Lane Closures For Route 1 Ramp, Bridge Construction

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —The Route 1 improvement project continues this week with PennDOT changing traffic patterns to open a new northbound ramp and performing other construction on Old Lincoln Highway and Rockhill Drive in Bensalem and Middletown townships.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said that roadway paving and traffic realignment are scheduled through Friday on Old Lincoln Highway and Rockhill Drive under a project to reconstruct, widen and improve Route 1 in Bensalem and Middletown townships.

Motorists are advised of the following travel restrictions:

• Monday, June 19, from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. the following morning, northbound U.S.1 will be reduced to a single lane between the Street Road and Penndel/Business U.S.1 interchanges for a traffic pattern change to accommodate the opening of a new ramp to replace the existing on-ramp to northbound U.S.1 at the Neshaminy Interchange.
• Monday, June 19, through Thursday, June 22, from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. the following morning, Rockhill Drive will be reduced to one lane in each direction between Horizon Boulevard and Neshaminy Boulevard for overhead bridge construction.

Drivers are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the work areas. All scheduled activities are weather dependent and subject to change.

PennDOT is reconstructing and widening U.S. 1, improving the interchanges, and constructing new bridges from the Turnpike Interchange in Bensalem Township to the north of the Penndel/Business Route 1 in Middletown Township under the $113.5 million Section RC2 contract.

For more information on PennDOT’s U.S. 1 reconstruction program in Bucks County, visit www.us1bucks.com.

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.