Phoenixville's Route 113 Resurfaced As Part of $55 Million, 200-Mile Initiative

Twelve Chester County highways were part of PennDOT's nearly 200-mile road resurfacing initiative in 2016, including Route 23, the agency announced Thursday. PennDOT said the initiative began to repair deteriorated pavements and provide drivers with smoother roads.

Roads and highways in Bucks, Delaware, Montgomery, Chester, and Philadelphia counties were lumped into the project, which totaled 194 miles, PennDOT said.

“PennDOT crews and contractors deserve a tremendous amount of credit for the amount of highway miles they sealed and repaired over the last year to provide drivers with more reliable and safer riding surfaces,” PennDOT District Executive Kenneth M. McClain said in a statement.

The projects were primarily executed under 25 state paving contracts totaling $55 million, with 12 of the resurfacing contracts being financed with state funds from Act 89, PennDOT said.

PennDOT maintenance crews also performed crack sealing on 1,150 miles of state highways in the Philadelphia region in 2016 to improve efficiency and reduce traffic impacts for motorists.

“Crack sealing is one of our top maintenance strategies to prevent premature deterioration of the roadway and extend the life of asphalt surfaces by restricting water penetration into underlying base and sub-base layers,” McClain said.

In addition, PennDOT crews and private contractors placed 35,114 tons of asphalt patching material on state highways in the region to repair pavements that absorbed structural damage last winter.

PennDOT's resurfacing took care of these 12 roads and highways in Chester County:

• U.S. 1 (Baltimore Pike) in Kennett and East Marlborough townships;
• U.S. 1 in East Nottingham, Lower Oxford and Upper Oxford townships, and Oxford Borough;
• Route 10 in West Fallowfield, Highland and Sadsbury townships and Parkesburg Borough;
• Route 10 in Lower Oxford Township;
• Route 113 (Black Rock Road) in Phoenixville Borough and Schuylkill Township;
• Route 340 (Old Philadelphia Pike) in West Caln Township;
• Route 472 (Lancaster Avenue) in Lower Oxford Township;
• Route 724 (Schuylkill Road) in North Coventry Township;
• Conestoga Road in West Nantmeal Township;
• Waterloo Avenue in Easttown Township;
• Newark Road in New Garden Township; and
• Diamond Rock Road in Tredyffrin Township.

In addition to resurfacing projects, PennDOT completed major construction on a highway improvement project in 2016 as well:

• $63 million project to reconstruct and widen 2.5 miles of U.S. 202 to six lanes between the Route 401 and U.S. 30 interchanges in East Whiteland Township, Chester County, which completed the expansion of 6.5 miles of U.S. 202 to six lanes in East Whiteland and Tredyffrin townships.

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