Four entrances and exits between I-295 and the Scudder Falls bridge, including one in New Jersey, will be closed for five weeks starting July 12 for construction work, officials announced Friday.
The closings are for the next major phase of construction on the second Scudder Falls bridge before the “downstream” span is scheduled to be completed. The interchange ramps are scheduled to be closed early Monday morning, including the I-295 southbound Exit 76 ramp to Route 29, which is the first exit in New Jersey.
The Delaware River Joint Bridge Toll Commission, which owns and operates the bridge and is conducting the replacement project, is scheduled to close and detour the I-295 southbound Exit 76 ramp to Route 29. That exit is located immediately after crossing the Scudder Falls Bridge into New Jersey. Traffic will be detoured for approximately five weeks, commission officials said.
The four ramp closings and detours will allow construction crews to reconstruct and repave the ramps prior to being connected to a new permanent alignment with I-295 East in Pennsylvania and I-295 South in New Jersey. When completed, the newly-aligned ramps will feed traffic to and from the second Scudder Falls Bridge span that is nearing completion on the downstream side of the first bridge, which opened to traffic in July 2019.
The Route 29 exit is scheduled to reopen on August 16.
Drivers will be directed to Exit 73 A, the Scotch Road interchange where they can use the loop ramps to cross over I-295, make a U-turn and return on I-295 North to use the Route 29 exit ramp. A map of the detour can be found on the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission website.
When completed, the bridge’s upstream span will carry only Pennsylvania-bound I-295 traffic, with three through lanes and one auxiliary lane to handle accelerating and decelerating traffic between interchanges at Route 29 in New Jersey and Taylorsville Road in Pennsylvania. The downstream span will carry only New Jersey-bound I-295 traffic.
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Larry Higgs may be reached at lhiggs@njadvancemedia.com.
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