PennDOT

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation tore the historic Skinners Falls Bridge down in April. Now, residents from both communities are fighting to preserve its story.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) demolished half of the historic Skinners Falls Bridge on Thursday, April 17.

A court order to protect the Skinners Falls Bridge was denied in federal court last night.

Together with continuing projects, the transportation agency has more than $1 billion in work scheduled for the six-county region.

Court order protects Skinners Falls Bridge for another day, but engineers call for its demolition to protect human lives at Friday’s federal hearing in Scranton.

Luzerne County Manager Romilda Crocamo said a recent inspection of the span revealed 'advanced deterioration of load carrying members.'

The Skinner Falls Bridge stands another day, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT).

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) will start tearing down the historic Skinners Falls Bridge on Wednesday, Feb. 26.

Plan should be complete by 2028, when Amtrak hoped the service might begin.

When PennDOT was researching cost effective ways to replace the two bridges that carry Interstates 84 and 380, they discovered an old, out-of-use railroad bridge beneath the highway. By this spring or early summer that E&WV bridge will be repurposed again into a small section of an over 3-mile hiking trail maintained by Lackawanna County.