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Length: 3.4 miles
Location: Pickertown Road to Route 611, Warrington and Doylestown townships, Bucks County
Capacity:
- Two lanes, one in each direction
- 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
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