Bridge Repairs Planned Next Week on I-95 Girard Point Bridge in Philadelphia

King of Prussia, PA - The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today that regional bridge repairs will continue next week on the Interstate 95 Girard Point Bridge in Philadelphia under a $44.6 million bridge improvement project to perform high-priority repairs on several structures on interstates in Philadelphia, Delaware and Bucks counties.

Motorists are advised of the following travel restrictions:

• Monday, September 11, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, lane closures are scheduled on the northbound deck on the I-95 Girard Point Bridge between Penrose Avenue (Route 291) and Broad Street (Route 611) for bridge inspection; and
• Tuesday, September 12, Wednesday, September 13, and Friday, September 15, from 7:30 PM to 5:00 AM the following morning, lane closures are scheduled on the northbound or southbound decks on the I-95 Girard Point Bridge between Penrose Avenue (Route 291) and Broad Street (Route 611) to allow crews to setup or remove long-term shoulder closures for bridge repair.
  

Drivers are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the work areas because backups and delays will occur. All scheduled activities are weather dependent.

Repairs to the structures under this project include replacing rocker bearings, frozen sliding plate bearings and deck expansion joints; cleaning and painting steel beams; repairing substructure concrete; and reconstructing bearing pedestals.

The project also includes the replacement of high mast light poles along the I-95 corridor in Philadelphia and Delaware counties.

Driscoll Construction Company, Inc. of Philadelphia is the general contractor on the project, which is financed with 100 percent federal funds.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.

For a complete list of construction projects impacting state-owned highways in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, visit the District 6 Traffic Bulletin.

Information about infrastructure in District 6, including completed work and significant projects, is available at www.penndot.pa.gov/D6Results. Find PennDOT's planned and active construction projects at www.projects.penndot.gov.

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Contact: Brad Rudolph, [email protected]

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