All tagged Traffic Safety
Traffic on Fairview Road, Swarthmore’s response to the sale of the county regional wastewater management company, and accessibility were the main topics of the month’s sole Swarthmore Borough Council meeting on August 10. The meeting was (virtually) packed, with 26 people in attendance, including 16 residents of Swarthmore and Ridley.
Anticipating continued discussion of the intersection of Yale and Cornell avenues, approximately 15 people showed up at Monday night’s meeting of the Swarthmore Borough Council Public Safety Committee. Eric Johnson of Pennoni Associates, the borough engineer, presented a study he conducted over several days in February. He was trying to determine whether the intersection meets the formal warrant for a four-way stop. He concluded that it does not.
The intersection of Yale and Cornell avenues dominated the Swarthmore Borough Council meeting on Monday night. During the public comment section of the meeting, four residents relayed their concerns about safety at the intersection. Two of these had previously spoken at the Public Safety Committee meeting on January 27. The other two principal issues discussed at the meeting had to do with trees.
