Daily News | PennDot is considering safety improvements on Philly’s perilous Lincoln Drive
A PennDot speed control device at 63rd and Catherine Street in West Philadelphia. This is a speed table, a raised platform that forces cars to slow down. The agency will consider similar approaches for notoriously dangerous Lincoln Drive, it said in a letter to concerned neighbors campaigning for changes.PennDot is conducting a safety study of Lincoln Drive in West Mount Airy to figure out what traffic calming measures might work there to reduce speeding, aggressive driving and crashes.
Traffic fatalities dropped 20% last year from an all-time high of 152 deaths in 2020, according to the city’sA holistic approach to road safetyjust published a guide to speed management projects for arterial roads in the city As it stands now, the rules restrict what PennDot engineers can do to slow traffic on state-owned arterials, which are classified as thoroughfares meant to move large volumes of vehicles. For instance the designers couldn’t use some devices, such as speed cushions or slightly elevated traffic tables, which make drivers slow down to avoid rocking their cars.
Lincoln Drive is such an arterial road, and the section from Allen’s Lane to Cliveden Avenue is dense, with mixed commercial and residential buildings, and is designated a state highway.Inquirer wrote about the perils of Lincoln Drive PennDot also will study the feasibility of a roundabout at the triangular junction of Lincoln Drive and Emlen Street, with other roads feeding into it at oblique angles. Neighbors say it’s a crash hot spot.Nick Pipitone said he witnessed several accidents in the 18 months he lived in the Lincoln Terrace apartments above the Emlen Circle, including one in which a woman slammed her car into another vehicle, got out, ripped off her dangling bumper, and sped away.
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