A Perry County township supervisor says he feels a relatively small loss of liquid fuels funds was far outweighed by the safety provided by the speed bump.
has caused a bump in the road with PennDOT and threatened the liquid fuels funds the municipality receives for the stretch.
A back-and-forth between the state agency and the township led to an ultimatum — lose the humps or the liquid fuels funding for the roughly half-mile segment of road. Beaver also criticized PennDOT for what he saw as a lack of cooperation with the township. He noted the township repeatedly asked for traffic studies in order reduce speed limits on state routes in the township, including Red Hill Road and Juniata Parkway East. PennDOT conducted studies but concluded no speed limit reduction was warranted in either case. Furthermore, Beaver said Howe also had to finance and install traffic control signs the township wanted on state routes.
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