Published November 01. 2014 09:00AM
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that construction on the Route 309 Bridge over Lizard Creek (Snyders Bridge) in West Penn Township, Schuylkill County is now complete.
The project included the replacement of the structurally deficient concrete T-beam Bridge with a new two-span concrete bulb T-beam bridge.During construction, Route 309 traffic lanes were shifted. There were no long-term lane restrictions for this project.Deblin Inc. of Mechanicsburg is the general contractor on the $2.7 million project.The original bridge was a two-span concrete T-beam bridge that was constructed in 1930. It was 119 feet long, 20 feet wide.The new bridge is 140 feet long, 55 feet wide, two-span concrete bulb T-beam bridge.