Gas pipeline replacement project to cause closures at Northampton Street Bridge

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTB) has announced that a gas pipeline replacement will cause lane closures at/near the Northampton Street Bridge.

The pipeline replacement project will be conducted by the Elizabethtown Gas company.

The replacement project will cause overnight, New Jersey bound traffic detours at the Northampton Street Bridge, also known as the Easton-Phillipsburg “free bridge”.

The detours will start Monday night, March 24, and continuing for up to one week, says the DRJTB.

The DRJTB says an Elizabethtown Gas contractor, Skoda Construction, is scheduled to replace aging gas mains and connections at Main Street and Union Square on the Phillipsburg side of the bridge. The work activities are scheduled to be from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. (next day) on weeknights. This is not a Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission project.

New Jersey-bound traffic will be blocked from crossing the bridge at the Easton side. Affected motorists are advised to cross into Phillipsburg via the non-toll eastbound direction on the nearby Easton-Phillipsburg (Route 22) Toll Bridge.

Elizabethtown Gas and Skoda Construction are expected to set up their construction activities in a way that would allow Pennsylvania-bound traffic to continue crossing the Northampton Street Bridge whenever overnight replacement work takes place.

More information on Elizabethtown Gas’s pipeline replacement project can be found here.