. 202 will be reduced from two lanes-to-one between the U.S. 30/Exton Bypass and Boot Road interchanges.
In addition, on Monday, Dec. 10, through Wednesday, Dec. 12, from 8 p.m. to
5 a.m., the ramp from the eastbound U.S. 30/Exton Bypass to northbound U.S. 202 will be closed. U.S. 30/Exton Bypass motorists heading to northbound U.S. 202 will be directed to exit at Business U.S. 30, turn right onto Business U.S. 30 and right onto the ramp to northbound U.S.
202.
The lane and ramp closures will allow crews to place and adjust construction barriers and paint traffic lines on and approaching the southbound U.S. 202 bridge over Amtrak.
By 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec.
15, a single lane of southbound U.S. 202 traffic will shift onto the rebuilt inner half of the southbound bridge over Amtrak. Work to rehabilitate the outer half of the bridge will then begin the following Monday.
A second southbound lane will continue in the “express lane” traffic pattern that has been in place on the rehabilitated northbound bridge since the start of southbound construction last July. Two northbound lanes will remain on the northbound side through the work zone for the remainder of the project.