Crews with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation are scheduled to pave Linfield Road on Friday as part of the ongoing culvert project, Limerick Township Manager Dan Kerr told the board of supervisors Tuesday.
Kerr said the paving work will bring additional road restrictions to Ferndale Lane for the day. PennDOT crews will pave into Ferndale Lane and complete the transitions between the two roads, closing the area to through traffic.
"There's going to be no through traffic," Kerr said. "Local traffic will be able to get through."
He added that the township has coordinated with the Spring-Ford Area School District to accommodate bus routes during the work.
Kerr said he expects Linfield Road to reopen fully by the end of October based on information provided to the township by PennDOT.
"They didn't give me a specific date,” he said. “If they're paving it, they're down to the final details."
The work is part of a PennDOT project to replace the bridge on Linfield Road between Lewis Road and Limerick Center Road. The Patch reported in April that the 112-year-old bridge, which carries Linfield Road over a tributary of the Schuylkill River, was listed in poor condition.
According to the Patch, PennDOT initially announced that the road would remain closed and detoured from May 11 through November 27 while the bridge was replaced. The new bridge was planned to be widened to about 30.5 feet, with two 11-foot travel lanes and shoulders, along with resurfacing of the bridge roadway and nearby approaches.
