EAST COVENTRY PA – An East Coventry (PA) Township supervisor, who opposes imposing driver tolls on U.S. Route 422, offered this unsolicited advice Wednesday (July 14, 2010) for Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Vice President Bruce Foltz and his colleagues: be cautious.

Municipalities that vote to endorse the 422 Corridor Master Plan “are, indeed … endorsing a toll,” elected East Coventry Supervisor Michael Albert Moyer wrote in comments appended to a Sanatoga Post article published Monday (July 12). The story reported on action last week in Lower Pottsgrove, during a commissioners’ meeting over which Foltz presided, to table a resolution that supported the master plan until they understood its implications regarding the potential of tolls on the highway.

• Read Moyer’s entire commentary here.
• Similar comments also are made by Moyer in a letter to the editor published in print today (Thursday, June 15) by The (Pottstown PA) Mercury newspaper.

Moyer, who like the commissioners is a public official elected to help govern affairs of his township, on Monday joined fellow Supervisor W. Atlee Rinehart in voting against East Coventry’s approval of the master plan. Two other supervisors favored acceptance, but because the board chairman was unavailable to cast a tie-breaking vote the matter “died at the table,” according to Rinehart.

It is uncertain whether the East Coventry board will attempt passage of the master plan resolution during a later meeting, Rinehart said.

A similar resolution may re-surface on Lower Pottsgrove’s agenda as early as its July 22 meeting, township Manager Rodney Hawthorne indicated last week. Commissioners said they would await more information before issuing a decision on the master plan.

In his comments, some of which were directed to Foltz by name, Moyer claimed municipalities that embraced the master plan were providing it with “the imprimatur of legitimacy from the local folks,” while accepting on faith that proceeds from tolls, if levied, would be used to make repairs and upgrades on 422. “Jesus, I accept on faith,” Moyer wrote. “The word of government and governmental agencies, not so much.”

Related (to U.S. Route 422 Corridor planning):

• Understand 422 Plan Endorsement, Lower Pottsgrove Advised
• Lower Pottsgrove Holds On 422 Plan Endorsement
• Engineers Claim PA Roads Worse Now Than In 2006
• Tuesday Session Tackles Funding For 422 And Elsewhere
• Tolls, Lower Pottsgrove Station Part Of 422 Plan
• Pending Decision May Affect Route 422 Projects
• Last Day For Your Say On Route 422 Plan
• Notebook Worthy (Aug. 24, 2009)
• Consultants Express Interest In Studying 422
• Don’t Like 422 Tolling? Website Wants Your Alternative
• Truckers Alerted On Highway Partnerships Bill
• In 422 Debate, Time A Hindrance And Help
• Notebook Worthy (June 29, 2009)
• Growth, Planners Say, Is 422’s Growing Problem
• Tech Used To Draw For 422 Meetings
• Route 422 Toll Meetings Next Week
• 422 Repairs, Delays Start Tuesday
• 422 Proposal, Like Traffic, Creeps Ahead
• Got A Route 422 Idea? Time To Air It
• Train Service On The Front Burner Once More

Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ meeting of July 6):

• Understand 422 Plan Endorsement, Lower Pottsgrove Advised
• Lower Pottsgrove Holds On 422 Plan Endorsement
• Cost of Fixing Parts Of 4 Streets? $46,000
• Before Demise, Limerick Homes Get Firefighters’ Farewell
• Final Words On Ringing Rocks: Okey-Dokey
• What Stinks? Unhappy Residents’ Uncollected Garbage
• Township Tax Collection Continues Up Over ’09
• Three Topics Cited In Township Exec Session
• Lower Pottsgrove Meeting Starts Early Tonight

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