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🔧🔩Concerns over proposed bridge project
🤔 If the project goes forward as planned, it could be months of long detours for residents.
BEAR CREEK TOWNSHIP, PA — Built in 1957, the Laurel Run Road Bridge stretches over the Pennsylvania Turnpike near the Wilkes-Barre exit.
In November, the Turnpike Commission plans to bid out the bridge for a full reconstruction.
Work would then start in March and take about seven months to complete.
Bear Creek Township supervisor Mark Petlock says the project involves Turnpike Commission raising the bridge and also making it wider.
https://www.wnep.com/article/news/lo...2-a0a6472a8c71
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September 15th, 2022, 08:16 AM #2
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September 15th, 2022, 11:13 AM #3
Re: 🔧🔩Concerns over proposed bridge project
Last time I heard it was going to take 7 months to replace a bridge, it was actually 19 months and that was on a road that they could close completely the entire time.
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September 15th, 2022, 11:24 AM #4
Re: 🔧🔩Concerns over proposed bridge project
Why's it so difficult to build a parallel bridge 50 feet away, realign the road, then close and demolish the first when completed? Oh that's right, because PennDot is involved...
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
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September 15th, 2022, 11:27 AM #5
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September 15th, 2022, 12:08 PM #6
Re: 🔧🔩Concerns over proposed bridge project
Eminent domain, one home gone... no biggie. It was next to the turnpike, how much do you really think the residents liked living next to an ever-increasing amount of traffic & noise?
I've often said PA doesn't do an adequate job clearing properties during roadway expansions. They will push curbs within feet of a front door instead of buying the property and knocking it down Not only does this ruin property values, it's dangerous for residents and it leaves no room for future expansion.Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
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September 15th, 2022, 12:29 PM #7
Re: 🔧🔩Concerns over proposed bridge project
Sure. But that process can drag on for years and years and years. A simple case can take 18 months simply because the court's docket is full. So, you can engage in that process - and maybe done day get your new bridge built - or you can just get on with your 7 month project and rebuild the existing bridge starting tomorrow.
They will push curbs within feet of a front door instead of buying the property and knocking it down...
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