Cressona officials indicated Monday that they might be willing to give up some of their Liquid Fuels allocation in order to install speed humps on one street in particular.
The Borough is trying to curb speeding, specifically on River St., and has been exploring options that wouldn’t be as costly as restarting its own police force, which isn’t going to happen.
In recent months, council members in Cressona have been exploring options like speed humps and speed bumps but haven’t settled on a solution just yet.
On Monday, Cressona’s engineer, Steve Moyer, told council members that if the Borough chose to install rubber speed humps – which had been a suggestion recently by Mayor Sandy Renninger – it risks losing its Liquid Fuels allocation for River St. (READ: Solution to Cressona’s Speeding Problem Could Be … in the Uline Catalog?)
Renninger previously suggested using rubber humps you can buy out the Uline catalog. She said she’s seen these in action and they’re effective. According to meeting minutes from a session The Canary was unable to attend recently, rubber humps may also be available on Facebook Marketplace.
Moyer said any speed humps must be approved by PennDOT and there are currently no rubberized humps that the agency has given the OK. And in order to get a rubber hump authorized by PennDOT, it would have to involve the manufacturer of that hump to petition the state agency.
That drew some groans from council members Monday night.
Cressona still can go ahead with using the rubber humps but likely would lose a portion of its Liquid Fuels money, which is given by the state to municipalities to maintain local roads.
It’s estimated that only about $2,000-3,000 is allotted to Cressona through Liquid Fuels to maintain River St.
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