The Sanatoga Post

SANATOGA PA – The currently closed East High Street bridge crossing Sanatoga Creek will be open for vehicular traffic by Aug. 30 (2010; Monday), Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials have promised. But there’s “open,” and then there’s “really open,” and then there’s “completed.” Those three definitions probably will be fulfilled on different dates during the [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – CMD Transportation Services, which provides busing for Pottsgrove School District students – as well as students who live within the district but who attend private schools – has finally released its daily bus schedules for the 2010-2011 school year. Schedules are available to be downloaded now from the district website as Microsoft [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – A car wash to benefit the Pottsgrove High School marching band will be held today (Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Lower Pottsgrove Elementary School, 1329 Buchert Rd., Pottstown PA. A donation of $5 per car is requested. This event has been added to The Post calendar. [...]

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POTTSTOWN PA – The bus schedules are coming. Pottsgrove School District bus schedules for the 2010-2011 school year really are coming, district Business Administrator David Nester promises … they’re just not ready yet. Once the buses roll, though, parents also should be aware their students will be on the district’s version of Candid Camera. A [...]

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WHERE ARE WE AT? – At the request Monday (Aug. 2, 2010) of the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners, the township engineering firm of Bursich Associates will attempt to learn from the state Department of Transportation about progress in reconstruction of the East High Street Bridge crossing Sanatoga Creek at Sanatoga Road. The [...]

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SANATOGA PA – Roadway shoulder work along U.S. Route 422′s westbound lanes between the Sanatoga and Royersford interchanges will cause traffic there to be slowed from Tuesday through Thursday (Aug. 3-5, 2010) between 9 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., the Greater Valley Forge Transportation Management Association (GVFTMA) reported Monday (Aug. 2, 2010) on its 422Improvements.com website. [...]

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HARRISBURG PA – A proposal made Friday (July 30, 2010) to rebuild a bridge across the Delaware River between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the cost of which would be financed by collecting tolls under a public-private partnership, may offer residents of the U.S. Route 422 Corridor a glimpse into how a similar collaboration – if [...]

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UPPER MERION PA – Supervisors in Upper Merion (PA) Township last week (July 22, 2010) voted unanimously to endorse the U.S. Route 422 master plan for land use and transportation study purposes, but pointedly noted they were not making a statement on tolling the highway, The (Norristown PA) Times-Herald newspaper reported Monday (July 26). The [...]

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SANATOGA PA – “Eagle Eye.” That’s a new nickname taxpayers might want to give Michele Cappelletti, secretary to the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Board of Commissioners, for a road paving bid error she discovered this month. Correcting it, township Manager Rodney Hawthorne said, saved money. Three weeks ago commissioners awarded a contract for re-paving parts [...]

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LIMERICK PA – The U.S. Route 422 Master Plan, a document that provides “a vision and a framework” to manage population growth and traffic congestion along the four-lane highway – and not one, backers pointed out, that directly calls for imposing driver tolls – won unanimous support Tuesday (July 20, 2010) from the Limerick (PA) [...]

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