Portion Of Rt. 32 To Close For $3.9M Repair Project

Route 32 in Solebury Township will close this fall for more than six months as crews work on a $3.9 million roadway repair project.

The project will replace a 1,300-foot-long deteriorated retaining wall between Paxson Road and Laurel Road and rebuild the roadway in the area of the wall, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said.

The project is scheduled to be finished in June 2016.

PennDOT’s contractor will restore the structural stability the portion of the road by building a new retaining wall made to replace the existing wall, which has been severely damaged by several flooding storms.

Plus, crews will reconstruct and resurface 1,450 feet of the road. Drainage improvements, including the installation of 24 new storm inlets and more than 1,200 feet of storm sewers, will be made. Two existing drain pipes will be replaced and four storm water outlets will be constructed.

New curbs, guide rails and traffic signs are part of the project.

The posted detour will take cars over Route 263, Aquetong Road and Greenhill Road. Trucks will be detoured over U.S. 202 and Route 611, PennDOT said. Local access will be maintained up to the construction area on Route 32.

H & K Group, Inc.,of Skippack,is the general contractor on the $3,960,852 project. This transportation improvement project is financed with 100 percent state funds.