Ramp, Roadway Construction On Route 1 in Lower Bucks This Week

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA — Ramp and roadway construction will continue this week on Route 1 under a project to reconstruct, widen and improve a three-mile section of the highway in Bensalem and Middletown townships, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said.

Motorists are advised of the following travel restrictions:

• From 8 p.m. Friday, April 14, to 6 a.m. Monday, April 17, the ramp from northbound Route 1 to Rockhill Drive at the Neshaminy Exit will be closed for construction. Motorists will be detoured north on Route to the Penndel/Business Route 1 Exit, left at the turnaround to Old Lincoln Highway, then south on Route 1 to Rockhill Drive at the Neshaminy Exit.
• From 8 p.m. Thursday, April 20, to 6 a.m. Friday, April 21, a single-lane pattern is scheduled on U.S. 1 in both directions between Old Lincoln Highway and the Neshaminy Exit for a traffic shift.

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

PennDOT is reconstructing and widening U.S. 1, improving the interchanges, and constructing new bridges from the Turnpike Interchange in Bensalem Township to north of the Penndel/Business U.S. 1 in Middletown Township under the $111 million RC2 contract.

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

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