Wood-Vine Connector Work Moves to Vine and Broad Streets

Tell me you've seen it; it's weird, but you can get used to it.
Seriously: Have you driven down Susquehanna Avenue lately?
Once you hit Vine Street, you are met with new parking lot configurations and entrances on the left, a widened Derstine and Susquehanna Avenue, and a newly-shaped municipal lot at the corner near The Reporter.
Soon, Wood and Main streets will have a stop light—that's the intersection at Molly Maguire's—and Susquehanna will be right turn only onto Main. It remains one way between Main and Derstine Avenue.
Let's talk about now—as of Thursday, construction crews from Skippack's Marino Corp. have moved to the intersection of South Broad and Vine streets, near the railroad tracks.
The firm continues work on the Wood-Vine Connector, a $3.5-million Pennsylvania Community Transportation Initiative project overseen by borough traffic engineer Pennoni Associates.
Per Lansdale Police, construction will move westbound on Vine Street toward Montgomery Avenue.
All of it is expected to be done by Oct. 25, 2013.
Thus, police have put traffic restrictions in place until then. The main one: No turns onto Vine Street from South Broad Street.
If you need to get to the post office, Lansdale Borough Hall or Lansdale Police Department, then your main route is to take Susquehanna Avenue or Green Street to Vine Street.
Access to Lansdale Police Department and Lansdale Borough Hall lots can be done from one of the existing entrance driveways on Vine Street, police said.
"We've certainly been through road challenges and we're going through them now. It's about to get very challenging," said Borough Manager Timi Kirchner Wednesday at Lansdale council's voting session.
Kirchner said Marino Corp. is moving through with some "pretty sophisticated equipment."
"They are putting in curbs, sidewalks and storm drains in. It will cause traffic problems," she said. "The police department, (utilities director) Jake Ziegler, and the contractor are all working closely together to ensure they direct cars as the move in and out of borough hall."
Kirchner requested everyone's patience with the project.
"There will be times and moments where it will be very difficult to get through," Kirchner said. 
If that's not enough, there's a closure coming on Monday on East Hancock Street until Oct. 30.
Lansdale Borough is working with Upper Gwynedd Township, the latter of which is refurbishing East Hancock beween Oakland Avenue and Dickerson Road. Oakland Avenue is between Pennbrook Avenue and Maple Street, across from the 11.5-acre Hancock Street Park.
"That will come right down in the borough and cause problems at an intersection that is already a challenge for us," Kirchner said. "We will work with crews to ensure we redirect traffic."