How to get around on Delco’s roads this week
More than 60 police departments from Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties are joining Pennsylvania State Police in a coordinated aggressivedriving enforcement wave to help reduce the number of crashes, injuries, and deaths on roadways as part of a statewide mobilization that runs through August 23, 2020.
The enforcement wave will focus on red light running, tailgating, pedestrian safety and heavy truck violations. Motorists exhibiting other aggressive actions or unsafe behaviors such as speeding or distracted driving may also be cited.
According to 2019 Pennsylvania Department of Transportation data, there were 1,546 aggressive-driving related crashes resulting in 22 fatalities in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties.
Municipal police agencies that participated in last year’s campaign made 39,141 aggressive-driving related contacts statewide, which included citing 22,353 drivers for speeding and 3,077 citations for failure to stop for red lights and stop signs.
The aggressive-driving enforcement is a part of the Pennsylvania Aggressive Driving Enforcement and Education Project, and is funded by PennDOT and the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration.
PennDOT is also seeking motorists’ input this month on traffic safety and driving behaviors through its annual online Highway Safety Survey found at PennDOT. gov/Safety.
“Safety is our top priority and we value continued public engagement in making our roadways safer,” said PennDOT Secretary Yassmin Gramian in a release. “The results from this annual survey help us gauge participants’ attitudes on highway safety, and potentially allow us to adjust our safety activities so we can further reduce crashes and fatalities.”
The survey is available on PennDOT’s website through August 17 and should take about five minutes to complete. All responses, including the “comments” fields, are anonymous.
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Interstate 95 motorists will encounter nighttime double lane closures next week at various locations between the U.S. 322 Interchange and the Delaware state line for construction activities under a project to rehabilitate pavement and repair 15 structures on more than 11 miles of the interstate in Lower Chichester, Upper Chichester, Chester, Ridley, Tinicum, Chester, Upland and Ridley.
The work schedule is:
• Monday, August 3, through Friday, August 7, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., a double lane closure is scheduled on southbound I-95 for line striping; and
•Monday, August 3, through Friday, August 7, from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., a double lane closure is scheduled on northbound I-95 for bridge deck repair and joint cleaning and sealing.
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A single lane closure will be in place on westbound Governor Printz Boulevard between Bartram Avenue and Stevens Drive in Tinicum on Monday, August
3, through Friday, August
7, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for drilling and boring operations.
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Conchester Highway in Concord will be reduced to a single lane with flaggers on Monday, August
3, through Friday, August
7, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at various locations between Baltimore Pike and Foulk Road as crews place westbound traffic onto the new westbound pavement and prepare a center-area work zone, marking completion
of westbound widening and the start of the Section
101 project’s final stage to rebuild the center area of the roadway.
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PECO Energy is planning to close Sproul Road Mondays through Saturdays between Darby Road and Marple Road in Marple on Saturday, August 1, through September from 9 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. for utility installation.
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Periodic lane and shoulder closures will be in place at several locations along northbound Interstate 95 in Philadelphia and Delaware counties on Monday, August 3, through Thursday, August 6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for surveying operations related to the placement and upgrade of Intelligent Transportation Systems equipment along the
I-95 corridor.
The surveying locations are:
• Northbound I-95 between the Route 291 and Route 611/Broad Street interchanges;
• Northbound I-95 between the Interstate 476 and Ridley Park interchanges;
• Northbound I-95 ramp to northbound I-476; and
• Northbound I-95 ramp to Route 63 (Woodhaven Road).
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PECO Energy is planning weekday lane closures on several state highways in Delaware County for utility construction.
The work schedule is:
• Monday, August 3, through Friday, August 7, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., on West Chester Pike between Lynn Boulevard and Township Line Road in Upper Darby;
• Monday, August 3, through Friday, August 7, from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Baltimore Pike between Darlington Road and Valley Road in Chester Heights; and
• August 3, through Friday, August 28, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Lancaster Avenue between Airedale Road and County Line Road in Radnor.
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For information on projects occurring or being bid this year, those made possible by or accelerated by Act
89, or those on the department’s Four and Twelve Year Plans, visit www.projects. penndot.gov