The Ridge Pike Improvement Project, Section C from Butler Pike...
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The Ridge Pike Improvement Project, Section C from Butler Pike
to Crescent Avenue, has begun. Municipal elected officials,
planning commission members, and staff were provided an
opportunity to meet the engineers, hear about how the
project’s design will progress, and offer insights to issues
associated with this section of Ridge Pike.
Ridge Pike is a County-owned roadway. The County Roads and Bridges
Department and the County Planning Commission are partnering to
manage all sections of the Ridge Pike project.
Rummel, Klepper, and Kahl ,LLP (RKK) was chosen for a competitive
process for the preliminary design.
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RKK will be working with several sub-consultants to complete the
preliminary design.
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The Butler Pike to Crescent Avenue section is known as Section C of the comprehensive
Ridge Pike Improvement Project.
Section A realigned the Conshohocken Road intersection with Ridge Pike and reconstructed
the section of Ridge Pike between Lucetta Street and School Lane. This section is complete.
Section B extends from Belvoir Avenue to Chemical Road. This section is in Final Design and
includes reconstruction of Ridge Pike to include a center left turn lane as well as
replacement of two bridges over the Norfolk Southern Railroad.
Section C will include reconstruction of Ridge Pike between Butler Pike and Crescent
Avenue and bottleneck improvements. Preliminary design has just begun.
Section D includes reconstruction between Crescent Avenue and Northwestern Avenue at
the Philadelphia city line. This section is in Final Design. Section D will add an eastbound
through lane to create two travel lanes in each direction.
Sidewalks and upgraded stormwater management facilities will be added in all sections of
the reconstruction project.
In addition, the Pennsylvania Turnpike is designing a new Lafayette Street Interchange.
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Section C includes residential neighborhoods as well as commercial and
open space land uses along the corridor.
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Section C is 1.9 miles long and will include full depth reconstruction of
Ridge Pike. This level of maintenance has not been completed for Ridge
Pike since it was originally constructed. Sidewalks will be added and
upgraded along the south side of the roadway and stormwater
management facilities will be improved.
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Preliminary design is underway with data collection, aerial photography
of the corridor, survey to confirm details on the ground, and
environmental review and analysis.
Preliminary design will continue through 2018 and 2019. A second
engineering contract will then be established to complete the Final
Design of the project.
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Photogrammetric mapping begins with accurate aerial photography and
the is “ground-truthed” with survey to provide the baseline data upon
which the reconstruction plans will be created.
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Federal and state environmental cultural resources will be met and
alternatives that reduce impacts will be evaluated.
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A public open house is anticipated late in 2018 to share the preliminary
findings with the community. Until then, regular updates will be held
with municipal stakeholders as well as some individual property owners,
as needed.
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Traffic counts were conducted in the fall of 2017 and indicated that this
section of Ridge Pike also carries more than 30,000 vehicles per day.
These counts are total of both eastbound and westbound traffic
volumes.
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Traffic volume peaks are generally consistent with other roadways in the
region with weekday morning and afternoon peaks, consistent volume
through most of Saturday and a narrower peak Sunday around noon.
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Preliminary design will continue through 2018 and 2019. Preliminary
design identifies the issues that must be addressed with the construction
project and evaluates reasonable alternatives where conflicts exist. Final
design will complete the details of the reconstruction and prepare the
construction plans. Construction is anticipated in the early 2020’s.
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