New signal for Mahanoy City intersection
BY LESLIE RICHARDSON - REPUBLICAN
Herald
08/22/2007
MAHANOY CITY — The borough council awarded a contact
to Signal Services Inc., West Chester, to upgrade the traffic signal
at Main and Centre streets during a special meeting held Tuesday.
The signal at the main intersection will be replaced
at a cost of $15,356.
Money for the project will come in part from a PennDOT
Pedestrian Safety Grant that was secured for the borough through the
Upper Schuylkill Downtowns initiative.
According to Borough Manager Jerry Teter, $13,000 of
the $20,000 grant was designated to replace the current signal that
was installed in 1934.
The rest of the money, about $2,356, will come from
liquid fuels money set aside for the project.
The work will include replacing everything except the
poles. The upgraded signal will use LED lights that will use one-tenth
the amount of electricity of the current incandescent lights, according
to Bill Smith, Marysville, a traffic signal technician with Republic
ITS, which also submitted a bid for the project.
“This will represent a rather large savings to
the borough,” Smith said.
Teter agreed.
“The LED lights will be bigger, brighter and use
less energy,” Teter said. “We will save money since they
will be cheaper to run and the project came at no expense to the borough.”
The borough received an extension for the project which,
according to the grant application, was to be completed by October.
Teter did not say when work would begin.
The council also voted to purchase a bill-sealing machine
for mailing the trash collection bills.
According to Teter, the machine will cost about $1,700,
with the money coming from the sanitation fund.
“I vote to purchase the machine to make the work
easier and to get us into the 21st century,” Councilman Robert
Lewis said.
In other business, Teter announced that the County Boroughs
Association would meet at the Elks Lodge in Mahanoy City on Sept.
20. Dinner will be at 6 p.m. and the meeting will start about 7 p.m.
The council voted to pay $250 toward the cost of the meal that will
be provided by Hanrahan’s Market, Mahanoy City.
The association will pick up the rest of the dinner
tab.
Teter said the program will be either an update
on the statewide Blight Task Force or on Upper Schuylkill programs.
© The REPUBLICAN & Herald
2007
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