DUNMORE — Two significant bridge projects in Lackawanna County near their completion as the roads are expected to open this week, PennDOT officials announced Tuesday.
During a news conference to highlight construction accomplishments throughout 2025, Harold Hill, PennDOT District 4 Assistant District Executive, announced both the Twin Bridges and Green Ridge Street Bridge are expected to open Thursday. The remainder of the work to wrap up both projects will be completed in 2026, officials said.
“With the warmer weather coming in the next day or two, we’re going to be able to put lines down and get those bridges open,” Hill said. “We’ll be taking the temporary bridge down on Green Ridge Street and then traffic will be back on the mainline.”
The $113 million Twin Bridges project on Interstate 84 — which began in 2020 — involved the replacement of two mainline bridges carrying Interstate 84 eastbound and westbound over Roaring Brook and the active Delaware, Lackawanna and Western (DL&W) Railroad, and the reconfiguration of Exit 2 with Route 435 in Dunmore Borough and Roaring Brook Twp., PennDOT officials said
“You’ll be able to travel both east and westbound, and then in the spring we’ll do some minor paving work, but for all intents and purposes that bridge is done,” Hill said.
A nearly $20 million project to replace the 208-foot-long, 52-foot-wide Green Ridge Bridge in Scranton started near the end of 2024 as PennDOT closed a portion of Nay Aug Avenue for reconstruction in early December last year, officials said.
The two-lane bridge over the Lackawanna River, built in 1946 and partly upgraded in 1983, deteriorated and had to be replaced, PennDOT officials said. Otherwise, the state would have needed to post weight limits that would block big trucks from supplying shopping centers and other businesses on Green Ridge Street, officials added.
The project called for construction of a temporary bridge next to the original bridge, followed by demolition of the original bridge and construction of a permanent bridge in that same spot.
In early May, PennDOT opened a temporary bridge carrying Green Ridge Street over the Lackawanna River which accommodates two-lane, two-way traffic with an attached pedestrian walkway located on the upstream side of the bridge.
“It takes a group effort to get all this work completed with safety and quality in mind,” Hill said.
Additionally, PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll praised the work of crews on the Green Ridge Bridge project.
“I was there to see the temporary bridge that was deployed, and that made that project advance quicker and made it safer for the delivery of the new asset,” he said.
PennDOT District 4’s Executive Assistant of Construction Harold Hill speaks during a press conference at the PennDOT District 4 headquarters in Dunmore on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
PennDOT District 4’s Executive Assistant of Construction Harold Hill speaks during a press conference at the PennDOT District 4 headquarters in Dunmore on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
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PennDOT District 4’s Executive Assistant of Construction Harold Hill speaks during a press conference at the PennDOT District 4 headquarters in Dunmore on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
During the 2025 construction season in District 4, which covers Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming counties, 52 projects were put out to bid, crews performed approximately 578 miles of paving and roadway maintenance, 49 bridges were repaired or replaced, and more than 10,000 miles of lines were painted, Hill said.
Significant construction work throughout Luzerne County in 2025 included a $4.7 million Fort Jenkins Bridge preservation project in West Pittston and a $3.2 million bridge replacement on Route 2041 in Bear Creek Twp.
Carroll stressed that while not every job gets the attention of the Twin Bridges project, each task is important to ensure safe travel.
“The projects we do across the state, in some ways, are workmanlike and ordinary, but they’re all important — whether it’s a small bridge that carries a state road over a creek or a mill and fill project to resurface a Main Street,” he said.
Carroll also urges travelers to drive responsibly, especially during winter storms and when navigating construction zones by slowing down and avoiding cellphone use.
“It’s critically important to me that every single person that works in a construction zone makes it home safely every single night,” he said. “I would also like the motoring public to make it home safely every night.”