Butler Township awarded $400,000 state grant to upgrade traffic signals
Butler Township has been awarded a $400,000 state grant to upgrade 17 traffic signal controllers, some of which are 20 to 40 years old.
The $415,686 grant is part of $31 million in grants from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's “Green Light-Go” program to 70 municipalities across the state, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Thursday.
The grants are provided as reimbursements to improve the efficiency and operation of existing traffic signals, Wolf said.
Township manager Edward Kirkwood, who submitted the grant application last year, said the reimbursement will cover 80 percent of the cost and the township will be responsible for the remaining 20 percent.
The commissioners should be able to award a contract in October or November and the work would take place next summer. Kirkwood estimated the work would take two months to complete.
He said he will highlight the project at the commissioners' meeting Monday.
The project includes replacing signal controllers and the controller cabinets for four signals on the Route 68 corridor from Meridian Road to the Route 356 intersection.
The other controllers being replaced are at the four-way intersection of Saxonburg Boulevard, Center Avenue, Freeport Road and Morton Avenue, the intersection of Hansen Avenue at Route 8 at the Picklegate Bridge and North Main Street at the Filbert Street, Delwood Road and Beech Street intersections.
A full story will appear in the Butler Eagle.
