(IND) PennDOT spending $136M to fix local roads, bridges this year

The Philadelphia region will soon be riding on smoother roads and safer bridges as PennDOT is beginning a large number of infrastructure projects this year.

Funded by Act 89, the final title of the expansive transportation bill signed by Governor Corbett last November, PennDOT will have $946 million to spend in transportation funding, $136 million of which will go toward repairing bridges, highways and pavement ( potholes, anyone?) in the Philadelphia region.

“Many significant projects would not have come to fruition,” PennDOT said in a report, “or would have taken much longer to complete, without the transportation plan.”

The funds are split up as such: PennDOT will have $98 million in repairing highways and bridges, and $38 million to spend on repairing pavement.

Here are a few highlights:

Highway and bridge improvements

$242 million - Widening Route 322, the Conchester Highway, Delaware County

$120 million - Replacement of Vine Street Expressway Bridges, involving seven new superstructures 18th Street, the Family Court Pedestrian Walkway, 19th Street, the Free Library Pedestrian Walkway, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, 21st Street and 22nd Street over Interstate 676 in the City of Philadelphia

$51 million - U.S. 422 Highway, bridge and interchange improvements from Berks County line to bridge over Schuylkill River, Montgomery County

$11 million - Holme Avenue Bridge replacement, Philadelphia

$8.5 million - Spring Garden Street Bridge rehabilitation, Philadelphia

$8.3 million - PA 213/W. Maple Avenue Bridge replacement, Bucks County

Pavement improvement

Full-width resurfacing

8.5 miles - PA 63 (Main Street/Sumneytown Pike) from PA 29/Gravel Pike to Upper Mainland Road, Upper Salford and Lower Salford townships, Montgomery County

8.3 miles - U.S. 1 (City Avenue) from bridge over Schuylkill River to just west of Haverford Avenue (Montgomery County line), Philadelphia and Montgomery County

6.1 miles - PA 132 (Street Road) from PA 532/Bustleton Pike to I-95, Lower Southampton and Bensalem townships, Bucks County

5.2 miles - I-95 from just north of PA 420 in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, to the Girard Point Bridge in Philadelphia

Area Resurfacing

9.5 miles - PA 309 (Sellersville Bypass) from Church Road to Tollgate Road in Hilltown and West Rockhill townships, Bucks County (9.5 miles)

8.3 miles - I-476 from Conestoga Road to U.S. 1 (City Avenue) from bridge over Schuylkill River to just west of Haverford Avenue (Montgomery County line), Philadelphia and Montgomery County

3.6 miles - I-95 South from just south of I-476 to Highland Avenue in Chester Township, City of Chester, Upland Borough, Chester Township, Delaware County

Source: Philadelphia Business Journal

Check out the list for the surrounding counties here…

The complete URL to the list is here:  ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/TRANSPLAN/06%20District%202014%20Projects.pdf