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    Default 🔧🔩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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    Default Re: 🔧🔩Concerns over proposed bridge project

    Quote Originally Posted by GOYABEAN View Post
    �� If the project goes forward as planned, it could be months of long detours for residents.
    I guess they could just let the bridge collapse...potentially with traffic on it. I wonder how convenient that would be for residents.

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    Default 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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    Default 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...
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    Default Re: 🔧🔩Concerns over proposed bridge project

    Quote Originally Posted by Jhaydeno View Post
    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...
    Well, for one thing, right of way issues.

    It's also possible that the geology 50' away isn't suitable for the bridge, which is why it wasn't put there in the first place.

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    Default Re: 🔧🔩Concerns over proposed bridge project

    Quote Originally Posted by free View Post
    Well, for one thing, right of way issues.

    It's also possible that the geology 50' away isn't suitable for the bridge, which is why it wasn't put there in the first place.
    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.
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    Default Re: 🔧🔩Concerns over proposed bridge project

    Quote Originally Posted by Jhaydeno View Post
    Eminent domain, one home gone... no biggie.
    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...
    See my previous comment.

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