ADA Curb Ramp Installations Planned For Lower Bucks

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —ADA Curb Ramp installation will begin early next month in Bensalem Township and Levittown, PennDOT has announced.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said motorists should expect periodic lane closures starting Monday, March 6, through early May.

The work will be done from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. as part of a project to install ADA curb ramps at more than 140 intersections in Bucks and Montgomery counties.

The work locations are:

• Radcliff Street at the Dorrance Street Intersection in Bristol Borough;
• Radcliff Street between Jefferson Avenue and Lincoln Avenue in Bristol Borough;
• Radcliff Street at the Market Street Intersection, Bristol Borough;
• State Road at the Street Road Intersection in Bensalem Township;
• Brown Avenue at the Route 513 (Hulmeville Road) Intersection in Bensalem Township;
• Brown Avenue at the Par Avenue Intersection in Bensalem Township;
• Dunks Ferry Road at the Knights Road Intersection in Bensalem Township;
• Dunks Ferry Road at the Mechanicsville Road Intersection in Bensalem Township;
• Route 513 (Hulmeville Road) at the Route 513 (Bellevue Avenue) Intersection in Hulmeville Borough;
• Business U.S. 1 (Lincoln Highway) and the Durham Road Intersection in Penndel Borough;
• Business U.S. 1 (Lincoln Highway) and the Glen Avenue Intersection in Penndel Borough; and
• Business U.S. 1 (Lincoln Highway) between the Highland Park Way loops in Middletown Township.

Motorists are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the work area because backups may occur. The schedule is weather dependent.

Heim Construction Company, Inc. of Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, is the general contractor on the $5,217,601 project which is financed with 100 percent federal funds.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles, including color-coded winter conditions on 2,900 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.