PennDOT Project To Affect Tredyffrin-Easttown Area Roads Next Week

PennDOT is advising motorists in the Tredyffrin-Easttown area to allow additional time for travel on U.S. Route 422 next week as road work will restrict travel lines during the daytime.

PennDOT said U.S. 422 in Upper Merion and West Norriton townships will have daily travel restrictions beginning Monday, Oct. 24. The restrictions will be in effect daily from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., PennDOT said.

The far right lane on U.S. 422 west will be closed between Valley Forge Road/state Route 23 and Trooper Road/state Route 363 for the delivery and setting of concrete bridge beams and sign structure work on the new bridge being built over South Trooper Road, PennDOT said.

Also on Monday, Oct. 24, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., U.S. 422’s eastbound right lane will be closed between the Valley Forge Road/Route 23 and U.S. Route 202 interchanges for the construction of a foundation for a future sign structure, PennDOT said.

From Tuesday, Oct. 25 to Thursday, Oct. 27, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., U.S. 422’s westbound right lane will be closed between Valley Forge Road/Route 23 and U.S. Route 202 for the construction of a foundation for a future sign structure, PennDOT said.

The work is part of PennDOT’s $97.4 million project to build new, wider structures to improve travel on U.S. 422 at its crossings over the Schuylkill River, Norfolk Southern Railroad, South Trooper Road and the Schuylkill River Trail, PennDOT said. The project also includes improving U.S. 422 between the Route 23 (Valley Forge Road) and Route 363 (Trooper Road) interchanges; upgrading Route 23 (Valley Forge Road) at its interchange with U.S. 422; and improving ramps at the Route 363 (Trooper Road), Route 23 (Valley Forge Road) and First Avenue interchanges, PennDOT said.

PennDOT began construction on this transportation improvement project in February 2016 and the project is scheduled to finish in May 2020, PennDOT said. Without the passage of Act 89, Pennsylvania’s transportation plan, construction on this project would not have begun before 2018, PennDOT said.

J.D. Eckman, Inc. of Atglen, Chester County, is the general contractor, which is financed with 80 percent federal and 20 percent state funds, PennDOT said.

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