Clearfield, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced that highway resurfacing work on Route 53 between Route 322 in Philipsburg and Route 2035 (Maple Street) near Kylertown starts tomorrow. This work is part of a larger contract to improve the ride quality and extend the service life of approximately 31 miles across eight routes in Cameron, Clearfield, and Elk counties.
Crews will begin surface preparation tomorrow near the West Branch Area School. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during daylight hours. The school district has been notified and has coordinated with its bus drivers.
PennDOT urges drivers to anticipate delays, exercise caution in work zones, obey flaggers and other posted work zone signage, and always buckle up.
The contractor expects surface preparation and paving operations through this work zone to take approximately six weeks. All schedules are subject to change due to weather or other unforeseen circumstances.
Overall work on this project includes milling and paving operations, pavement marking, and miscellaneous construction. Glenn O. Hawbaker Inc., of State College, PA, is the contractor on this $5.2 million project. PennDOT anticipates work on all roads to be complete by mid-November.
Motorists can check conditions on major roadways 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.
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