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HILLTOWN TOWNSHIP Nearly a decade after the original closed, the newly-built county-owned bridge spanning Morris Run in Hilltown Township quietly opened to traffic last month.
The new and improved Bucks County Bridge No. 21, located along Rickert Road, honors some features of the historic structure it replaced while meeting state and federal standards for modern bridges.
Construction on the $1.6 million project began in February and wrapped up in November. Federal funds covered the vast majority of the cost, with the state and county, respectively, picking up 15 and 5 percent of the tab.
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Like its predecessor, the new 60-foot bridge is a single-span, concrete reinforced structure that makes prominent use of an arch in its design. Unlike the old bridge, the new one carries two lanes of traffic.