Line Painting Planned Sunday Night on U.S. 1, Street Road in Bensalem

PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today that construction is scheduled on Sunday night, October 1, on U.S. 1 and Street Road (Route 132) in Bensalem Township under a project to reconstruct, widen, and improve U.S. 1 in Bucks County.

Motorists are advised of the following travel restrictions:

• Sunday, October 1, from 8:00 PM to 6:00 AM the following morning, alternating rolling lane closures are planned in both directions on U.S. 1 between Old Lincoln Highway and Rockhill Drive for line painting; and
• Sunday October 1, from 8:00 PM to 6:00 AM the following morning, alternating rolling lane closures are planned in both directions on Street Road (Route 132) between Kingston Way and Old Lincoln Highway for line painting.

Drivers are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the work areas. All scheduled activities are weather dependent and subject to change.

PennDOT is reconstructing and widening U.S. 1, improving the interchanges, and constructing new bridges from the Turnpike Interchange in Bensalem Township to north of the Penndel/Business U.S. 1 in Middletown Township under the $113.5 million Section RC2 contract.

For more information on PennDOT’s U.S. 1 reconstruction program in Bucks County, visit www.us1bucks.com.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles by visiting www.511PA.com. 511PA, which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay warnings, weather forecasts, traffic speed information and access to more than 1,000 traffic cameras.

For a complete list of construction projects impacting state-owned highways in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties, visit the District 6 Traffic Bulletin.