Route 101 & 102


Catenary Structure Painting

P1-13

What's Happening

  • 09-10

  • Change order for West Chester Yard Pole Painting and Anti-Gravity Coating of 40 Foundations on Routes 101 & 102 started on September 01, 2010.

    Change order was completed on September 13, 2010.

  • 08-10

  • Pole Painting passed Adhesion Test.

    All Primer Coat Work is complete.

    Project was completed on August 26, 2010.

  • 06-10

  • Buttonwood is approximately 68% completed with physical construction.

    Coordination with PECO for power outages on their aerial attachments on certain of our structures has been impacted by the storm of June 24th.

    Outage #4, for the entire Media-Sharon Hill Line, started.

  • 05-10

  • Buttonwood restarted cleaning & coating work again after PECO protection work was confirmed.

  • 04-10

  • Buttonwood continues cleaning and recoating east of Woodland Station in Outage #3.

  • 03-10

  • Buttonwood remobilized at the west end of the 101 private ROW at Bowling Green and began recoating operations going east.

  • 02-10

  • Buttonwood remains demobilized due to the winter weather. Physical construction remains at 30% completed.

  • 01-10

  • Buttonwood has completed hardware installation within Outage #2 and has demobilized its work force. Recoating will take place when weather conditions are more favorable.

  • 12-09

  • Contractor began hardware installation on the poles within Outage #2, on the 101 Line from Woodland to Bowling Green.

  • 11-09

  • Contractor still has the street pole extensions to clean and coat in Aldan Boro during Outage #1 on the 102 Line. This work is scheduled to start November 30th without PECO support.

  • 10-09

  • Contractor continues working during the 102 outage with 2 crews as weather permits. The trolley poles in Aldan Borough required PECO coordination due to their attachments.

  • 09-09

  • Contractor mobilized for work and is making good progress using 2 crews.

  • 08-09

  • Contractor preparing to start work on the 102 portion with the line outage starting Tuesday, September 8th.

  • 07-09

  • Initial job progress meeting was held with Buttonwood.

    Some submittals have been made. Process is on-going.

    Contractor has indicated that majority of his field work will be done during the 4 track outages, the first starting on September 8th from DHJ to Sharon Hill.

  • 06-09

  • Pre-construction meeting was held and NTP issued on the same day.

  • 05-09

  • SEPTA Board approved the award of this contract to Buttonwood.

  • 04-09

  • Bids were received and Buttonwood Company, Inc. is the apparent low bidder @ $537,500, which is under the Engineer's estimate.

  • 03-09

  • Pre-bid meeting was held.

Photos