Route 1 Intelligent Transportation System Construction Starts

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said that Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) construction is planned this week on U.S. 1 in Bensalem and Middletown townships under PennDOT’s $116 million project to reconstruct, widen, and improve a three-mile section of U.S. 1 in Bucks County.

Drivers are advised of the following travel restriction:

• Monday, March 10, through Wednesday, March 13, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., lane closures will be in place on U.S. 1 in both directions between Rockhill Drive and Fairhill Avenue to allow crews to shift northbound U.S. 1 traffic onto the newly built lanes on the bridge over Neshaminy Creek.

Drivers are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the work area because backups and delays will occur. All scheduled activities are weather dependent.

The work is part of PennDOT’s U.S. 1/RC2 contract that will reconstruct and widen U.S. 1 from south of the Rockhill Drive Interchange to north of the Penndel/Business U.S. 1 Interchange.

For more information on this project and PennDOT’s U.S. 1 reconstruction program in Bucks County, visit www.us1bucks.com.

Motorists can check conditions on major roadways including color-coded winter conditions, by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information, and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras. 511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional X alerts.

For a complete list of construction projects impacting state-owned highways in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties, visit the District 6 Traffic Bulletin.