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STOCKTON, NJ – The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC) today announced that wireless structural-monitoring sensors have been installed on the Centre Bridge-Stockton Toll-Supported Bridge linking Solebury Township, PA. and Stockton Borough, N.J. The sensors, however, won’t become operational until the Commission engineers and consultants conduct a series of mid-July overnight load tests to

YARDLEY, PA – The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission today announced its panel of officers for the next 12-month period. Aladar G. Komjathy of Lambertville, N.J. was elected chairman.  He replaces Michael B. Lavery, a Hackettstown, N.J. attorney who had served as chairman since December 2015.  Chairman Komjathy’s oath of office was administered by

SCUDDER FALLS – About one month remains until the May 27 target date for final completion of the five-year-long Scudder Falls Bridge Replacement Project. Remaining tasks include miscellaneous punch list work and tree planting/landscaping at various locations within the project limits in Ewing, N.J. and Lower Makefield, PA. Temporary single lane closures are possible —

WASHINGTON CROSSING – The 100th anniversary of the freeing of the narrow and functionally obsolete Washington Crossing Toll-Supported Bridge is at hand. According to published accounts, the bridge’s toll collector stopped accepting fares on the morning of April 26, 1922.  Until that point, tolls had been collected at the river crossing since January 1, 1835

EASTON, PA – The first of three protracted traffic shifts with single lanes in each direction at the Northampton Street Bridge (“the free bridge”) is scheduled to begin 9 a.m. Wednesday morning, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission announced today. The 9 a.m. start time marks the end of the normal peak weekday morning

EASTON, PA – The first in a series of traffic shifts and lane and walkway closures is scheduled to begin next week for a rehabilitation project at the Northampton Street Toll-Supported Bridge (“the free bridge”) between Easton, PA. and Phillipsburg, N.J. As early as Wednesday morning, March 16, the bridge’s upstream lane and adjoining walkway

LOWER MAKEFIELD, PA – The segment of PA Route 32/River Road in the vicinity of the Scudder Falls Toll Bridge is scheduled to be closed and detoured for crane disassembly, loading, and removal work 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, and Wednesday, Feb. 23. Morning commuters who use the Route 32/River Road segment

SCUDDER FALLS – Construction activities and some short-term travel restrictions for the Scudder Falls Bridge Replacement Project are scheduled to resume on January 3, 2022. The project reached the “substantial completion” mark in mid-December, bringing to a close all long-term uninterrupted lane and ramp closures.  Only short-term travel restrictions are expected to be needed to

SCUDDER FALLS – After 4-1/2 years of construction along a 4.4-mile-long stretch of I-295 in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the Scudder Falls Bridge Replacement achieved “substantial completion” with the opening of the reconstructed access ramp from NJ Route 175/Upper River Road to I-295 South in Ewing, N.J. The “substantial completion” construction milestone means all long-term

EWING, NJ – The NJ Route 175 entry ramp to I-295 South is expected to remain closed into late December and daytime closures along the NJ Route 29 southbound bypass lane beneath the Scudder Falls Bridge are scheduled to continue another week, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission announced today. The I-295 South access