Bridge Work On North Gulph Road Begins

TREDYFFRIN, PA —Overhead bridge work started Monday on North Gulph Road in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, and Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County, under the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's $117 million project to widen and improve the Turnpike and its bridges between milepost 324 and 326.

Sound panel installation continues throughout the entire project and will be completed within the next few months.

Motorists are advised of the following travel restrictions:

• From 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 6, through Friday, Nov.10, a single-lane closure will be in place for both directions on N. Gulph Road between 1st Avenue and U.S. 202.

The closures will allow the contractor to install shielding beneath the new bridge carrying the Turnpike over Route 422 and North Gulph Road to construct the center portion of the bridge.
Motorists are asked to prepare for slow or stopped traffic approaching this area.

Paving will continue through the end of the year. Eastbound and westbound traffic will then shift onto the new pavement while the existing four lanes and median are reconstructed.

Retaining wall construction on the westbound side of the Turnpike between Glenhardie Road and U.S. 422 has been completed. On the eastbound side, retaining wall construction has been completed east of Glenhardie Road.

Blasting operations have finished and excavation for the large sediment basins adjacent to the Valley Forge Service Plaza at the western end of the project is set to finish later this fall.

Scaled back

The project was initially planned as 6 miles.

It has since been divided into two projects. From East Whiteland Township (Milepost 320) to Upper Merion Township (Milepost 324). The second project will not begin until the first project is complete.