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Traffic light maintenance... The water company tore up the road a few years ago and the sensors to trip the light for Ridley Ave have never been fixed. Traffic is stopped for Swarthmore Ave when no cars are coming on Ridley Ave. Come on Ridley Park Borough, its time to get around to this.
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I've spoken with RP's Police Chief and the Borough Engineer and the news is not good about this light and the timing problem. Both Swarthmore and Ridley Are are both Commonwealth of Pa owned Highways. They are not owned or maintained by the Borough of Ridley Park.
As such, the absolute fact is that Ridley Park Borough and RP's Police department have their hands tied when it comes to timing and adjusting the timing of any light on a state highway. If the Borough knowingly readjusts the timing and there's a collision, then the liability is 100% on the Borough's shoulders for ignoring the times on the traffic light permit issued by PennDot.
Without writing another book on the subject, if the traffic light were go out of whack at Swarthmore and Ridley Ave, when it was restored, the light-timing would have to be reset to the original permit times in order to comply with PennDot's determination of the traffic pattern at "that intersection" on "their highway."
The idea, as I'm told, is to keep traffic flowing on the state highways to conserve gasoline - well it's frustrating to the residents and the Ridley Park Police.
PennDot has already altering the face of Rt 13 (Chester Pike), removing parking spots, and setting the timing on every traffic light along Chester Pike from Chester to Darby.
To get anything done at Swarthmore and Ridley Ave's I'd offer your complaints need to go higher, to the PA State level and maybe you'd be heard, since there is absolutely nothing RP or RPPD can do about your complaint other then listen and be sympathetic like the rest of us stuck along Chester Pike.
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@disgustedwithridleypark. You can believe what you want. I've taken my personal time to research this topic on three occassions. I spoke at great lkength with the Borough Engineer, Borough Council, Chief Byrne (When he was chief) and the PennDot representative in Middletown.
The Borough's saving my tax money wisely. It seems your complaint keeps the lazy from picking up the phone themselves. Thank you for writing about the complaint, now you need to do something more than be anonymous and follow through with action to your Representative office, rather then spamming your opinion see-click-fix
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