PennDOT shares update on Bradford County bridge

TROY TOWNSHIP, BRADFORD COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — 28/22 News now knows how long repairs will take to fix the bridge on Route 6 in Bradford County that was struck by an oversized load .

PennDOT’s tentative plan is to have the bridge that runs over Sugar Creek in Troy Township reopened by late August.

PennDOT officials gathered on the Route 6 bridge in Troy Township Monday morning.

The bridge sustained damage from the truck crash on June 12, and it’s been closed ever since.

“This bridge carries around 4,000 vehicles a day, and a healthy percentage of those vehicles are truck traffic. And it’s not lost on me that Route 6 in northern Pennsylvania is an interstate equivalent as far as I’m concerned, and the importance of this road speaks for itself,” said PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll.

Carroll says it’s expected to cost between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, which PennDOT has allocated emergency funding to cover.

“The next steps are to start implementing the repairs, but before we do that, we have to do an inventory to check availability of the steel, the specialized steel that’s needed for this, and make sure we can get that on site,” said PennDOT District 3 Engineering Executive Eric High.

The 12-mile-long detour will remain in place throughout the construction, which High says will be advanced as quickly as possible.

“Our goal is to have this completed and reopened by the end of August, but that is highly variable at this point, we should have a better idea in the coming week on how quickly we’re going to be able to get the material and get the bridge reopened,” High continued.

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