[Amended 9-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-12]
A. 
Maximum speed limits are established on portions of specified streets, as follows, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on any part of a street where a maximum speed limit applies at a higher speed than the maximum prescribed for that part of the street.
Street
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
(mph)
Bridge Street
[Amended 5-13-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-03; 11-19-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04]
Between the Delaware River and Old York Road/Riverstone Circle
25
Bridge Street
[Amended 5-13-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-03; 11-19-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04]
Between Old York Road/Riverstone Circle and the Borough/Township line
35
Buttonwood Street
Entire length
15
Chestnut Street
Entire length
15
Coryell Street
Entire length
15
Division Street
Entire length
15
Dock Street
Entire length
15
Ferry Street
Entire length
25
Glen Eagles Drive
Entire length
25
Hardy Bush Way
Entire length
20
Kiltie Drive
Entire length
25
Kingswood Drive
Entire length
25
Main Street (River Road)
[Amended 4-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-01]
Between southern Borough/Township of Solebury line and Windy Bush Road
25
Main Street
Between Rt. 232 and Parry Street
25
Main Street
[Amended 5-14-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-02]
Between Parry Street and northern Borough/Township of Solebury line
25
Mechanic Street
Between 500 feet west of Oscar Hammerstein Way and Stoney Hill Road
25
Mechanic Street
Between Stoney Hill Road and South Sugan Road
15
Mechanic Street
Between Waterloo Street and 500 feet west of Oscar Hammerstein Way
15
New Street
Entire length
20
Old Mill Road
Entire length
15
Old York Road
Entire length
25
Parry Street
Entire length
15
Randolph Street
Entire length
15
Riverstone Circle
Entire length
25
St. Andrews Court
Entire length
25
Stockton Avenue
Entire length
20
Stoney Hill Road
Between South Sugan Road and Borough/Township line
25
Stoney Hill Road
Between West Mechanic Street and South Sugan Road
15
Sugan Road
Entire length
25
Turnberry Way
Entire length
25
Waterloo Street
Entire length
15
Windy Bush Road
[Added 4-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-01]
Eastbound, between Borough/Township of Solebury line and Main Street
25
Windy Bush Road
[Amended 5-14-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-02;4-14-2010 by Ord. No. 2010-01]
Westbound between Main Street and Borough/Township of Solebury line
40
B. 
Pursuant to Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, Borough Ordinance No. 2003-10, and by agreement with the Riverwoods of New Hope Community Association, the Borough of New Hope is authorized to enforce the speeding laws of the commonwealth by police authority in the Riverwoods development. Consequently, maximum speed limits are established on portions of specified streets in the Riverwoods development, as follows, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle, on any part of a street where a maximum speed limit applies, at a higher speed than the maximum prescribed for that part of the street.
Street
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
(mph)
Bridgewater Drive
Entire length
25
Deer Path
Entire length
25
Hidden Court
Entire length
25
Lakeview Drive
Entire length
25
Madison Court
Entire length
25
Pinewood Circle
Entire length
25
Riverview Circle
Entire length
25
Riverwoods Drive
Entire length
25
Rolling Hills Court
Entire length
25
Summer Lea Court
Entire length
25
West Riverwoods Drive
Entire length
25
A. 
Maximum speed limits are established, as follows, on certain bridges and elevated structures, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on any such bridge or elevated structure at a higher speed than the maximum prescribed for that bridge or elevated structure:
Bridge or Elevated Structure
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
(Reserved)
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule. Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour shall pay an additional fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule for each mile in excess of 10 miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
The following are declared to be hazardous grades, and, upon any such hazardous grade, no person shall drive a vehicle having a gross weight in excess of that referred to for that grade in the direction stated for that grade, at a speed in excess of that established in this section for that grade, and, if so stated for a particular grade, the driver of every such vehicle shall stop the vehicle before proceeding downhill:
Street
Between
Direction of Travel
Maximum Gross Weight
Maximum Speed Limit
Required to Stop Before Proceeding Downhill
(Reserved)
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule. Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour shall pay an additional fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule for each mile in excess of 10 miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
A speed limit of 35 miles per hour is established on all streets and roadways in the public parks maintained and operated by the Borough of New Hope, except in the following locations, where the lower maximums, as specified, shall apply:
Park
Street
Location
Maximum Speed Limit
(mph)
(Reserved)
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule. Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than 10 miles per hour shall pay an additional fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule for each mile in excess of 10 miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
At the following locations, traffic signals as indicated below shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected), and traffic at those locations shall be directed by those signals:
Location
Type of Signal
Bridge Street and Main Street
Traffic Control
Route 179 and Sugan Road
Traffic Control
B. 
Any driver of a vehicle who disobeys the directions of any traffic signal shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
The following are established as intersections where drivers of vehicles headed in the direction or directions indicated are prohibited from making a right turn (or a left turn from a one-way street into another one-way street) on a steady red signal:
Intersection
Vehicles Traveling on
Facing
Bridge Street at Main Street
Bridge Street
East and west
Main Street at Bridge Street
Main Street
North and south
Route 179 and Sugan Road
[Added 5-13-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-03]
Route 179
West and east
Sugan Road and Route 179
[Added 5-13-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-03]
Sugan Road
North
B. 
