After years of planning, Pennsylvania and New Jersey Turnpike officials have settled on a design for the long-awaited replacement of the Delaware River Bridge linking Bucks County and Burlington County, writes Thomas Fitzgerald for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The plan calls for a six-lane tied-arch bridge, rising roughly 195 feet north of the current 70-year-old span that connects the two states’ turnpikes between Bristol, PA and Florence, NJ.
At an estimated $1.6 billion, the design beat out competing proposals largely on practicality. Officials say the new design can be built faster and cheaper than the alternatives…