Route 295 Roadwork Postponed For Friday Over Scudder Falls Bridge

Update - 1:30 p.m.

YARDLEY, PA —The planned Friday-Saturday closure of two Route 295 northbound lanes on the New Jersey approach to the Scudder Falls Toll Bridge is being postponed.

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission announced Tuesday that the road work will be rescheduled, but that a time is undetermined at this time.

The agency said the work had to be postponed because recent rains thwarted the participation of a key sub-contractor.

Motorists who use northbound Route 295 heading into Pennsylvania across the Scudder Falls Toll Bridge would have faced possible two-mile delays and up to an hour wait due to the lane closures Friday.

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission had announced that motorists should find an alternate route to use, like the Trenton-Morrisville (Route 1) Toll Bridge, especially between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Friday when the highway will be reduced to one lane.

The commission said the "severe traffic warning" is issued for "traffic queuing of two miles or more is likely with corresponding travel delays of an hour or more."

Northbound Route 295 heading into Pennsylvania would have been reduced to one lane instead of three lanes) after the CR-579/Bear Tavern Road interchange (Exit 75) in Ewing for an uninterrupted “high-intensity construction cycle” (HICC) starting around 10 a.m. Friday and ending by sometime Saturday night, the commission said.

The around-the-clock single-lane travel pattern on I-295 NB was needed so work crews can address a road-surface bump on an approach bridge that crosses over NJ Route 175, the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and the NJ Route 29 northbound bypass lane on the New Jersey side of the Scudder Falls Toll Bridge.

The bump is in the two right lanes of northbound Route 295, accounting for the upcoming two-lane closure. Motorists complained to the Bridge Commission about the bump for several months.