Sinkhole Fix, Route 295 Bridge Work In Levittown

LEVITTOWN, PA —PennDOT crews will be out this week, starting Monday in Croydon where emergency repairs will be made on a sinkhole, while also continuing Route 295 bridge work.

On Friday, Bristol Township posted on its Facebook page that a sinkhole led to the emergency closure of Cedar Avenue between Sycamore and Pennsylvania Avenues.

Bristol Township fire police and public works crews were out monitoring the sinkhole.

Meanwhile, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said that bridge repairs will continue this week on Interstate 295 under a $44.6 million bridge improvement project to perform high-priority repairs on several structures on interstates in Philadelphia, Delaware, and Bucks counties.

Motorists are advised of the following travel restrictions:

Drivers are advised to allow extra time when traveling through the work areas because backups and delays will occur. All scheduled activities are weather dependent.

Repairs to the structures under this project include replacing rocker bearings, frozen sliding plate bearings, and deck expansion joints; cleaning and painting steel beams; repairing substructure concrete; and reconstructing bearing pedestals.

Driscoll Construction Company, Inc. of Philadelphia is the general contractor on the project, which is financed with 100 percent federal funds.

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.

Information about infrastructure in District 6, including completed work and significant projects, is available at www.penndot.pa.gov/D6Results. Find PennDOT's planned and active construction projects at www.projects.penndot.gov.