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Project cost: $8.7 million
Construction start: Fall 2025
Estimated completion: Late 2027

PATCO Westmont & Collingswood Viaduct Substructure Preservation

Project Overview

PATCO is investing $8.7 million to improve and protect the viaducts at Collingswood and Westmont Stations, ensuring this vital part of the system remains strong and reliable for years to come. A viaduct is an elevated structure that carries train tracks over roadways and other areas below.

Built in the late 1960s, these stations have already seen major upgrades in recent years, including improvements to platforms, roofs, facilities, and track areas. This next phase focuses on rehabilitating and protecting the remaining portions of the stations- specifically sixty-one spans of the superstructure’s pre-stressed beams.

These upgrades highlight PATCO’s commitment to maintaining safe, reliable stations that continue to serve our communities well into the future.

The project scope includes:

  • Repainting and Repair: The project will blast clean and repaint the viaduct’s concrete beams and install new bird netting to prevent nesting, protect the structures from damage, and maintain cleaner conditions for the community.
  • Concrete Improvements: Crews will repair deteriorated areas and apply a protective coating to the concrete. These improvements will strengthen the viaducts, shield them from weather and wear, and help extend their useful life.
  • Electric: New power cabling and system improvements will boost reliability and keep trains running smoothly.
  • Safety & Maintenance: Crews will replace expansion joints and add a new handrail along the track area at Collingswood to give maintenance workers safer access while servicing the track area.

What Riders Can Expect

Train schedules are not expected to be affected during this project. Parking areas located directly under the tracks may have temporary rolling closures to allow for staging and construction work.

  • Parking: Parking within and directly adjacent to the work areas will be taken out of service during that stage of work. At times, ADA parking spaces will be relocated to other adjacent areas and will be signed and marked accordingly.

What the Community Can Expect

During construction, neighbors may notice typical construction noise, increased activity from trucks and equipment, and temporary road detours to allow overhead work. To help ease these impacts, noise reduction measures will be in place, and crews will work to keep disruptions to a minimum.

Construction will occur at both Westmont and Collingswood simultaneously but will be staged to only occupy four to five spans at any one time. The areas will be fenced off, tarped and will include additional sound dampening materials. Most of the construction will be completed during the day between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. but some nighttime activities will be required.

  • Local Road Access: At times, local roads may be either closed and detoured, shifted or reduced to a single lane with flaggers alternating traffic and/or local police assistance.
  • Work Area & Noise: Each work zone will be fully closed off and lined with 8' chain with acoustical sound dampening pads attached and tarps that will cover the remaining area.

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