Mon/Fayette Expressway / Uniontown to Brownsville Project
Update for First Quarter of 2008

PHASE 1 CONSTRUCTION

Five sections of construction of the eastern portion of the Uniontown to Brownsville project began in the spring of 2006. An additional Phase 1 section to construct the Mainline Toll Facility, which will be located near Old Royal Road just across the Redstone Township line from Menallen Township, was initiated in the Spring of 2007. This portion of the project has been designated as Phase 1 with an anticipated completion date of late fall, 2008. 

Phase 1 construction, bid at $193 million including the Mainline Toll Facility, will bring the expressway northwest from Pa. Routes 51 and 119 near Uniontown to the U.S. Route 40 "stub" (about nine miles) via a new connector road known as Redstone Way east of Brownsville. The opening of Phase 1, anticipated in late 2008, will create a viable link to the California Toll Road via downtown Brownsville and the Lane Bane Bridge.

PHASE 2 CONSTRUCTION

As funding has become available, five additional sections of construction of the western portion of the project and one final section of the eastern portion, which will complete the interchange with State Route 119, will be bid in early to mid 2008. This portion of the project has been designated as Phase 2 with an anticipated completion date of late 2011.

Phase 2 construction, estimated at $365 million, will extend the Mon/Fayette mainline from the phase 1 northern limit, under Pa. Route 166 north of Allison village and swing it around Brownsville to the south and west to a new bridge over the Monongahela River just north of Vesta No. 6. On the Washington County side of the river in Centerville, the mainline would connect to the divided highway section of Pa. Route 88 and an interchange would provide access to Route 88 South and Old Route 88. Pa. Route 88 will be reconstructed from the Rte. 88 Interchange northward to the Route 40 Cloverleaf Interchange. The construction of Phase 2 will begin in the spring of 2008.

Total project costs – including preliminary engineering, environmental impact studies, final design, utility relocations, right-of-way acquisition and construction – will exceed $800 million. To date, approximately $32 million in federal highway money has been committed to the project.

Click on the link below to learn more about the status of the Uniontown to Brownsville project.

http://www.mfe-union-to-brown.com/status.htm