TROUT RUN — A promise made and a promise kept was a reason Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Secretary Mike Carroll returned to the Lycoming County village of Trout Run on Thursday.

He promised in August 2024, after flash flooding destroyed the Route 14 bridge, that traffic would be moving again within weeks. That promise was kept by PennDOT hiring a contractor to build a temporary bridge.

Carroll also promised that PennDOT would give just as much attention to Trout Run as it did to get Interstate 95 reopened in Philadelphia after an overpass collapsed on June 11, 2023, when a tanker truck carrying gasoline caught fire beneath it.

He told local officials in Trout Run 15 months ago he would return to celebrate the opening of the new Route 14 bridge, and that is what he did Thurs

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