Frenchtown Uhlerstown Walkway is open & two way travel across bridge is set 10/24

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Uhlerstown-Frenchtown Bridge’s Newly Widened Walkway is Open.

FRENCHTOWN, NJ – The installation of a newly widened walkway on the Uhlerstown-Frenchtown Toll-Supported Bridge.

The bridge’s new walkway facility will consist of widened system of slip-resistant foam-core fiber-reinforced-polymer (FRP) panels and new anodized aluminum hand railings. The new walking surface will be 5-feet wide, 1-foot-3-inches wider than the old walkway. This additional width is expected to help pedestrians walking in opposite directions to pass each other on the walkway. It also should ease passage of cyclists walking their bicycles across the walkway – a Commission requirement.

The installation of a new walkway system is just one aspect of a wide-ranging rehabilitation project that has been underway at the 93-year-old bridge since earlier this year. Project work activities passed the halfway point in June. To carry out the project, the bridge’s vehicular roadway deck has been restricted to a single lane of New Jersey-bound traffic since Feb. 20, with Pennsylvania-bound traffic detoured upstream to the nearby Upper Black Eddy-Milford Toll-Supported Bridge. If weather cooperates and project work continues as scheduled, the bridge should be in position to reopen to two-traffic in the early fall.

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