The portion of PA Route 32/River Road that crosses below the Scudder Falls Toll Bridge is cheduled to closed and detoured 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through January 2021 (starting 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 4). The travel restrictions are allowing for the delivery, lifting and installation of steel girders for the Scudder Falls Toll Bridge second span (downstream). The detour is via North Main Street (Yardley)/Taylorsville Road (Lower Makefield), connecting at East Afton Avenue (PA Route 332) in Yardley and Woodside Road in Lower Makefield. Red line on map denoted unpassable section of Route 32/River Road. Green line denotes detour.
The NJ Route 29 SB bypass lane at the I-295/Route 29 interchange (Exit 76) is closed with traffic shifted through the two roundabouts and connector lanes toward Trenton.
This closure will allow for Stage 2 construction activities -- erection of a second bridge span and I-295 approach widening -- in 2020 and 2021.
Revised January 2020: This ramp is expected to remain closed until spring 2021. Use the southern roundabout at the nearby I-295/Route 29 interchange to access the on-ramp to I-295 SB.
The Delaware Canal towpath segment on the Pennsylvania side of the Scudder Falls (I-295) Toll Bridge may be closed sporadically between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays through January 2021.
Intermittent weekday closures of the Delaware & Raritan Canal towpath on the New Jersey side of the Scudder Falls Toll Bridge are possible 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays through January 2021.
Closures -- when needed -- would allow for various construction activities in the vicinity of the old Scudder Falls Bridge related to the installation of connector path and ramp to the shared-use bike-ped facility on the upstream span of the new Scudder Falls (I-295) Toll Bridge.
Towpath closures are not anticipated to occur on weekends.
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