Repaving work to resume at Milford-Montague Toll Bridge

Peter Becker, Tri-County Independent
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Motorists have been advised that starting around May 8, traffic that will be down to one lane for about three weeks on the Milford-Montague (Route 206) Toll Bridge.

The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission announced that the bridge is to be repaved.

The bridge connects Pennsylvania just south of Milford Borough, Pike County, with Sussex County, NJ near Montague.

Work is to be carried out around-the-clock, controlled by temporary portable traffic signals at the bridge. The commission advises motorists to allow extra time to reach their destinations if they plan to use the bridge during this period.

The Milford-Montague (Route 206) Toll Bridge spans the Delaware River, accessed on the Pennsylvania side from Route 209 just south of Milford Borough, Pike County. The bridge is pictured in the background, looking south from Milford Beach, part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Sussex County, New Jersey is on the left.
The Milford-Montague (Route 206) Toll Bridge spans the Delaware River, accessed on the Pennsylvania side from Route 209 just south of Milford Borough, Pike County. The bridge is pictured in the background, looking south from Milford Beach, part of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Sussex County, New Jersey is on the left.

Work crews will be addressing the remaining one-quarter of the bridge’s driving surface that needs rehabilitation. The bridge deck will be milled to tackle the weathered pothole-strewn road surface. A protective moisture-retardant membrane new pavement will be applied.

After this work is done, the contractor will be applying new lane striping across the bridge.

The work is weather sensitive but is expected to be completed by early June.

Mount Construction Co., Inc. is under contract to do this work at slightly less than $2.9 million. The project began late last summer, but the final segment of work had to be placed on hold for the winter months.

The two-lane Milford-Montague Toll Bridge serves an important gateway function from Sussex County, NJ to the northern Pocono Mountains region in Pennsylvania and for the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area, which straddles both sides of the river. The bridge is reached on the Pennsylvania side from US Route 209 and from the New Jersey side on US 206.

The bridge is the most northern bridge connecting the Keystone and Garden states. It is the commission’s second-least-travelled toll bridge, having carried a daily average of 7,000 vehicles in 2022.

The four-span bridge is 1,150-feet long. It is the only deck-truss bridge in the Commission’s 20-bridge system.

The bridge opened to traffic December 30, 1953, replacing a 64-year-old iron truss bridge.

"All Roads Lead to Milford, Pennsylvania" by Skip Gregory, reported in 2007 that the new span was once hailed as America's mots beautiful steel bridge.

This article originally appeared on Tri-County Independent: Repaving work to resume at Milford-Montague bridge at Delaware River