More than a dozen Bristol Township homes could be demolished to make way for a new Delaware River Bridge as the Pennsylvania Turnpike pushes forward with one of its most ambitious infrastructure projects in decades, writes JD Mullane for Bucks County Courier Times.
Turnpike officials confirmed this week that roughly 13 residences stand in the path of the proposed corridor, a replacement for the aging span that has carried Interstate 95 traffic between Bucks County and New Jersey since 1956.
The new bridge would rise north of the existing structure, threading through the Edgely neighborhood and along Hammond Avenue, where retention basins are also planned.
For now, no addresses have been named. The project is still in its environmental review phase, and officials were careful to temper resident concerns.
“We will not determine any final property impacts until we are further along in the design process,” said Turnpike spokeswoman Marissa Orbanek.
Project manager John Boyer added that affected owners would be contacted directly once specific impacts are identified.
There’s some relief for certain residents: homes in Fleetwing Estates fall outside both bridge alternatives currently on the table, and the historic Delaware Canal would remain untouched.
However, maps shown at a recent public open house offered the clearest picture yet of where the project could land. For some neighbors in Edgely, that picture hit close to home.
Learn more about the upcoming Pennsylvania Turnpike project and the potential impact on Bristol Township in Bucks County Courier Times.
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