Driving around Northampton Township can be beautiful and quite pleasant until, wham, the car hits a pothole and your world is literally rocked. Sound familiar? Last week Northampton Patch showcased five of the worst roads and bridges in township lines including 2nd Street Pike, Elm Avenue, Hatboro Road, the Mill Creek bridge on Bristol Road and the Ironworks Creek Bridge on Chinquapin Road. PennDOT spokesman Gene Blaum said the department is aware of the poor state of bridges in Pennsylvania, recently qualified by a study produced by the advocacy group Transportation for America. According …
This week Northampton Patch will highlight the bridges in the worst shape and some of the most teeth-rattling spots on the roads. Check back each day for a new location, and feel free to add your own in the comments. Chinquapin Road Ironworks Creek Bridge: This structurally deficient bridge was built in 1966 and carries 2,220 cars per day. It's inspected every 24 months and is due again in July. The deck has a rating of 4, the superstructure is a 4 and the substructure is a 6. To find out how to read this date, check out Northampton Patch's introduction to the Rough Road series.
This week Northampton Patch will highlight the bridges in the worst shape and some of the most teeth-rattling spots on the roads. Check back each day for a new location, and feel free to add your own in the comments. Bristol Road Mill Creek Bridge: This structurally deficient bridge was built in 1963 and carries 4,889 cars per day. It's inspected every 12 months. The deck has a rating of 5, the superstructure is a 3 and the substructure is a 6. To find out how to read this date, check out Northampton Patch's introduction to the Rough Road series.
This week Northampton Patch will highlight the bridges in the worst shape and some of the most teeth-rattling spots on the roads. Check back each day for a new location, and feel free to add your own in the comments. Hatboro Road: Although most of the road is in decent shape, the section between Tanyard Road and Pulinski Road has some trouble along the shoulder. In addition, there are some large potholes near the center of the road along the double yellow lines. The speed limit here is 35 m.p.h., but even then that stretch is pretty rough.
This week Northampton Patch will highlight the bridges in the worst shape and some of the most teeth-rattling spots on the roads. Check back each day for a new location, and feel free to add your own in the comments. Elm Avenue: Even though the pothole-speckled pavement leading up to the bridge that crosses Ironworks Creek, the bridge itself is actually in decent shape. Don't let your eyes fool you; it has an 86.9 percent sufficiency rate and marks five or above for each of the three parts regularly evaluated. The roads, on the other hand, could use some TLC. In addition to a small to non-…
Some of the roads and bridges Northampton residents take every day have disintigrated to a point far past being nuisances. In fact, in a study released by advocacy group Transportation for America, Pennsylvania holds the top spot for the most deteriorating bridges in the country, a whopping 26.5 percent. “Since the 2007 collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, Americans have been acutely aware of the critical need to maintain our bridges,” James Corless, director of Transportation for America, said in a recent statement. On March 30, the study titled, "The Fix We're In For: the State of …
