Buckley & Company, Inc. has been hired by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to build a temporary roadway and permanent replacement bridge to help reopen Interstate 95 highway as soon as possible.
From ENR:
The replacement plan calls for crews to place about 7,200 cu yd of recycled glass aggregate backfill where the bridge was located in an 80-ft-wide center portion of the 150-ft-wide highway, a PennDOT spokesperson says. That will carry three lanes of traffic in each direction via a temporary road surface, but the Cottman Avenue exit from I-95 North—which the destroyed bridge had crossed—will remain closed longer. …
“We wanted the workforce to be readily available, the equipment to be readily available and the firm to have the expertise,” [Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Mike] Carroll said. “Buckley checked all those blocks.”
Ryan Boyer, head of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, said its members were committed to working around the clock to complete the project as quickly as possible.
