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BRIDGE WAS REMOVED AFTER FLOOD DAMAGE ---PART OF ESCAPE ROUTE TO ALLOW LIMERICK TO BE BUILT, NOW THERE A FEW MORE PEOPLE AND CARS AND LESS ESCAPE ROUTE'S ??????
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REPLACE BRIDGE IN YERKES ▶ Open
Route 29 And Yerkes Road
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TOM CUTHBERTSON (Guest)
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goffball (Guest)
jason carl (Guest)
jason carl (Guest)
Closed Kevin Donohue (Registered User)
TOM CUTHBERTSON (Guest)
Reopened Kevin Donohue (Registered User)
LuAnne G (Guest)
There are actually two of these its a shame they couldn't be combined??
the other one is: Issue ID:40286 Just says REPLACE BRIDGE- in title reported on 6/3/2010
Why have so many years gone by with nothing addressed?
robert (Registered User)
As a Lower Providence resident (in the area of the site of the old bridge), I think more than a bridge for motor vehicles, what's needed is a safe way for residents to get to the other side of the creek for access to the Perkiomen Trail.
As it stands now, area residents have two options to access the Perkiomen Trail by foot or bike: Ridge Avenue (which has no shoulder, a 40mi/hr speed limit, and no direct access to the Perkiomen Trail) and Level Road (a blind turn on a 12% grade with no shoulder).
I've tried to use both routes to access that trail and both are flat out dangerous for both pedestrians and cyclists.
Bottom line is that we don't need the traffic. Besides, there's already another motor vehicle bridge being built somewhere off of Pechins Mill Road.
What we need is a reasonable and safe way for Lower Providence residents to access the Perkiomen Trail. The site of the old bridge at Yerkes Road makes the most sense for this.