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Friday, April 11, 2008 at 2p.m. There will be a ceremony to mark the naming of a portion of Route 22/322 in Juniata County for the late Dr. L. G. Guiser. The event is being held at the fish and boat access area between the highway and the Juniata River. The public is invited. Access the site from the eastbound lanes of Route 22/322 through the Lewistown Narrows. The ramp to the fish and boat area is about four miles east of the Lewistown Interchange.
December 14, 2007: The fourth new highway lane opened to traffic permitting, for the first time, two lanes of traffic in each direction.
December 5, 2007: Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Allen D. Biehler, P.E., was in the Narrows to recognize the expected early completion of the project. Also speaking at the media event attended by elected and community leaders was Pennsylvania Senator Jake Corman.
November 2, 2007:
PennDOT announced that it expects all four lanes of the Narrows to be open by the end of 2007, well ahead of the original Fall 2008 schedule
October 25, 2007: Governor Edward Rendell signs legislation naming a portion of the Narrows, Route 22/322 from the Mifflintown exit in Juniata County to the Juniata/Mifflin County line, as the Dr. L.G. Guiser Memorial Highway.
September 2007: The annual field conference of the Pennsylvania Geologists included a viewing of the Tuscarora and Rose Hill formations that were exposed by the road cut at the eastern end of the Lewistown Narrows project.
August 22, 2007: WHTM TV, WHP TV, WGAL, Fox TV News, the Lewistown Sentinel and the Patriot-News joined the PennDOT team for a tour of the Lewistown Narrows project. The media help the public understand what the current traffic patterns are and what to expect when they travel through the more than six mile construction zone. That helps avoid potential accidents. Another purpose of the tours is to help the media understand how the project is progressing, so they can relay that to viewers and readers. Media tours have been annual events held prior to the first Penn State home football games. Those games are one of the biggest traffic generators through the Narrows. Click picture on right to view images.
May 2006:
The
Lewistown Narrows project won the prestigious 2006 Federal Highway
Administration/Pennsylvania Division Transportation and Historic
Preservation Excellence Award. The
award recognizes the best environmental stewardship projects in the state
and nation. It was presented
to PennDOT District 2-0, Heberling Associates, Inc., (a cultural resource
management firm), and the EADS Group, Inc. (principal design firm for the
Narrows section A09) at the seventh annual Byways to the Past Conference
at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
August 22, 2006: WHTM TV, WHP TV, WGAL and The Patriot-News met with the PennDOT team to discuss updates and traffic patterns for the Lewistown Narrows as the 2006 Penn State football season begins. Click picture on right to view slideshow of images.
March
18, 2004: Legislative and community leaders helped PennDOT launch its second
largest construction project, the $104.36 million reconstruction of 6.65
miles of Route 22/322 in the Lewistown Narrows.
“After
decades of studying ways to build a modern highway between the Shade
mountainside and the Juniata River, we are very pleased to officially
launch the reconstruction of the final section of the Narrows,” said
George M. Khoury, III, P.E., former district executive, PennDOT District 2-0.
“This third and final section of the 10-mile long Narrows reconstruction clearly is one of the most complex projects in District 2-0 and the state,” Khoury said.
January 2004: On January 16, PennDOT District 2-0 announced award of the contract to construct A09, the third and final section in the more than 10-mile improvement of the Lewistown Narrows, Route 322 in Mifflin and Juniata counties. Walsh Construction won the $104,360,592 contract, one of the largest construction contracts in the state’s history.
February 2003: PennDOT awarded the contract for the second phase of the Narrows construction project. Section A11 was the reconstruction of the Route 22/322 interchange with Business Route 22 near the eastern border of Lewistown. Dick Corporation, Pittsburgh, won the $17.7 million contract that was completed in fall 2005.
March 2002: PennDOT selected Glenn O. Hawbaker, of State College, as the contractor for the reconstruction of the Arch Rock interchange. The bid price for this first section, Section A10, of the Lewistown Narrows Project was $12.6 million. Construction got underway in April 2002 and was complete in fall 2003.