ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 Allentown City Council forwarded legislation to pay for a traffic improvement project Wednesday night at city hall.<\/p>\n
The city will transfer nearly $1.7 million to fund the American Parkway traffic signal improvement project. The project will complete the installation of a traffic adaptive system along American Parkway and Basin Street, from Susquehanna Street to Airport Road.<\/p>\n
Allentown was awarded $1.38 million through the Green Light-Go grant program and will be reimbursed once the work is complete.<\/p>\n
At the March 5 City Council meeting, the legislative body awarded the traffic signal improvement project contract for the project to Telco for $1.67 million.<\/p>\n
The work involves adding 11 intersections to the city’s existing traffic signal system and improving pedestrian accommodations. The 11 intersections involve:<\/p>\n
American Parkway and Airport Road.<\/p>\n
American Parkway and Irving Street.<\/p>\n
American Parkway and IronPigs Way\/St. Luke’s Way.<\/p>\n
American Parkway and North Bradford Street.<\/p>\n
American Parkway and Front Street.<\/p>\n
American Parkway and Sumner Avenue\/Ridge Avenue.<\/p>\n
American Parkway and Gordon Street.<\/p>\n
American Parkway and Linden Street.<\/p>\n
American Parkway\/Third Street and Hamilton Street.<\/p>\n
Third Street and Union Street.<\/p>\n
Basin Street and Auburn Street.<\/p>\n
Wednesday night’s action referred the legislation to the public works committee.<\/p>\n
In a separate bill, the legislative body advanced legislation to provide for “low-cost temporary safety improvement projects.” They include installing speed cushions, roundabouts and line painting at “key locations” throughout the city.<\/p>\n
City contracts<\/p>\n
City Council authorized four cooperative contracts involving various operational areas.<\/p>\n
Two deals, with Miller Flooring, involve basketball courts at Stevens Park and Roosevelt Park for $75,369.<\/p>\n
Another involves turnout gear for new fire cadet recruits with Witmer Public Safety Group, at a $59,816 value.<\/p>\n
The final contract will allow the city to buy a 35-ton lowboy trailer from Stephenson Equipment for $104,195.95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 Allentown City Council forwarded legislation to pay for a traffic improvement project Wednesday night at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,2748,121,120,96010],"class_list":["post-220362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-city-council","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-american-parkway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}