Long Island Rail Road crews were hard at work on Friday night, October 5, through Tuesday morning, October 9, replacing the Buckram Road Bridge in Locust Valley, which carries the railroad’s Oyster Bay Branch over Buckram Road/Oyster Bay Road between the Locust Valley and Oyster Bay stations. The project improves…
Between October 5 through October 9, LIRR road crews replaced Buckram Road Bridge.
The Buckram Road Bridge, built in 1889, is located in the Hamlet of Locust Valley in the Town of Oyster Bay on the Oyster Bay Branch. The LIRR is currently replacing the existing steel three span bridge with a new single span steel bridge. The bridge’s vertical clearance will be raised to 14 feet, meeting the NYSDOT standard. The reduction in the number of spans will help to reduce overall maintenance costs. This low-hanging bridge is the site of many accidents caused by trucks striking the bridge, resulting in train delays in both directions. In 2017, there were 5 strikes to this bridge, demonstrating the need to improve the bridge’s safety and reliability for both vehicles and LIRR passengers.
The new bridge’s height clearance will allow trucks to safely pass underneath. In addition to raising the bridge height, work will include raising the track elevation to allow for additional clearance under the new bridge, constructing associated retaining walls, relocating utility lines and cables for the removal of the existing bridge, removal of the existing bridge, re-profiling and re-surfacing of the track to meet the new vertical height of bridge, and clearing and grubbing along the right-of-way for temporary LIRR and PSEG – LI relocations. Construction of this bridge replacement began in May 2017 and is anticipated to be completed in December 2018.
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Chris DiLollo, 33, grew up in Locust Valley, N.Y. His wife, Tara, 31, attended Locust Valley High School. They shopped for houses on the North Shore of Long Island, from Glen Head to Huntington, but when they decided to start a family, Locust Valley’s stellar school district and quiet streets…