Now approved, the zone will be 100 feet long.
POTTSTOWN PA – Lower Pottsgrove police won’t be issuing tickets to parking violators on North Adams Street today (Friday, Nov. 19, 2010), and maybe not even for the next couple of weeks, but the time will come soon when officers begin tagging cars found parked on the street within 100 feet of its intersection with Buchert Road.
The township Board of Commissioners on Thursday (Nov. 18) unanimously adopted a law that prohibits parking on either side of that section of the street.
A traffic study conducted during October, which started after a North Adams resident complained about problems maneuvering around cars parked there, showed vehicles stationed within the zone present a potential traffic hazard that could be avoided by eliminating parking, township Manager Rodney Hawthorne said.
The law officially took effect the minute it was signed by commission President Jonathan Spadt. As a practical matter, though, it won’t be enforced until appropriate no-parking signs can be erected. “That may be next week, maybe two weeks,” Hawthorne added.
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I’ll raise it one last time. This and other streets adjacent to the High School serve as extension lots for the school. Those not authorized to park in the lot park on the streets in the neighborhoods and walk that last stretch. Perhaps expanding the High School lots may be in order.
This is going to simply aggravate the situation elswheres not address the real problem.
Ed, I don’t agree. North Adams runs parallel to Kauffman Road, and the portion in question really isn’t near enough to the school to be affected as you suggest. The real problem in this particular area, as I understand it, is neighbors parking along the street at their convenience. While the problem you define at the high school may exist, I don’t see it as in play here. Thanks for commenting.