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New Falls Road Bridge Closed Through August 2021

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Tom Sofield
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A section of New Falls Road that crosses the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bristol Township has closed.

The signs were placed Tuesday morning between Hillside Avenue and Zimmerman Lane and will remain in place through August 2021, according to the the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

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Detour signs are in place and temporary stop signs have been added along New Falls Road. A temporary traffic signal has been placed at Zimmerman Lane and Newportville Road on the Bristol Township and Middletown Township border.

Car detour:

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Truck detour:

The temporary traffic signals before they were switched on in April.
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The work will involve removing the existing single-span steel girder bridge and replacing it with a two-span steel girder bridge, providing more room for a potential widening on the Turnpike in the future.

Nebraska Street and Martins Lane, which sit near the bridge, will be adjusted to make more space for the Turnpike.

The work is part of the multi-phase Turnpike-I-95 connector project that celebrated the two highways being linked in 2018.

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Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 16 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom’s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.