Demolition on Rockwell Avenue Bridge to Begin Monday

Plans to replace an unsafe bridge in North Scranton will take a big step forward next week.

Demolition is slated to begin Monday morning on the crumbling Rockwell Avenue bridge.

The Rockwell Avenue bridge was built in 1905 but it has been closed for years because it started to crumble.

PennDOT plans to tear down the current bridge and replace it.

Homeowners say the project can't be finished soon enough.

"It has been a headache for a lot of people," Eleanor Schreiber of North Scranton said.

After being closed for nearly three years, demolition is scheduled to begin Monday morning on the crumbling Rockwell Avenue bridge.

"I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled because it's long overdue," Schreiber said.

Closed in April 2012 because the bridge's stone arch started to fall apart, homeowners have been dealing with delays ever since.

"It's like torture. I don't, I don't like it at all," Daniel Navoczyneski of North Scranton said.

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Demolition on Rockwell Avenue Bridge to Begin Monday