PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Detours are now in place and will remain for about five weeks as work is completed on the Scudder Falls bridge connecting Bucks County to New Jersey.
The next stage in the years-long project will close four entrance and exit ramps on I-295 for the next five weeks.
Delaware River Joint Toll Commission spokesman Joe Donnelly explains one exit ramp and three exit ramps will close: "An entrance ramp and two exit ramps at Taylorsville Road in Lower Makefield Township, Pa., are gonna close. And the exit ramp immediately after the Scudder Falls Bridge entering into New Jersey that leads to Route 29, that also will close."
Donnelly said there are detours posted, and drivers who frequently use those exits should familiarize themselves with the new traffic patterns and give themselves more time to get where they are going.
Drivers who use the Taylorsville Road exit will have to take the 322 interchange instead. In New Jersey, the ramp to get on Route 29 will be detoured to Scotch Road.
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The ramps are being reconstructed. When completed, they will funnel drivers to the new bridge span, carrying I-295 over the Delaware River. Donnelly said it will be a noticeable benefit for drivers.
"There will be a lot easier flow, and mergers and accelerating and decelerating at those interchanges at the immediate ends of the bridge is going to be a much safer geometry in that bridge corridor," he said.
The portion of the project that's most disruptive to traffic is expected to finish in August. The bridge should be mostly finished by December, with some lingering punch-list items to be completed in the spring of next year.