Major Downtown Repaving Project Set To Begin Monday In Doylestown

DOYLESTOWN BOROUGH, PA — A long-awaited PennDOT milling and repaving project is scheduled to begin on Monday, July 22 in the heart of Doylestown Borough.

For three days, two blocks of West State Street are slated to be closed and detoured between Main Street and Five Points, borough officials announced at the July borough council meeting.

That section of West State is home to a significant number of restaurants and businesses including the Doylestown Hotel, 86 West, Paganini, Domani Star, the Penn Taproom, among others.

“State Street will be shut down for three days and it’s going to have a significant impact,” said deputy borough manager Phil Ehlinger. “We have done significant outreach to the businesses and have given them advance notice. PennDOT will be milling it on Monday and paving it on Tuesday
and doing crack sealing on Wednesday.”

The borough’s public works department will follow through with line painting on Wednesday, according to Ehlinger. “We’re going to try to be as fast as possible to get that street back open,” he said.

Borough manager John Davis credited State Senator Steve Santarsiero and State Rep. Tim Brennan for lobbying hard and holding "PennDOT's feet to the fire" to get those two blocks of state highway paved.“It’s a long time coming. We worked really hard," he said.

With that said, Davis added, “On Thursday, we’ll start bugging PennDOT about the rest of State Street.

“We’re not satisfied and we’re not stopping with those blocks,” he said. “There are lengthy sections of East and West State Street that still need attention and we’ll keep working until all of State Street is done.”

Ehlinger also reported that starting on Monday, July 22 the borough will be repaving four streets as part of the borough's 2024 road repaving program. Those streets include West Court between Lafayette and Memorial, the full length of Lafayette, West Oakland between Clinton and Franklin, and a half lane of Lincoln.

The final round of borough roads to be paved include East Court between Broad and Main, Lacey Avenue north to Church, and Broad Street between Union and Doyle.

That will complete the 2024 paving schedule, which Ehlinger said has included “a significant batch of roads.”