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Chester council holds first reading of traffic-calming ordinance to formalize speed-hump process
Summary
Council reviewed the first reading of Bill No. 4 to create Article 5-13, which sets the petition, engineering and PennDOT-based criteria for installing traffic-calming measures on city-owned streets.
Deputy Mayor West and members of the Chester City Council on Oct. 6 heard the first reading of Bill No. 4, a proposed ordinance to add new Article 5-13, “Traffic Calming Measures,” to the city code. The bill would establish criteria and a formal process for installing traffic-calming devices on city-owned roadways intended to reduce speeds in residential areas.
City public-works staff said the ordinance mostly codifies an existing process reviewed last week by the public-works committee and modeled in part on Concord Township…
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