Community Corner
New Falls Road Repaving Project Postponed
Last part of the resurfacing delayed due to additional nearby construction work and to avoid "additional traffic woes."
A PennDOT official says additional construction work in Levittown will be delayed to avoid "additional traffic woes."
Repaving work on New Falls Road in Levittown was postponed due to concerns over traffic congestion, PennDOT Community Relations Coordinator Charles Metzger said last Thursday.
The resurfacing project started Sept. 12, and encompassed the majority breadth of New Falls Road in Levittown, starting at the Route 413 intersection.
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According to Metzger, work on New Falls stopped around Sept. 26 after completion of the road's base repairs.
"(PennDOT) wants to wait for the other local projects to finish up before we added anymore traffic woes to area," Metzger said.
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The other projects Metzger references are the Bristol-Oxford Valley Road Bridge repair -- due to be completed in late October; and the Route 413 construction and expansion projected, which is expected to be completed by mid-July of 2012.
Base repairs on New Falls Road left a long stretch of the road covered with slightly raised asphalt bumps from Route 413 to Bristol-Oxford Valley Road. PennDOT is expected to start profiling the road again in the next couple weeks.
The rest of the roadwork, which involves both milling and repaving, is set to be completed in early Spring of 2012. Philadelphia-based construction company James D. Morrissey Inc. has been contracted for the roadwork.
The New Falls Road resurfacing project is part of a $8.8 million PennDOT contract to restore 31 highways in Bucks County.
