Nether Providence Commissioners Seek To Improve Pedestrian Safety On Copples Lane
Nether Providence Township Board of Commissioners have asked the Wallingford Swarthmore School District to make enhancements to a section of Copples adjacent to the lower parking lot. The request was part of the board’s final review of items of the completed Strath Haven Middle School renovation and expansion.
The school district agreed and installed a new 4-foot-wide asphalt path running from Smithfield Road to a lot entrance and curbing, as well as a white strip to call motorists’ attention to the need to proceed carefully.
Township officials said they would install in-road, glow-in-the-dark traffic markers along an on-street walkway stretching the length of Copples Lane. The walkway on the busy connector street is used by students and residents, but visibility can be a challenge, particularly at night.
At the Nether Providence Township Board Of Commissioners meeting on November 8, the commissioners voted 7-0 to use $3,373 from a $7,268 Delaware Valley Insurance Trust, DVIT, risk-control grant to fund the purchase of the devices.
The DVIT is a regional municipal risk sharing pool providing property and liability coverage to its participating members, which includes Nether Providence Township.
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