Posted on 06 April 2012. Tags: Acting Chief Michael Foltz, Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Lower Pottsgrove Police Department, Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge
State troopers and Lower Pottsgrove police are cooperating to enforce weight and stop sign restrictions at Pruss Hill Road bridge on the township’s east side. The result: one big payoff, and several smaller ones. The message: obey the law when driving across the span.
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Posted in Courts, Lower Pottsgrove, Police, Safety, Sanatoga, Transportation
Posted on 15 December 2011. Tags: Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge
The highway, previously closed because of a structurally unsound bridge, was opened to traffic Wednesday, but with restrictions and limits.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 21 November 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge, Traffic Planning and Design Inc.
Lower Pottsgrove commissioners voted in late October to repair the bridge and re-open it to restricted traffic. The work was estimated to take about a month, but that deadline is only days away and progress on the repairs appears to be limited.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 25 October 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Manager Rodney Hawthorne, Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge, Traffic Planning and Design Inc.
A 5-ton weight limit and single-lane passage for both directions are among the restrictions that will be put on traffic crossing the Pruss Hill Road bridge when it reopens, probably next month.
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Posted in Business, Lower Pottsgrove, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 05 October 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Lower Pottsgrove Highway Department, Manager Rodney Hawthorne, Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge
To casual observers, Pruss Hill Road and its bridge over Sanatoga Creek present a picturesque, serene, bucolic scene. Beneath the bridge, however, and not readily apparent to the public, lie structural problems that caused it to be closed nearly three weeks ago.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Police, Real Estate, Safety, Sanatoga, Transportation
Posted on 04 October 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Lower Pottsgrove Highway Department, Manager Rodney Hawthorne, Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge
The now-blocked bridge on Pruss Hill Road, considered unsafe and closed on Sept. 16, could possibly be re-opened under weight limits if Lower Pottsgrove engineers agree it could tolerate the loads, township commissioners were told Monday.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Police, Safety, Sanatoga, Transportation
Posted on 30 September 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Lower Pottsgrove Highway Department, Manager Rodney Hawthorne, Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge
Pruss Hill Road in Lower Pottsgrove, between North Pleasant View and Schaeffer roads, has been closed for two weeks. Until repairs are made to Pruss Hill’s unsafe bridge – and that date hasn’t yet been specified – it will stay closed, according to the township.
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Posted in Fire, Lower Pottsgrove, Montgomery County, Pottsgrove Schools, Pottstown, Safety, Transportation, Weather
Posted on 22 August 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Pruss Hill Road, Pruss Hill Road bridge
Traffic experts will be paid $7,500 by Lower Pottsgrove for their advice on how to make the dangerous curves and hill on Pruss Hill Road more accident-free.
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Posted in Business, Lower Pottsgrove, Police, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 14 June 2011. Tags: Pruss Hill Road, re-paving, road closures, Rupert Road
Road re-surfacing work is being done on portions of Rupert and Pruss Hill roads in Lower Pottsgrove through Wednesday. Drivers, beware.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Safety, Transportation
Posted on 03 May 2011. Tags: Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners, Lower Pottsgrove Police Department, Pruss Hill Road
The latest accident on Pruss Hill Road has prompted Lower Pottsgrove commissioners to do something to slow down speeding drivers at the mid-point of the two-mile highway.
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Posted in Lower Pottsgrove, Police, Safety, Transportation