State Approves $20K For Northampton Traffic Signal Improvements

Governor Tom Wolf announced Monday that 109 municipalities, including several in Bucks County, will receive $12 million to underwrite the costs of upgrading traffic signals under the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s “Green Light-Go” program.

Northampton Township will receive $20,880 to replace existing loops with video detection and upgrade pedestrian signals to countdown pedestrian signals at the intersection of Holland Road and Middle Holland Road/Upper Holland Road.

Made possible by Act 89, the state’s transportation funding plan, the program establishes partnership agreements between municipalities and PennDOT through which municipalities request up to 50-percent funding for traffic-signal projects, according to Wolf's office.

“State and local partnerships like this are critical to improving traffic flow and safety across the state, and this program helps us meet that goal,” Governor Wolf said in a statement. “Through this investment, communities across the state will benefit from upgraded signals and intersections.”

Under the Green Light-Go program, PennDOT said that projects on corridors with fewer than 10,000 vehicles per day will be managed by the municipality, while PennDOT will manage any project with signals on corridors that have greater than 10,000 vehicles per day.

Both types of projects will require a 50 percent match from the municipality.

The following additional Bucks County municipalities will receive funding:

• Bristol Township — $144,626 to update the traffic signal at the intersection of Route 2029 (Bristol-Oxford Valley Road), Route 2049 (Bath Road) and Lakeland Road.
• Bristol Township — $174,292 to upgrade the traffic signal at the intersection of Route 2051 (Oxford Valley Road/Levittown Parkway) and Route 2006 (New Falls Road).
• Falls Township — $154,654 to upgrade the traffic signal at the intersection of Route 2051 (Levittown Parkway) and Mill Creek Parkway.
• Middletown Township — $290,360 to install an adaptive traffic signal system at 15 intersections that adjusts signal timing based on traffic conditions along Lincoln Highway from the intersection with Interstate 95 Ramps to Oxford Valley Road.
• Penndel Borough — $12,580 for controller and pavement marking improvements at the intersections of Lincoln Highway and Durham Road, Lincoln Highway and Bellevue Avenue, and Lincoln Highway and Hulmeville Avenue.
• Richland Borough — $38,295 to improve traffic signal retiming at the intersections of Route 309 (South West End Boulevard) and W. Pumping Station Rd, and Route 309 (South West End Boulevard) and Tollgate Road.