Road and bridge construction season continues to ramp up around Indiana County, with PennDOT announcing yesterday that Indiana Street in Plumville will be closed for most of next month to prepare for a bridge replacement project scheduled for next year.
Between April 5th and the 30th, Indiana Street between the Plumville fire hall and Corbett Avenue will be closed as workers realign the channel of a stream and clear the area around the Plumville #2 bridge. The bridge will be replaced in the 2020 construction schedule.
Traffic will be detoured using Railroad Street, Chestnut Street, Corbett Avenue, Locust Street, Adams Avenue, and East Oak Street. The agency says foot traffic will not be detoured as a protected path through the work zone will be maintained for pedestrians.
PennDOT announced last week that the Homer City Three Bridges construction project will resume on April 1st, when traffic pattern changes take effect on Route 119 from Luzerne Road to Route 56. Traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction utilizing both the northbound and southbound lanes.
The work there began in June of 2017 and will finally wrap up in the late fall of this year. In addition to the rebuilding of a northbound and a southbound bridge, the work includes the elimination of the bridges over Tide Road and an abandoned private railroad, with Tide Road reconfigured to become an intersection with 119. The project also includes the widening of 119, new concrete separator barriers between the northbound and southbound lanes, plus a new traffic signal for the dangerous Route 119/Route 56 intersection.
