PennDOT Completes Marked Bicycle Lanes on Three Routes in Southeastern Pennsylvania

PennDOT Completes Marked Bicycle Lanes on Three Routes in Southeastern
Pennsylvania

12/8/2017-COATESVILLE

In its ongoing effort to enhance the bicycle experience across the state,
the
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) has completed new
bicycle
lanes on three suburban state highways in the Philadelphia region, PennDOT
Secretary Leslie S. Richards said today.

The pilot program will help determine long-term maintenance cost data for
such
bicycle facilities which, along with the Wolf Administration's PennDOT
Connects
initiative to reach out to communities and partners earlier in project
planning, will help evaluate bicycle accommodations where planning efforts
indicate such needs.

"This initiative reflects our new PennDOT Connects program, which we're
using
to reach out more to our communities and partners and considering many
viewpoints right from the start of planning for transportation projects,"
Richards said, joining other officials at an event at the Thorndale
commuter
rail station. "While maintaining the highway and bridge networks is a
crucial
part of our mission, it is not the only part. We want to consider and
enhance
the other modes, be it commuter rail, served by this station here, other
forms
of public transit and those who chose to bicycle or walk."

The locations are:

• In Chester County, two miles along Business. U.S. 30 (Lincoln Highway)
between Diamond Street at the City of Coatesville/Caln Township line and
Hazelwood Road (at SEPTA's Thorndale Train Station) in Caln Township. The
new
bicycle lanes tie into the existing bicycle lanes that have been in place
on
Business U.S. 30 starting at the Diamond Street intersection and proceeding

west to 2nd Avenue in Coatesville.

• In Delaware County, about 2.2 miles along Route 320 (Sproul Road/Chester
Road) between Route 420 (Woodland Avenue) in Springfield Township and
College
Avenue in Swarthmore Borough, Delaware County.

• In Montgomery County, about a third of a mile along Route 663 (King
Street)
between Route 100 and Manatawny Street in Pottstown. Route 663 was
resurfaced
by PennDOT this past summer and bicycle lanes were implemented as part of a

road diet.

PennDOT replaced traffic lines and painted new bicycle lanes and legends on

Business U.S. 30 and Route 320 under a department paving contract this
fall.
The operation began in October and the bicycle-lane work on both roads was
recently completed. The cost estimate for installing bicycle lanes on the
three
state highways is $127,000.

These three state roads were chosen for the pilot program by the Southeast
Pennsylvania Suburban Bike Lanes Working Group, which consists of the
Bicycle
Coalition of Philadelphia, PennDOT, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning
Commission and the suburban county planning commissions.

As part of a series of improvements for bicyclists, PennDOT earlier this
year
issued a policy change removing the Bicycle Occupancy Permit from its
design
manual. Moving forward, local governments need only provide a letter of
request
for the proposed bicycle lane that includes the necessary information for
PennDOT to appropriately evaluate the request. After a review, a letter of
approval will be issued by the department. This replaces the previous
requirement for a formal agreement between PennDOT and the municipality.

For more information on projects occurring or being bid this year, those
made
possible by or accelerated by the state transportation funding plan (Act
89),
or those on the department's Four and Twelve Year Plans, visit
www.projects.penndot.gov.

Motorists can check conditions on more than 40,000 roadway miles, including

color-coded winter conditions on 2,900 miles, by visiting www.511PA.com.
511PA,
which is free and available 24 hours a day, provides traffic delay
warnings,
weather forecasts, traffic speed information, and access to more than 850
traffic cameras.

511PA is also available through a smartphone application for iPhone and
Android
devices, by calling 5-1-1, or by following regional twitter alerts
accessible
on the 511PA website.

For more PennDOT information, visit www.penndot.gov. Follow Local PennDOT
Information on Twitter at www.twitter.com/511PAPhilly, and follow the
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