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PennDOT to Close Parts of Blue Route for Night Project

The more than $300,000 project will install reflective markers along I-476.

The Pennsylvania Department Of Transportation (PennDOT) announced Friday that starting on April 11 there will be a nighttime project to install new reflective markers along Interstate-476.

PennDOT Safety Press Officer Jenny Robinson told Patch that the reflective markers will replace previously installed ones along I-476 during a night project from April 11 to April 15, from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m.

"The Blue Route is very important and it’s important to improve the visibility," she said for drivers who travel at night or during bad weather.

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She said that low-cost safety improvement federal funds are being used to pay for the $327,308 project and that Concert Coring Company in Herman, Pa., is the contractor.

According to a press release Robinson provided, work crews will work on one lane at a time on I-476 as they cut notches into the pavement along center and edge lines and ramps so the lens can be fitted. The project is described as a slow-moving operation in the press release.

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The markers are reflective lenses that have a protective metal casting and each one will be a quarter inch above the road surface.

The press release also stated that one lane will be closed in each direction of the Blue Route between I-76 and I-95 for the following areas:

Delaware County townships:

  • Marple
  • Haverford
  • Radnor
  • Nether Providence
  • Ridley

Montgomery County township:

  • Lower Merion

The project will end in late May, said Robinson, and it will also include the following locations that are planned to receive new reflective markers:

  • Delaware County: I-476, I-95, Route 252 and connecting ramps to St. Davids Road, Bryn Mawr Avenue, Goshen Road;
  • Montgomery County: Route 29, Route 202;
  • Philadelphia: I-95 from Exit 19 (Packer Avenue) to Exit 23 (Girard Avenue); and on I-95 off-ramps to I-676 and to Columbus Boulevard.
  • Chester County: Routes 23, 322, 340, 926, Business Route 30, Boot Road, Goshen Road, Gulph Road, Ship Road, Strasburg Road, Swedesford Road; and
  • Bucks County: Route 202


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