Posted on December 21, 2018 by Heather Adams

North Main Street is Open in Amity Township

from PennDOT

North Main Street is Open in Amity Township

Allentown, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Engineering District 5 announced today North Main Street is open in Amity Township, Berks County. North Main Street had been closed since August 8 to rehabilitate the bridge over Monocacy Creek.

During the bridge rehabilitation, North Main Street was closed and detoured between Monocacy Creek Road and Pennsylvania Avenue. The posted detour utilized Monocacy Creek Road, US 422, River Bridge Road, PA 724, PA 345 and Limekiln Road.

Work on this bridge included the rehabilitation of the masonry stone wall, drainage improvements and miscellaneous repairs.

This work was part of an ongoing Reading Area Transportation Study Bridge Preservation and Repair Project to rehabilitate or repair 15 structures in Berks County. J.D. Eckman, Inc. of Atglen, PA. is the general contractor on the $6,827,834 contract, with work on all 15 bridges expected to be complete by July 2019.

The North Main Bridge is a steel stringer bridge originally constructed in 1932. It is 61 feet long, and 23 feet wide. This section of North Main Street has an average daily traffic volume of 5,368 vehicles.

For more information on projects occurring or being bid this year, those made possible by or accelerated by the state transportation funding plan (Act 89), or those on the department’s Four and Twelve Year Plans, visit www.projects.penndot.gov.

Motorists can check 511PA before we they travel for the latest conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles, including color-coded winter conditions on 2,900 miles, by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information, and access to more than 860 traffic cameras.

511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and Android devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional twitter alerts accessible on the 511PA website.

Follow regional PennDOT information on Twitter at www.twitter.com/511PAAllentown, and like the department on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PennsylvaniaDepartmentofTransportation.

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