Turnpike commission to hold meeting about Southern Beltway
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission will hold a public meeting in Bridgeville on Wednesday to announce details for construction of the next two-mile section of the Southern Beltway in Cecil Township.
This $87.1 million, 1.82mile project, from Cecil Reissing Road near McDonald to Route 50, will include construction of four bridges and an interchange on Reissing Road about one mile from Route 50. Contractor Beaver Excavating Co. of Canton, Ohio, also will move about 4 million cubic yards of earth to eliminate hills and fill in valleys for the new toll road.
The work is part of the 13mile, $800 million extension of the beltway from Route 22 to Interstate 79 along the Allegheny-Washington County border. The project initially had been estimated at $700 million.
The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Sygan SNPJ Lodge #6 Hall at 540 3rd Ave. The commission will provide information on detours, blast zones and other construction activities expected during the project.
As part of the project, crews will build two bridges to carry east- and westbound traffic over Route 50, the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway and Millers Run Road. Another bridge will connect Cecil Reissing with Route 50, and the fourth will act as an overpass for Cecil Sturgeon Road over the interchange.
This is the fourth of eight contracts the commission expects to issue for the beltway extension. None of the sections will open until all of the 13-mile extension is completed in 2020.