Southern Operations & Maintenance Facilities Improvements – Langhorne
The Commission is in the process of designing a new facility that will serve as the base of maintenance operations for the agency’s southern region, all of which lies in Bucks County, PA, and portions of two New Jersey counties (Mercer and Hunterdon). This new facility is expected to consist of two buildings, adjoining parking spaces, and ancillary service/equipment islands.
In 2019, the Commission purchased four adjoining parcels in Middletown Twp, PA. for this purpose. The combined tract – a former turkey farm with two former residences and several outbuildings (shacks and trailers) – consists of roughly 6 acres. The site is adjacent to a landscaping business, railroad tracks, and PECO electric utility substation. The property is zoned for light industry. It will not be a public facility; the location will be fenced with security cameras. Commission plans access to and from the site at Big Oak Road and Woodbourne Road.
The site is located virtually equidistant to the Commission’s two southernmost toll bridges – the Trenton-Morrisville (Route 1) Toll Bridge and the Scudder Falls (I-295) Toll Bridge. The Langhorne facility would primarily handle the routine maintenance needs of the dual-span Scudder Falls (I-295) Toll Bridge and the Commission’s new administrative office building near the Scudder Falls Bridge in Lower Makefield, PA.
In limited, more-complex instances, the Langhorne location also could provide repair/maintenance services for the Trenton-Morrisville Toll Bridge and the New Hope-Lambertville (Route 202) Toll Bridge and six smaller, Southern Region toll-supported bridges: Lower Trenton (“Trenton Makes”), Calhoun Street, Washington Crossing, New Hope-Lambertville, Centre Bridge-Stockton, and Lumberville-Raven Rock (pedestrian). [Note: General maintenance for the Trenton-Morrisville Toll Bridge and the Lower Trenton and Calhoun Street toll-supported Bridges is provided out of the Commission’s Morrisville maintenance facility; general maintenance for the New Hope-Lambertville (Route 202) Toll Bridge and the Washington Crossing, New Hope-Lambertville, Centre Bridge-Stockton, and Lumberville-Raven Rock (pedestrian) bridges is provided out of the Commission’s New Hope maintenance facility.]
All dates, quantities, dimensions on this page are approximate until final design completion.
Project Information
Duties to be performed:
- Landscaping
- Grass cutting
- Roadway repairs
- Vehicle repairs
- Snow removal
- Brining/salting
- Building maintenance
Most off-site duties 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, rest involved mostly salting)
- 12 brining operations
- 3 spot-salting call-in events
- 20 large trucks
- 5 medium-sized trucks
- 10 pickup trucks
- 4 loaders
- Various small equipment (mowers, landscaping trailers, plows, salt dispensers, etc.)
Vehicles and equipment will be deployed as needed depending on the job assignment, but typically only a few trucks are deployed – depending on the task assignment. Large trucks are used almost exclusively for roadway salting and plowing; these vehicles will not be able to pass beneath the nearby railroad trestle across Woodbourne Road.
Primary 45,000-square-foot, single-story building
- Vehicle storage garage
- Miscellaneous equipment storage
- Repair shop
- Welding area
- Office area
- Lockers
- Kitchen/lunchroom
Salt-storage facility
- Barn-styled
- 5,000-ton capacity to mitigate frequent deliveries
- Adjoining brine-mixing equipment and tank
- Storage tank for magnesium-chloride (liquid ice-melt for sub-15-degree-Fahrenheit temperatures and brine mixing)
Other facilities
- Employee parking
- Outdoor parking spaces for trucks and equipment
- Fueling island (gas and diesel)
- Fencing of property has been completed
- Site demolition and environmental abatement completed second quarter 2020
- Demolition of 10 structures (two residences and various shacks, coops, trailers)
- Removal of asbestos, underground tanks, contaminated soil, lead paint
- Project design: completed first quarter 2021
- Construction contract bidding (advertisement, acceptance, approval): fall 2020 – early 2021
- Started construction: Early 2021
- Substantial completion of salt-operation facilities: third quarter 2023
- Completion of multi-use building and other site improvements: third quarter 2023
LANGHORNE
45,000-square-foot garage/office/employee facilities building
Conceptual site map (rendering is conceptual; image could change slightly)
5,000-ton Salt Barn
For questions or comments, please contact:
Jodee Inscho
Director of Community Affairs
Email: jinscho@drjtbc.org
Phone: 267-394-6561
By mail:
Jodee Inscho
Director of Community Affairs
Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission
1199 Woodside Road
Yardley, PA 19067-1334
