Detour to where?

DAVID HULSE
Posted 8/21/12

NARROWSBURG, NY — Ongoing and planned bridge closures and construction have prompted some confusion over the many orange detour signs redirecting traffic around the Skinners Falls and Narrowsburg …

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NARROWSBURG, NY — Ongoing and planned bridge closures and construction have prompted some confusion over the many orange detour signs redirecting traffic around the Skinners Falls and Narrowsburg bridges, National Park Service (NPS) Superintendent Chris Heister said on May 5.

Reporting to the Upper Delaware Council, Heister said that while the Skinners Falls Bridge is closed, the two access roads from New York Route 97 also serve the Lander’s campground adjoining the bridge.The campground remains open, and there are other homes along road. Signage can give the impression that the road itself is closed.

The bridge’s northbound access road also has a barrier as well as several detour arrows, one of which appears to point traffic toward the closed bridge.

Heister’s assistant, Carla Hahn, who is a native and familiar with the road, has been coordinating NPS river signs related to the construction. She has also been trying to advise PennDOT, which is responsible for the signage on the New York roads. She said the addition of the language “local traffic only” would help.

Hahn said she has suggested detouring southbound traffic further north at Cochecton/Damascus, rather than sending them south to Narrowsburg, where other bridge construction delays will be ongoing.

She said the detour issue partly a question of coordination between the two states. She’s planning on attending the upcoming annual meeting of the New York-Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission, where officials from both will be on hand. “I’m hoping once we can all get together, we can sort it out.”

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