He said the most substantial change to the current highway will be the shifting of the road to the north at the bend at Park and Harbison roads, and the shifting to the south at Balls Bend to straighten the busy highway. “There will be no detouring of Route 228,” Buchan said. He said that while traffic may be reduced to one lane or shifted in various ways during construction, Route 228 will not be closed. “We will build a wetland and stream mitigation adjacent to the new roadway,” Buchan said. The wetlands surrounding one of those curves, known as Balls Bend, will be replaced in a PennDOT right-of-way secured for the project. The construction project will begin with extensive utility relocation, Buchan said, before crews begin to build new sections of road that will serve to straighten out the two main curves in the road. Of the $30 million construction cost, $11.1 million will be paid from the federal Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development, or BUILD, grants received by Butler County.īuchan said the remainder will come from other federal and state funds.įive residences and one business were displaced to make way for the project, he said. The Balls Bend project will continue until 2025, as extensive work and relocating of the highway is involved, he said. No traffic restrictions are expected during this preliminary phase of work, but PennDOT is asking motorists to exercise caution in areas where employees or contractors are working.Įric Buchan, senior design project manager at PennDOT District 10, said Gateway 228 has been moved from the design to construction phase. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation last week stated that beginning Monday, crews will be completing a survey in the area and installing fences to delineate wetlands. The area of the two-part Gateway 228 project in Middlesex Township, known as the Balls Bend project, is from Route 8 west to Officer Ed Brooks Drive. The $43.8 million project will involve widening the two-lane highway to four lanes, two jug handles and adding a traffic light, the straightening of Balls Bend and another sweeping curve and replacement of a wetland. Preliminary work on the Route 228 widening and straightening project in Middlesex Township began Monday.
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