King of Prussia, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today that construction has been completed on the $7.9 million project to rehabilitate, widen, and improve the historic stone arch bridge that carries Elm Street and Markley Street (U.S. 202 South) over Stony Creek in Norristown, Montgomery County.
Work on this bridge project started in early 2024 and included repairs to the underside “arch barrels” that support the bridge, plus reconstruction, widening and repaving of Markley Street (U.S. 202 South) and Elm Street at the intersection. Improvements also included installing new guiderail, signage, ADA curb ramps, new adaptive traffic signals, and new sanitary sewer and water mains through the intersection.
Rehabilitation of the 147-year-old structure was conducted in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties and the PennDOT Stone Arch Bridge Maintenance Manual.
With the completion of this bridge project, PennDOT wraps up more than a decade of construction to rebuild, widen, and improve three miles of the Markley Street/U.S. 202 South corridor (Section 500) through Norristown, from Main Street at the foot of the Dannehower Bridge to Johnson Highway at the border with East Norriton Township.
Work on the corridor began in 2013 with widening and reconstruction between Elm Street and Johnson Highway (Section 520), ending in fall 2015. In 2019, the second of four contracts (Section 510) began, improving the corridor and intersecting streets between Main Street and Elm Street. The third section of the corridor, Section 530, extended Barbadoes Street from Lafayette Street to Washington Street to improve traffic flow by providing an alternate route through the busy intersection of Markley Street and Main Street, finishing in 2022.
This Section 511 project to rehabilitate the Elm Street/Markley Street arch bridge was financed with 80 percent federal and 20 percent state funds.
For more information, visit www.us202-markleystreet.com.
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