Route 222 project between Ephrata and Lancaster/Berks County Line starts May 27
HARRISBURG --
Construction crews have scheduled a nighttime operation starting Tuesday, May 27, to excavate and strengthen the four-foot left-hand shoulder of northbound Route 222 in northern Lancaster County. This work marks the start of a project to repair and resurface a 7¼-mile stretch of Route 222 between Ephrata and Adamstown from the Mohlers Church Road overpass, one mile north of the interchange with Route 322, over the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the Lancaster/ Berks County Line. Sections of Route 222 average between 14,250 and 20,300 vehicles traveled in each direction per day.
For the first week-and-a-half, motorists are advised of single-lane traffic restrictions, Sunday-Thursday from 7:30 p.m.-5:30 a.m., as crews strengthen and pave the left-hand shoulder in preparation for a traffic shift. Once this work is complete, crews will shift traffic to the left lane and shoulder and begin a daytime concrete patching and bridge-approach slab repair operation on northbound Route 222 that will necessitate around-the-clock, long-term, single-lane restrictions. Later this summer, when repairs are finished in the northbound lanes, crews will begin work to repair the southbound lanes of Route 222. PennDOT will issue a traffic advisory once this work is scheduled.
PennDOT has contracted with Kinsley Construction, Inc. of York, Pennsylvania, to conduct the highway improvement project on Route 222 at a cost of $10,361,883. The project consists of shoulder and drainage improvements, concrete patching and bridge-approach slab repair, pavement resurfacing, guide rail installation and pavement markings. The entire project is anticipated to be finished in July 2009.
