PennDOT provides an update on the Bradford County Bridge | 28/22 News

TROY TOWNSHIP, BRADFORD COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — 28/22 News now knows how long repairs will take to fix the Route 6 bridge in Bradford County that was hit by an oversized load.

PennDOT’s tentative plan is to have the bridge over Sugar Creek in Troy Township reopened by the end of August.

PennDOT officials gathered on the Route 6 bridge in Troy Township Monday morning.

The bridge was damaged in the June 12 truck accident and has been closed ever since.

“This bridge carries around 4,000 vehicles a day, and a healthy percentage of those vehicles are truck traffic. And it’s not lost on me that Route 6 in northern Pennsylvania is the equivalent of an interstate as far as I’m concerned, and the importance of that road speaks for itself,” said PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll.

Carroll says it’s expected to cost between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000, which PennDOT has allocated emergency funds to cover.

“The next steps are to start implementing the repairs, but before we do that, we need to do an inventory to check the availability of the steel, the specialized steel that’s needed for that and make sure we can get it on site,” he said Eric High, PennDOT District 3 director of engineering.

The 12-mile detour will remain in place throughout construction, which High says will be advanced as quickly as possible.

“Our aim is to have it completed and reopened by the end of August, but that is very variable at the moment, we should have a better idea in the next week of how quickly we can get the material and reopen the bridge ,” High continued.

Stay tuned to the 28/22 news as we continue to follow this developing story.