Crews put finishing touches on downtown traffic lights
KAYLEE LINDENMUTH / SHENANDOAH SENTINEL - Telco workers remove the light post for the old traffic light at Main and Washington Streets in Shenandoah on Feb. 25, 2021.
SHENANDOAH – By midday today, most of Shenandoah’s new traffic lights were activated, and their predecessors removed.
Crews from Telco Traffic Solutions, Bern Township, were working on removing the 1960s-era traffic lights from Main and Washington Streets around 11:00am today prior to the activation of the new traffic light at that intersection.
By that point, they had already activated the new lights at Main’s intersections with Centre and Oak, and had removed the old lights at each intersection. Also activated at each intersection are the new pedestrian signals at those intersections.
The new and old lights have stood in tandem for a few months now as PennDOT awaited parts needed to finish the new light systems.
The upgrades are part of PennDOT’s $5.5 Million project to reconstruct Route 924 from the Pattersonville/Brandonville wye north of Shenandoah Heights to the northern end of Frackville. Work is being done by PennDOT contractors H&K Group, Skippack, and Telco.
Throughout 2020, crews resurfaced Route 924 from the wye to the Gold Star Bridge at Main and Old Turkey Run Road.
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