DRBA to hold public meetings on major Delaware Memorial Bridge work

The Delaware River and Bay Authority is readying commuters for a significant building undertaking on the Delaware Memorial Bridge.

The three section undertaking on the New Jersey-bound span of the bridge is the primary deck overlay on this span because it was reopened to site visitors in 1968.

The highest 2 inches of the prevailing deck slabs will likely be eliminated and changed with an Extremely Excessive-Efficiency Concrete overlay on the span.

The primary section will get underway proper after Labor Day, and it is going to be accomplished previous to Thanksgiving weekend. The second section takes place within the spring and the third will begin after Labor Day 2023.

DRBA’s Jim Salmon says the plan is to verify there are nonetheless three lanes of site visitors going to New Jersey and coming to Delaware throughout building.

“Despite the fact that two lanes are going to be shut down on the New Jersey-bound span we’ll proceed to keep up three lanes in each instructions, and also you ask how would we do this. We’ll open up a bypass lane with a short lived Jersey barrier on the outside lane of the southbound bridge and designate that for northbound site visitors,” stated Salmon.

Development on the Delaware span will likely be suspended throughout this undertaking.

The primary digital public session is Thursday July 28 at 5 p.m., and the second is August 16 at 10 a.m.

Salmon says the general public conferences will cowl the complete undertaking.

“Every session will present an outline of the deck overlay undertaking, its significance and lane restrictions, site visitors impacts, and the timing and scheduling of the exercise on the northbound span,” stated Salmon.

Each will likely be by way of zoom with hyperlinks at www.bridgealerts.com.