KING OF PRUSSIA, PA — PennDOT’s southeastern Pennsylvania engineering district is closing out the 2025 construction season after launching 56 new contracts valued at more than $1.2 billion and advancing a sweeping slate of highway and bridge projects across five counties.
PennDOT Engineering District 6, which covers Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties, reported that 128 projects worth more than $3.4 billion were underway across the region during the year, part of one of the most aggressive infrastructure investment cycles in recent memory.
“This year we continued to advance our infrastructure program with 128 projects underway worth more than $3.4 billion across the region,” District 6 Executive Din Abazi said. He cited improvements focused on safety, reliability, and long-term preservation of the transportation network, while thanking motorists for their patience during construction.
From January through November, PennDOT improved more than 5,700 miles of roadway statewide, including more than 1,700 miles of paving, and began work to repair, replace, or preserve 396 bridges. Under the Shapiro administration, the agency reports that 17,722 miles of roadway have been improved and work has advanced on 1,540 state and local bridges.
Within District 6 alone, the 2025 construction season included 56 projects put out to bid totaling $1.26 billion, with 31 construction contracts completed or substantially completed. Crews replaced or preserved 36 bridges, paved 200 miles of roadway, and performed maintenance work on another 246 miles.
Several high-profile projects reached completion or substantial completion during the year, including the $116 million U.S. 1 RC2 Improvement Project in Bensalem and Middletown townships, the $43.2 million Route 309/63 Connector Phase 2 in Montgomery County, and the $15.4 million South Creek Road Bridge Replacement spanning Chester and Delaware counties. Additional work wrapped up on bridge projects in Norristown and West Marlborough Township.
Construction activity also ramped up on some of the region’s most complex and costly transportation efforts. Among the largest projects to begin construction or move through bidding were two major sections of the I-95 reconstruction in Philadelphia totaling more than $667 million, $261.4 million in improvements to the Girard Point Bridge, and a $63.4 million replacement of the U.S. 322 bridge over CSX tracks in Delaware County.
Other projects entering construction included intersection upgrades in Montgomery County, bridge replacements in Bucks County, and sinkhole remediation along the U.S. 30 Exton Bypass in Chester County.
Several major undertakings continued through 2025, including the $329 million I-95 CAP project in Philadelphia, improvements along U.S. 322 and U.S. 422, multiple bridge replacements along Route 420 in Delaware County, and safety upgrades at key intersections in Montgomery and Chester counties.
PennDOT officials said work will continue into the next construction season, with many projects carrying over as part of long-term efforts to modernize southeastern Pennsylvania’s aging transportation infrastructure.
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