Lafayette Street Project Leads To Closing Of Conshohocken Road

NORRISTOWN, PA -- The Lafayette Street Extension Project will shut down Conshohocken Road as construction progresses, beginning April 25, Norristown municipality announced on its website.

The project began implementing Stage 2A of its traffic control plan in December.

The contractor will realign Diamond Avenue with Conshohocken Road during the construction.

The closure will require a detour along Ridge Pike to Fayette Street in Conshohocken and will last about three months, into the mid to late summer of 2016.

This detour marks another milestone in the on-going, multi-phase, $100 million project which the borough says will eventually:

• link Conshohocken Road directly to Lafayette Street and create a direct route into downtown Norristown
• widen and improve Ridge Pike
• rebuild and widen existing Lafayette Street in Norristown
• create a turnpike interchange that will feed directly into Conshohocken Road and Lafayette Street

Construction continues along Ridge Pike, Diamond Avenue, and Fairfield Avenue in Plymouth Township. The expected completion date continues to be in early 2017.

The final phase will be to reconstruct and widen Lafayette Street itself.