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ROUTE 6 BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN
Signs announcing the bridge's closing as early as that date were posted this week, but the implications of the project may not be apparent to many Coudersport residents until the traffic disruptions begin. All traffic that would normally pass through the Coudersport business district westbound on Rt. 6 will be rerouted off from East Second Street via a left turn near the Coudersport Consistory onto Mill Street. Traffic will be detoured over the Mill Street Bridge and up the hill to Oak Street, where it will turn right and rejoin Rt. 6 at the South Main Street intersection, across from the former Adelphia Operations Building. Eastbound Rt. 6 traffic will be detoured onto Maple Street near the McDonald's Restaurant and St. Eulalia Catholic Church and directed up the hill to Mill Street, unless the motorist intends to connect with northbound Rt. 44-49 at the intersection of Main and Second streets. Detoured traffic will travel down Mill Street from the Maple Street intersection to the East Second Street intersection, where it will meet Rt. 6. Most of Maple Street and Oak Street will become oneway, while Mill Street will carry two-way traffic diverted from Rt. 6. A. L. Blades & Sons Inc. of Hornell, N.Y., has widened curbs and made other arrangements to acc ommodate tractor-trailers and other vehicles through that residential section of the borough. Detours will remain in effect for an estimated six months. Several business owners in the downtown area are concerned about the impact the bridge work will have on them. The new bridge will carry the same name as the current structure. It was dedicated last October to Specialist Michael Franklin, a Coudersport native who was killed by a roadside bomb in 2005 while serving in Iraq. |
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