PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Construction is expected to begin next month on a distinctive bridge that will carry South Street pedestrians to Penn\u2019s Landing. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The tied-arch bridge with the curved-arc support structure is sure to redefine the skyline along the waterfront. It\u2019s extending the existing South Street pedestrian bridge across Columbus Boulevard. <\/p>\n
Construction was originally planned for this summer, but it\u2019s a little behind. Assembly is now on track to begin in September.<\/p>\n
PennDOT spokesperson Brad Rudolph said it\u2019s taking a little longer to test the materials and design elements. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very unique structure, a real signature structure that\u2019s going in here. It\u2019s pretty new for PennDOT, so there are a lot of materials that are new to PennDOT specs that need to be reviewed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The bridge will be built in a lot near the I-95 CAP project and then moved to its permanent location in one night, probably next March.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne day it\u2019s not going to be there and the next day you\u2019re going to have this huge span going across Christopher Columbus Boulevard and connecting to the river,\u201d Rudolph said.<\/p>\n
After that, the approaches and the river-side ramp need to be built, so the bridge won\u2019t be open to walkers until late 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Construction is expected to begin next month on a distinctive bridge that will carry…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":986921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,395721,109597,1448,395720,22073,69634,2830,1311,111170,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-986920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-delaware-waterfront","tag-i-95","tag-pa","tag-penn-s-landing","tag-penns-landing","tag-penndot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-south-street","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117054741807636412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}