Politics & Government

PCTI Streetscape Project Underway in Lansdale

The Pennsylvania Community Transportation Initiative project to provide commuters a thoroughfare from Broad and Vine streets to Wood and Main streets will be completed by Summer 2014.

Traffic is a bit gnarly in Lansdale as of late, especially around Lansdale Library and Susquehanna and Derstine avenues.

The culprit: the PCTI Wood-Vine Connector Project is underway.

The Wood-Vine Connector is Lansdale's PCTI streetscape project that looks to take drivers around Broad and Main—and the SEPTA tracks—via a non-stop thoroughfare from Vine and Broad streets to Wood and Main streets. At Wood and Main, drivers would encounter a four-way traffic light—this light will be the one relocated from Susquehanna Avenue and Main Street. Susquehanna would then become right-turn only at Main Street.

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"You've all noticed work from Broad and Vine to Wood has started," said public works director Jake Ziegler at this month's Public Works Committee meeting. "The contractor has been working ... on the storm sewer."

Ziegler said it was "hard to say" exactly what the timeframe is for the project.

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"The contractor, because of approvals and all that, couldn't get started until now," Ziegler said. "Work will be going on throughout the fall and probably into the winter, if the weather holds."

Ziegler said paving work won't be done until Spring/Summer 2014.

"In all likelihood," Ziegler said, "the project will be finished up around this time next year."


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