Year one of Riverview Park walkway project will run well into next month

LOCKPORT, PA – The one-lane traffic on the east end of the Farrandsville Road will continue well into November, but then work on the related Riverview Walkway project will be ending for the season and two traffic lanes will be back in use.

PennDOT has provided therecord-online with an update on the $7.5 million walkway to run from the north end of Veterans Bridge to the upstream Riverview Park. A highway agency spokesman out of Clearfield said work on the project will wind down for the year around Thanksgiving. The long-term traffic control lights will be pulled at that point and all lanes will reopen.

He said contractor Clearwater Construction will be doing drainage work throughout the winter, but this will be completed under daylight flagging conditions.

Work will resume in earnest in the spring in either mid-March or early April, as soon as temperatures have climbed high enough to pour concrete. PennDOT anticipates project completion in late June of next year.

Work this year has included building a temporary causeway on the Susquehanna riverbank to serve as a work platform to build the 800-foot retaining wall. Overall work on the project includes roadway realignment, utility relocations, drainage improvements, piping and inlets, construction of a retaining wall, sidewalks, curbing, ornamental light poles, guide rail, paving, pavement markings, and miscellaneous items.