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PENNDOT's Proposed
Actions Won't Help Somerton's Congestion --- Only Create a Local Road Network
to Serve Truck Traffic |
1 | PENNDOT
would modify the Route 1 Cloverleaf by opening up ramps, and linking Horning Road
to the new extension |
2 | PENNDOT
would extend the Expressway west into Somerton via a 2-lane Parkway-Type Road
(means that it has landscaping) |
3 | PENNDOT
would replace the CSX Bridge, remove the 3-ton weight limit, which would allow
tractor-trailer trucks onto new extension |
4 | PENNDOT
would cul-de-sac Byberry Road, cutting it off from either side of the Bridge,
and making school children's walk to MaST Charter School very dangerous |
5 | PENNDOT
would extend Worthington Road to connect with new extension, giving additional
traffic access to Worthington Road and Southampton Road neighborhoods |
6 | PENNDOT
would tie the new extension into Sewell Avenue and Stevens Road, directing additional
traffic into those neighborhoods as well, and creating a new shortcut to the Home
Depot at Leo Mall in the process |
7 | PENNDOT
would end the extension onto Bustleton Avenue near the Home Depot-Leo Mall at
their new traffic light, which would dump additional traffic volumes onto the
already congested Bustleton Avenue corridor |
Note: | 2
Blue stars indicate the location of Ephraim Goldstein Apts. and Arthur and Estelle
Sidewater House, the 2 senior citizen's apartment buildings that are located right
next to the path of the new extension |
