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Bridge Work Continues to Cause Headaches

Bridge Work Continues to Cause Headaches - Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 8:47PM EST

Reported by: Eric Deabill
Tuesday, Nov 13, 2007 @08:47pm EST
SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY- The project to fix the worst state-owned bridge in Lackawanna County is still on-going.

PennDOT officials now hope to have emergency repairs finished to the Harrison Avenue bridge in Scranton by early December.

But for some of the 17,000 drivers who use the bridge every day, the project can't be finished soon enough.

Scranton Resident Bria Moody said, "Sometimes you dread going out, because you have to go down Mulberry and over to Jefferson instead of cutting straight over to Harrison and its a big inconvenience when you have children and you don't want to cart them out of the house."

Karen Dussinger, PennDOT Spokeswoman, said, "Right now, its costing us $300,000 to $400,000 to do a temporary fix of the Harrison Avenue bridge. That's because there's some emergency arch work and deterioration of the deck that had to be done before the big rehabilitation begins in another four years."

When that work begins in 2011, the project will cost a total of $9-million.

Until that time, PennDOT officials and contracting crews are urging patience.

The 72-year-old bridge scored a two out of 100 on the last sufficiency rating. That means it's "structurally deficient."

Dussinger said, "This is a main artery into the city. We all realize that, but this is an emergency fix. We had to do it. It was something important that we had to do right away."

The Harrison Avenue Bridge was built in the early 1920's. It's the major artery into and out of Scranton's Hill section.
 


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