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If you regularly travel the section of Lower Saucon Road between Apple Street and Alpine Drive, the amount of time it takes to reach your destination will likely be greater beginning Friday.
Residents frustrated by the lack of progress on a bridge replacement project on Blue Church Road in Upper Saucon Township received an update from on it from township officials Monday night, although the news probably wasn’t music to anyone’s ears.
An Upper Saucon Township bridge that has been closed since it was damaged by flooding in 2018 could be replaced as early as next year. But it could take longer to replace it if amicable agreements with neighboring property owners for rights-of-way acquisition aren’t reached.
“PennDOT has consistently said (the intersections) don’t warrant (turn arrows),” Hellertown Borough Council president Tom Rieger told resident Don Werkheiser Monday, after Werkheiser said rush hour traffic is backing up south of Walnut Street.
Lower Saucon Township will receive $219,640 to replace the Lower Saucon Road Bridge, which is a two-lane culvert-style bridge that spans the east branch of the Saucon Creek near Easton Road.
Roger Jurczak, Vice President of the Saucon Valley Conservancy, came before Hellertown Borough Council to ask whether the circa 1860s pier can be saved from demolition when the Water Street Bridge is replaced.
Crossing an aged local bridge will soon be more difficult for some vehicles, after a weight limit is added to it for safety reasons.
Torrential rain from a slow-moving line of thunderstorms that trained across the Saucon Valley and Southern Lehigh areas Saturday afternoon resulted in flash flooding in the Wassergass area of eastern Lower Saucon Township.
Improved pedestrian access to the west side of Main Street, and beyond that the Saucon Rail Trail, could be coming to the south end of Hellertown if the borough receives a grant that borough council voted 6-1 to apply for Monday.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced Thursday that a nearly three-mile section of Limeport Pike in Upper Saucon and Lower Milford townships will be closed from Saturday, June 23 through mid-August for the replacement of a 1928 bridge over a tributary to the Saucon Creek.
