The Sanatoga Post

SANATOGA PA – Authors of a study that may suggest tolling drivers on U.S. Route 422, and using that money to improve the highway and reduce its congestion, “are not making their case well enough in the court of public opinion,” says a former journalist who now serves on the Spring City PA borough council. [...]

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SANATOGA PA – William R. Gift Co., a Boyertown fuel distributor, won Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township‘s business Monday (Oct. 4, 2010) for its purchase of diesel fuel during 2011, the Board of Commissioners unanimously agreed, assuming legal documents for the fuel sale are approved by township Solicitor R. Kurtz Holloway. Gift was the lowest acceptable [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Tracking the local expenditure of federal economic stimulus funds isn’t something that happens over a weekend, a week, or even a couple of months. The Sanatoga Post, which is a veteran member of the national ProPublica reporting network,  has been tracking stimulus grant spending and its effects for the past 15 months. [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – An online poll being used to measure public sentiment about highway traffic congestion in Montgomery County PA and across the Delaware Valley, and to gather opinions on funding sources to pay for relieving that congestion, is being conducted by the Harrisburg PA-based Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, TriCounty Area Chamber of [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Platinum-level recognition, the highest in the first annual sustainability awards recently presented by the Greater Valley Forge Transportation Management Association to companies that provide and promote commuting alternatives for their employees and community, has been won by Traffic Planning and Design Inc. of Sanatoga PA. Among others receiving the award was the [...]

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SANATOGA PA – As if we needed a reminder of what’s due from Mother Nature in the months ahead, Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township last week announced – as it does every year – that it would look to sign contractors for their help in clearing streets and roads of snow and ice during the winter. [...]

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KING OF PRUSSIA PA – Mission accomplished, or at least one part of it. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) office in King of Prussia officially declared itself done Monday (Sept. 13, 2010) with 4-1/2 miles of U.S. Route 422 rehabilitation between its Route 29 (Collegeville-Phoenixville) and Royersford interchanges, paid for by $13.2 million in [...]

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PHILADELPHIA PA – Advocates for the U.S. Route 422 Master Plan, apparently having felt like they’ve endured undue lumps from the press and the public, are taking the offensive to better define what the plan is … and isn’t. It IS, they say, a series of strategies to reduce traffic congestion, expand transportation choices, and [...]

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SANATOGA PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation hears more than its share of complaints, and rarely gets an “atta boy” for its successes. Time to change that, Scott Exley figures. Exley, president of Bursich Associates – Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township‘s engineering firm – observed Tuesday (Sept. 7, 2010) to the Board of Commissioners that [...]

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TRAFFIC FLOWS FREELY ON FIRST DAY – The East High Street bridge crossing Sanatoga Creek between Sanatoga Road and Allison Drive in Pottstown PA re-opened Monday (Aug. 30, 2010), with no fanfare and 77 days after its initial closing on June 14. The formerly crumbling stone arch bridge has been substantially rebuilt by a Pennsylvania [...]

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