The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation released plans online Friday for bridge replacement projects in Paradise Township, Strasburg Township and Christiana Borough.
The online listings, which will be viewable until March 1, offer a chance for public comment on the projects which are all slated to take place sometime during 2022. Construction work for each bridge is expected to last six months.
Strasburg Road Over Eshleman Run (Paradise Township): Replacement of the 90-year-old single span concrete slab bridge that carries Route 741 over Eshleman Run, about four miles east of Strasburg. A precast reinforced concrete box culvert will be installed and the bridge roadway will be widened. 90-day bridge closure expected. Detour via Route 896 and Belmont Road.
Route 33 wreck involving tractor-trailer, work truck clears - UPDATE
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
FINAL UPDATE: The crash was cleared and the highway fully open by 9:06 a.m., PennDOT said.
INITIAL UPDATED POST: Drivers heading north in the Lehigh Valley should expect delays Thursday morning after a crash on Route 33 in Plainfield Township, Pennsylvania State Police report.
A tractor-trailer and a work truck crashed at mile marker 16.3 in Plainfield Township, Trooper Nathan Branosky tweeted.
The wreck was reported as a rollover at 7:33 a.m. At 8:30, Branosky said the work truck had yet to be uprighted.
No one was hurt, Branosky said. There was a lot of debris that had to be cleaned up, he added.
Richard M. Kitchen, 96, Dallas, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, at The Meadows Nursing Center, Dallas.
Born in West Pittston, he was the son of the late William and Ida Goodridge Kitchen and was a graduate of West Pittston High School.
He was employed by The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as a surveyorâs assistant. Richard was a member of The Royal Amity Masonic Lodge #70. Daddow Isaacs American Legion Post 672, Dallas. He had served his country proudly in the Army in World War II as a private first class with the 740th Tank Battalion.
Richard was preceded in death by his wife, the former Ida Goodridge, in 2017; brother, William Kitchen; and a sister, June Kitchen.
HARRISBURG – In a 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
concurred with a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation appeal looking to reverse a decision from the Commonwealth Court – which had found an unmined coal estate adjacent to highway construction was illegally seized by state transport authorities through eminent domain.
The Commonwealth Court
decided in March 2019 that a
de facto taking of land on which the coal estate was located had occurred, when PennDOT undertook construction of Highway 219 in southern Somerset County in 2010, to the detriment of Penn Pocahontas Coal Co. and PBS Coals, Inc.
The Commonwealth Court ruled that options to determine right-of-way access to the coal estate in question’s surface, located on Parcel 55, were eliminated through the highway construction. Parcel 55, located in Brothersvalley, was owned by Penn Pocahontas and leased to PBS Coals.
NJ Transit leads nation in mechanical railway failures, but does much better on per-mile basis by Todd DeFeo, The Center Square | January 27, 2021 01:00 PM Print this article
NJ Transit commuter rail trains had more total mechanical failures than other agencies nationwide, but the system ranks in the middle of the pack when evaluating the number of breakdowns based on passenger car miles.
According to commuter rail data from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), NJ Transit saw 351 total mechanical failures in 2019 while operating more than 61.6 million passenger car miles.
A passenger car mile measures the number of miles rail passenger cars travel while in revenue service, including deadhead miles. In NJ Transit’s case, that equates to a breakdown every 175,535 miles.