Peters Township gets state grant for Route 19 traffic signal replacement
Peters Township is receiving a state grant to replace the traffic signals at a busy intersection on Route 19.
Almost $477,000 is coming the township’s way through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT) Green Light-Go Program to replace the signals at the intersection of Crosswinds Drive and Route 19. Located near the McDowell Shops, the traffic signals were installed in the 1980s or 1990s and are reaching “the end of their useful life,” according to Kyle Thauvette, Peters’ assistant manager.
“We’re really excited to be doing these projects with the state,” Thauvette said, adding that traffic flowing smoothly down Route 19 is important not just to the township but the whole region.
New traffic signals will be installed in 2027 or 2028, Thauvette said. For the last couple of years, Peters Township has been able to tap into the Green Light-Go program to replace traffic signals at various points along Route 19, he added. All told, $38 million is going out to 86 municipalities across Pennsylvania this year through the program. One of Peters’ neighbors, Bethel Park, is getting a little more than $212,000 to modernize signal equipment at three intersections: South Park Road and Industrial Boulevard; Highland Road and Oxford Drive; and Route 88 and Oxford Drive.
Along with replacing aging traffic signals, the Green Light-Go program offers reimbursements to municipalities for retiming traffic signals and enhanced monitoring systems that allow signals to respond to traffic conditions.
Route 19 is also known as Washington Road and, according to state Sen. Camera Bartolotta, whose district includes Peters Township, “Washington Road is the township’s main road and is used by thousands of residents, commuters and visitors every day. Replacing the old traffic signals will make the area safer, improve how traffic moves and help this important intersection keep meeting the needs of the growing community.”