The rehab project for the Easton-Phillipsburg free bridge will mean closing a travel lane and a walkway on the bridge over the Delaware River starting next week.
On Wednesday morning (March 16), the bridge’s upstream lane and adjoining walkway will be shut down, leaving one travel lane in each direction and one walkway open, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission said.
The closures are expected to last into early July.
Easton-bound drivers will also likely face periodic delays during peak travel times due to the temporary elimination of the dedicated left-turn lane on the bridge’s Pennsylvania side.
The COVID-19 pandemic delayed the rehab project on the 125-year-old bridge.
Construction is expected to run into 2023, and includes new paint, repairing steel eye-bars at the bridge’s center that were reconstructed after the 1955 river flood, and replacing the two deteriorating fiberglass walkways.
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