Randall Avenue Bridge Repairs Underway

BRISTOL TOWNSHIP, PA —Repairs on the closed Randall Avenue Bridge have finally begun.

Township officials said that work began on the bridge last weekend with demolition of the concrete starting.

Officials said concrete demolition went slower than expected due to steel wires running through and adjacent to the floor beams of the bridge under the concrete encasement.

The wires were unknown to us before the contractor began to remove the concrete and required extra time to complete the work they had to do around the steel wires.

The work is scheduled to resume this Friday and continue over the weekend.

The structure —closed since February 2023 —received a $2 million grant towards its repair and renovation, two Lower Bucks County lawmakers announced in late March.

The township conducted an "immediate shutdown" of the bridge on Feb. 23, 2023, citing safety reasons over falling concrete onto the Amtrak railway tracks.

Township officials said that the average daily traffic over the bridge was about 400 cars a day with a cost to replace the bridge upwards of $25 million.

The bridge, owned and maintained by Bristol Township, crosses the train tracks operated by Amtrak along its Northeast Corridor route.