Work Resumes On Scudder Falls Bridge Project

LOWER MAKEFIELD TOWNSHIP, PA — For the first time in two months, Bucks County drivers will be seeing travel restrictions for work on the Scudder Falls Bridge replacement project.

Starting June 1, that will include a three-week closure of the Taylorsville Road ramps on I-295.

On the Pennsylvania side, work crews are expected to begin lifting steel beams into place on a new approach bridge that will one day carry I-295 traffic toward New Jersey across Taylorsville Road toward the Scudder Falls Bridge's downstream span.

That span across the river is currently under construction.

The Taylorsville Road ramps will close at 6 a.m. on June 1.

The two ramps are on the southwest side of the interchange. One is an entry ramp that carries traffic from Taylorsville Road southbound to I-295 EB/SB for travel across the Scudder Falls Bridge into New Jersey. The other is an exit ramp that carries traffic from I-295 EB to Taylorsville Road for travel toward either Yardley or New Hope.

Sporadic daytime traffic stoppages lasting up to 15 minutes also will be used on Taylorsville Road for this work.

Two detours will be implemented while the ramps are closed. Both detours will steer motorists to or from the Newtown-Yardley Road/PA Route 332 interchange (Exit 8) two miles to the west along I-295.

The detours will be in effect around the clock and are not expected to be lifted until June 19 at the earliest, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission said.

The closures will let work crews put drainage pipes and connections beneath and near the ramps, which border a newly built water basin. The ramps also will be realigned and repaved later in the project.