Southern Operations & Maintenance Facilities Improvements – Morrisville

• Toll-collecting at Trenton-Morrisville (Route 1) Toll Bridge
• Security system-wide
• Landscaping
• Grass cutting
• Roadway repairs
• Snow removal
• Brining/salting
• Building maintenance

Maintenance work details are assigned by supervisors in daily assignments to crews of four or five employees.

Winter/snow operations typically require a crew consisting of a variable number of workers with each worker driving a truck. A salting event crew may entail three to six workers; a plowing event crew may entail up to 15 workers depending on an event’s severity.  Crews will load trucks with salt, attach plows and proceed to Commission facilities to perform salting/plowing operations. This function typically proceeds for many hours, with return trips to the maintenance facility, until a storm ends.

Recent DRJTBC Southern Region winter operations:

• 2019-20
  • 6 storm events (all were mostly salting)
  • 8 brining operations
  • 5 spot-salting call-in events
• 2018-19
  • 17 storm events (three involved prolonged plowing; the rest involved mostly salting)
  • 12 brining operations
  • 3 spot-salting call-in events

• Up to five large trucks
• Up to two medium-sized trucks
• 2 pickup trucks
• Loaders
• Various small equipment (mowers, landscaping trailers, plows, salt spreaders, etc.)

Vehicles and equipment will be deployed as needed depending on the job assignment, but typically only a few trucks are deployed.  Large trucks are used almost exclusively for roadway salting and plowing.

• 500-ton salt-storage building
• Fueling island and canopy
• Magnesium-Chloride tank and spray bar
• Parking lot improvements and fencing

• Demarcation Building for controlling utilities, data and power to the site

• Demolition of old, largely vacant four-story administration building (24,000 sq. ft.)
• Construct new two-story “Ops building” for security and toll bridge personnel (16,120 sq. ft.).  The new building will contain the following:
  • Various offices
  • Security operations
  • State Police liaison offices
  • Break rooms/conference rooms
  • Storage
  • Men and women locker rooms
  • Toll operations
  • Men and women bathrooms
  • Elevator
  • Roof connection to toll plaza canopy
  • Mechanical and custodial rooms

• Demolition of old maintenance facilities and garages (12,000 sq. ft.)
• Construct new downsized garage structure (8,910 sq. ft.).  This new building will contain the following:
  • Vehicle-storage space
  • Equipment-storage space
  • Sign shop
  • Carpenter shop
  • Men & Women bathrooms and lockers
  • Offices
  • Break/conference room
  • Mechanical and custodial rooms

• During demolition and construction, perimeter fencing will be installed around the site with electronic-card access only
  • Commission-owned Wood Street between Grove and Bank streets will be closed to pass-through traffic
• Majority of maintenance vehicles to be stored off-site during construction in 2021 through 2024
• Additional parking lot improvements Stages 2, 3, and 4
• Perimeter landscape architectural elements
  • Plantings include: Apple serviceberry, red-twig dogwood, white spruce, Austrian pine, mission arborvitae, and juniper

7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Mondays to Fridays (Saturdays if necessary)

(Note:  Morrisville’s ordinances allow noise-related work from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.)

Send inquiries or questions to the Commission’s Director of Community Affairs Jodee Inscho at jinscho@drjtbc.org. Ms. Inscho’s office phone is 267-394-6561.

Completed 500-ton salt-storage building with loader and trucks (December 2020)

Site-rendering of redesigned Morrisville site when completed

16,120-square-foot “Ops building” with attached demarcation room (two windows on left) and proximate fuel island, magnesium-chloride (snow/ice melt) tank, and salt-storage barn

8,910-square-foot vehicle-storage building

Click here to view the Sept. 20, 2021 presentation to the Morrisville Borough Council.