Route 1 Traffic Shift Begins Overnight Wednesday

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —PennDOT is planning a traffic shift at night starting on Wednesday for the Route 1 Traffic Improvements Project in Bensalem Township.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said that construction is planned at night this week on Route 1 in Bensalem Township under PennDOT’s $116 million project to reconstruct, widen, and improve a three-mile section of U.S. 1 in Bucks County.

Motorists are advised of the following travel restrictions:

• Wednesday, Nov. 13, and Thursday, Nov. 14, from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. the following morning, a single-lane closure will be in place in both directions on U.S. 1 between Rockhill Drive and Route 413 (Bellevue Avenue) for a traffic shift.

The work is part of PennDOT’s U.S. 1/RC2 contract that will reconstruct and widen U.S. 1 from south of the Rockhill Drive Interchange to north of the Penndel/Business U.S. 1 Interchange.

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

Motorists can check conditions on major roadways including color-coded winter conditions, 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. 511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional X alerts.

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.