PennDOT to hold Neighborhood Workshops
PennDOT will hold a series of workshops to engage Somerton residents in further developing a comprehensive transportation solution for the community. The agency has a new vision called Community Connections. The alternative is smaller in scale, lower in cost and would have less impact than any it had developed before. The idea arose in response to citizen concerns about previous alternatives for the Woodhaven Road Project.
Community Connections was conceived with the thought that transportation improvements in Somerton should address only local needs. In the past, residents expressed concern that previously considered alternatives to address regional traffic mobility would attract unwanted traffic and cause unwanted impacts in the community.
Targeted workshops will allow local residents and business owners to review displays and focus on issues important to individual neighborhoods. Participants will be invited to suggest new street and sidewalk connections that will benefit neighborhood circulation, along with other related community enhancements, including recreational walking and bicycling paths, landscaping, new local street connections, and enhancements to support bus ridership along Byberry Road, including shelters and benches at bus stops.
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