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Committee forwards three capital amendments for intersection work, signal upgrades and street trees
Summary
The Allentown City Public Works Committee unanimously voted to forward three 2026 capital amendments—funding preliminary work on a Lehigh/Union intersection redesign, completing design for four signal upgrades on the 17th Street corridor, and accepting developer payments to plant new street trees—each to be considered by the full council.
The Public Works Committee voted to forward three amendments to the 2026 capital budget to the full Allentown City Council.
Bill 10 would accept a Local Share Account grant of $346,158 to fund preparatory capital work for a reconstruction at the Lehigh (Main?) and Union Street intersection. Shara, the department presenter, said the plan would remove an existing concrete island and replace it with a signalized intersection including ADA ramps, crosswalks and a pedestrian flasher to improve safety for students and neighborhood pedestrians. "There's a whole slew of improvements that we're looking at doing at that intersection," Shara said. He added the city also received a separate community-project grant of about $1,100,000 but remains roughly $500,000 short of the…
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