North Main Street Sidewalks Project In Yardley Extended To Spring

YARDLEY, PA —The stops and starts of Phase II of the sidewalk improvement project on North Main Street will now extend into the spring.

Borough Engineer Patrick Foley has updated the council at its past two meetings about the status of the project, which officials had hoped would be completed at the end of last year, but weather and some other obstacles have delayed its completion.

Phase II was slated to begin the first week of November, but then its start didn't happen until the following week. It was then halted due to a dispute with a resident before the project proceeded again, officials said.

Foley said the contractor, GB Construction, was working to fit in curb, sidewalk and driveway work between weather forecasts and also had resumed stormwater installation.

But the project won't get done this winter, Foley said.

Foley said that the final paving of the project cannot be done until temperatures warm in the spring so the borough would need a contract extension.

The engineer assured Councilman Matt Curtin who asked whether the extension would cost the borough additional money that it wouldn't since it's covered under the contract.

Councilman John McCann wondered if the end of Phase II could be tied into the start of Phase III, but Foley said the borough was still awaiting a determination on its grant submission with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

In early December, the borough applied for $100,000 PennDOT grant that comes with a borough match of $30,000.