Bridge - 2023 Railroad Bridge Replacement
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THE BRIDGE IS OPEN (Nov 2, 2023) (Photo from Facebook listing of THE TIMES of Port Royal)
Contributed by rkohler3 on 11/5/23 - Image Year: 2023
WORK ON PORT ROYAL BRIDGE TO BEGIN THURSDAY
(From the Sentinel Sep 13, 2022)
(Last paragraph from Erdman Anthony, Design Engineering Firm.)
PORT ROYAL — PennDOT will begin preliminary work Thursday to replace a Route 75 bridge spanning the Norfolk Southern Railroad in Juniata County.
The project will start with demolition work on a two-story building located at 101 Second St. in Port Royal Borough.
HRI, Inc., the contractor will implement intermittent single-lane closures between First and Third streets while completing the demolition work. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during these closures. Starting Thursday, drivers should build extra time into their travel schedules to avoid delays if they pass through the work zone during one of these closures.
PennDOT anticipates work on the bridge beginning in early January and continuing through mid-July. The contractor will close the roadway and implement a detour while the bridge is demolished and replaced. PennDOT will issue an update on the project with details and mapping for the detour route before implementation of the closure. (Due to rain saturated soil, the project was delayed until the end of March 2023.)
PennDOT announced in the middle of August 2023 that the completion date for the project has been changed from Sept. 1 to Oct. 17. The change was caused because "saw cutting that was thought would take two weeks, took nearly eight weeks." (The TIMES of Port Royal, Aug 23, 2023) Since this article, the completion date has been moved to November.
The replacement structure is a 75-foot-long steel-plate girder bridge with an additional 26-foot-long reinforced-concrete slab span. The steel span is metalized for corrosion protection and long-term serviceability. Portions of the existing bridge foundations were maintained in the new construction. A seismic tomography investigation of the existing foundations was used to confirm the adequacy of the foundations for reuse.
(From the Sentinel Sep 13, 2022)
(Last paragraph from Erdman Anthony, Design Engineering Firm.)
PORT ROYAL — PennDOT will begin preliminary work Thursday to replace a Route 75 bridge spanning the Norfolk Southern Railroad in Juniata County.
The project will start with demolition work on a two-story building located at 101 Second St. in Port Royal Borough.
HRI, Inc., the contractor will implement intermittent single-lane closures between First and Third streets while completing the demolition work. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during these closures. Starting Thursday, drivers should build extra time into their travel schedules to avoid delays if they pass through the work zone during one of these closures.
PennDOT anticipates work on the bridge beginning in early January and continuing through mid-July. The contractor will close the roadway and implement a detour while the bridge is demolished and replaced. PennDOT will issue an update on the project with details and mapping for the detour route before implementation of the closure. (Due to rain saturated soil, the project was delayed until the end of March 2023.)
PennDOT announced in the middle of August 2023 that the completion date for the project has been changed from Sept. 1 to Oct. 17. The change was caused because "saw cutting that was thought would take two weeks, took nearly eight weeks." (The TIMES of Port Royal, Aug 23, 2023) Since this article, the completion date has been moved to November.
The replacement structure is a 75-foot-long steel-plate girder bridge with an additional 26-foot-long reinforced-concrete slab span. The steel span is metalized for corrosion protection and long-term serviceability. Portions of the existing bridge foundations were maintained in the new construction. A seismic tomography investigation of the existing foundations was used to confirm the adequacy of the foundations for reuse.
