Answering frequently asked questions about the current study of U.S. Route 422, and its related potential for tolling, is the goal of four videos released Monday at the 422plus Project website.
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422 Questions Answered, For Your Viewing Pleasure
Posted on 09 November 2010.
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In 422 Tolling, Planners Say, Studying Doesn’t Make It So
Posted on 05 November 2010.
Tolling U.S. Route 422 remains only an option under study by a Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission committee, the agency explained Wednesday, in a press release unusual for both its length and tone.
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Keim Street Bridge To Be Closed At Least 8 Weeks
Posted on 20 October 2010.
The aging steel span across the Schuylkill River was closed to traffic six days ago as unsafe. Montgomery County estimates it will take about two months to know what to fix, and how much it will cost.
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Last Day For Your Say On Route 422 Draft
Posted on 30 November 2009.
PHILADELPHIA PA – Today (Monday, Nov. 30, 2009) is the last day available for public comment on the draft executive summary of a report likely to affect the future of the 25-mile-long U.S. Route 422 corridor between King of Prussia PA and Reading PA, and its tens of thousands of residents. Read the 66-page draft [...]
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Isolating Report's Look At Lower Pottsgrove
Posted on 30 November 2009.
PHILADELPHIA PA – Based on facts cited, statistics compiled, and evidence mounted, the authors of a “U.S. 422 Corridor Master Plan Summary Report” conclude the current pace of development along the four-lane limited-access highway between King of Prussia PA and Reading PA is unsustainable at best, and dangerous at worst. Read a companion story titled [...]
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The Goal For Saturday: No Local Traffic Deaths
Posted on 07 October 2009.
PHILADELPHIA PA – For motorists on U.S. Route 422; on the parallel Ridge Pike or PA Route 724; on intersecting Routes 29 and 100, or on any other highway in the Greater Pottstown region, Barry Seymour offers eight words of advice: “Drive as if your life depends on it.” Seymour, executive director of the Delaware [...]
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New Forum Tackles Economic Development
Posted on 16 September 2009.
PHILADELPHIA PA – The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC), whose proposals for improving local transportation include the prospect of turning U.S. Route 422 into a toll road, last week announced it had created a new entity to promote and discuss community and economic development. The agency’s Regional Community and Economic Development Forum will meet [...]
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Consultants Express Interest In Studying Route 422
Posted on 18 August 2009.
PHILADELPHIA PA – Planning for the future of the U.S. Route 422 corridor between King of Prussia PA and Reading PA continued Friday (Aug. 14, 2009), with a scheduled meeting on Independence Mall of consultants and experts who said they wanted to help determine what happens with the highway during the next 20 years. The [...]
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Don't Like 422 Tolling? Website Wants Your Alternative
Posted on 11 August 2009.
KING OF PRUSSIA PA – 422Corridor.com, a website established in late May to help prompt discussion about the future of U.S. Route 422 between King of Prussia and Reading, has gotten plenty of comments over the prospect of imposing tolls to pay for upgrading the highway and transit options there. What it’s hoping for now [...]
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Truckers Alerted On Highway Partnerships Bill
Posted on 28 July 2009.
HARRISBURG PA – Lower Pottsgrove‘s state Sen. John Rafferty, the Pennsylvania legislator whose proposed bill might someday make it feasible to impose vehicle tolls on U.S. Route 422, has raised the ire of a Missouri-based truckers’ lobbying group. The Owner-Operators Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), representing 160,000 independent truck owner-operators and professional drivers in the U.S. [...]
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