Length: 3.4 miles
Location: Pickertown Road to Route 611, Warrington and Doylestown townships, Bucks County

Capacity:

• Two lanes, one in each direction
• 40 mph Speed Limit
• Left turn lanes at all intersections

Features:

• Five-foot wide paved bicycle lanes each direction
• Twelve-foot wide paved Shared Use Trail
• Trail Head access/parking at Bristol Road, New Britain Road
• Pedestrian signals with countdown timers at intersections
• 5,500-feet of landscaped earthen berms
• Landscaped shoulders and median
• 10 storm-water management facilities
• New traffic signal control equipment at intersections to collect traffic data and optimize signal timing to accommodate real time traffic demands
• Temporary emergency access road between Wells and New Britain roads
• Temporary traffic signals at
• Butler Avenue and Tamamend Road
• Lower State and New Britain roads
• Decorative finishes on barriers, culverts, walls and bridge surfaces
• Widening of Lower State and Bristol roads approaching the Parkway

Parkway Access

• Route 611 Interchange
• New signalized Parkway intersections at
• Bristol Road
• Lower State Road
• Modifications to Upper State Road/Bristol Road intersection

Structures

• Four span bridge over Neshaminy Creek
• New bridges over Almshouse Road, New Britain Road
• New Wells Road bridge over Parkway
• 19 storm-water management facilities and bio-retention areas
• 1,600 feet of retaining wall to minimize environmental impacts

Construction Information

• Bid Price: $42,175,769
• Contractor: James D. Morrissey, Inc., Philadelphia PA
• Start Work: January 2010
• Completion: Late 2011