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    PennDOT Completes Lurgan Road Bridge Replacement Project in Upper Makefield Township

    11/14/2024

    King of Prussia, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today that construction has been completed on a project to replace the Lurgan Road bridge over Branch of Pidcock Creek in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County.

    Under this project, PennDOT's contractor replaced the 114-year-old bridge with a concrete box culvert. The structure carries an average of 971 vehicles per day. 

    Lurgan Road bridge is one of seven structures in Bucks and Montgomery counties that PennDOT is rehabilitating or replacing under a $7,987,000 project. 

    To date, Ashbourne Road bridge over Branch of Tookany Creek in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, has also been completed.

    The other structures scheduled for culvert replacements include the following:

    Loftus Construction, Inc. of Cinnaminson, New Jersey, is the general contractor on the project, which is financed with 100 percent state funds.

    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.

    Subscribe to PennDOT news and traffic alerts in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties at www.penndot.pa.gov/District6.

    Information about infrastructure in District 6, including completed work and significant projects, is available at www.penndot.pa.gov/D6Results. Find PennDOT's planned and active construction projects at www.projects.penndot.gov.

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    MEDIA CONTACT: Robyn Briggs, robbriggs@pa.gov

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