Any driver of a vehicle who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
The following are established as one-way streets, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle on any one-way street other than in the direction established for traffic on that street:
Street
From
To
Direction
of Travel
Coryell Street
South Main Street
Waterloo Street
Eastbound
East Mechanic Street
Waterloo Street
South Main Street
Westbound
Waterloo Street
Coryell Street
East Mechanic Street
Northbound
Waterloo Street
[Repealed 7-13-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-6]
West Mechanic Street
[Amended 7-13-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-6]
South Main Street
New Street
Westbound
West Mechanic Street
[Added 6-13-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-08]
Stoney Hill Road
Sugan Road
Westbound
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
The following are designated as rotary traffic islands, and every vehicle passing around a rotary traffic island shall be driven only to the right of the island:
(Reserved)
B. 
Any person who drives a vehicle otherwise than to the right of any rotary traffic island shall be guilty of a violation of this section and, upon conviction, shall be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, of the type indicated, traveling upon the first-named street at any of the following intersections, in the direction or directions indicated in each case, to make a left turn and/or a right turn into the second-named street, as indicated, at any time when such a turn is prohibited by this section:
[Amended 7-13-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-6]
Vehicles
Traveling on
Direction
of Travel
Prohibited Turn
Into
When
(Reserved)
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, traveling upon the first-named street at any of the following intersections, in the direction or directions indicated in each case, to make other than a right turn, at any time stated, both left turns and straight-across traffic being prohibited:
Vehicles Traveling on
Direction of Travel
Times
Not to make left turn into or travel straight across
(Reserved)
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle, traveling upon any of the following portions of streets, in the direction or directions indicated for that street, to make a U-turn:
Street
Portion
Direction of Travel
South Main Street
Corner of New Street/Riverwoods Drive
Northbound
South Main Street
Corner of New Street/Riverwoods Drive
Soutbound
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
A. 
The following are established as no passing zones, and it shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle to overtake or pass another vehicle or to drive on the left side of the roadway in any no passing zone:
Street
Direction of Travel
Between
(Reserved)
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.[1]
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original § 213, Through highways established, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed 9-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-12.
[Amended 9-14-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-12]
A. 
The following intersections are established as stop intersections, and official stop signs shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected) in such a position as to face traffic approaching the second-named street (the intersecting or through street) on the first-named street (the stop street) in the direction or directions indicated for that intersection. Every driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection on the first-named or stop street, in the direction indicated in each case, shall stop the vehicle as required by Section 3323(b) of the Vehicle Code,[1] and shall not proceed into or across the second-named or intersecting or through street until he or she has followed all applicable requirements of that section of the law.
Stop Street
Intersecting or Through Street
Direction of Travel
Buttonwood Street
Chestnut Street
East- and Westbound
Chestnut Street
Bridge Street
Southbound
Division Street
Main Street
Westbound
Dock Street
Main Street
Westbound
Ferry Street
Bridge Street
Westbound
Ferry Street
Main Street
East- and Westbound
Glen Eagles Drive
Kingswood Drive
Eastbound
Hardy Bush Way
School Access Road
Westbound
Kiltie Drive (both ends)
Bridge Street
Northbound
Kingswood Drive
St. Andrews
Westbound
Kingswood Drive
Sugan Road
Eastbound
Mechanic Street
Main Street
Westbound
Mechanic Street
[Added 8-9-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-11]
New Street
Westbound
Mechanic Street
Stockton Avenue
East- and Westbound
Mechanic Street
Sugan Road
Northbound
New Street
Main Street
Eastbound
New Street
[Amended 8-9-2006 by Ord. No. 2006-11]
Mechanic Street
Northbound
New Street
Riverwoods Drive
Southbound
Old Mill Road
Ferry Street
Eastbound
Old York Road
Bridge Street
Eastbound
Old York Road
Sugan Road
East- and Westbound
Parry Street
Main Street
Eastbound
Randolph Street
Main Street
East- and Westbound
Riverstone Circle
Bridge Street
Southbound
St. Andrews Court
Stoney Hill Road
Northbound
Stockton Avenue
Bridge Street
Northbound
Stockton Avenue
Ferry Street
North- and Southbound
Stockton Avenue
Mechanic Street
Southbound
Stoney Hill Road
Mechanic Street
Eastbound
Stoney Hill Road
Sugan Road
Westbound
Sugan Road
Stoney Hill Road
Northbound
Turnberry Way
Kingswood Drive
Northbound
Waterloo Street
Mechanic Street
Northbound
Windy Bush Road
Main Street
Eastbound
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa. C.S.A. § 3323(b).
B. 
Pursuant to Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, Borough Ordinance No. 2003-10, and by agreement with the Riverwoods of New Hope Community Association, the Borough of New Hope is authorized to enforce the traffic control laws of the commonwealth by police authority in the Riverwoods development. Consequently, the following intersections in the Riverwoods Development are established as stop intersections, and official stop signs shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected) in such a position as to face traffic approaching the second-named street (the intersecting or through street) on the first-named street (the stop street) in the direction or directions indicated for that intersection. Every driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection on the first-named or stop street, in the direction indicated in each case, shall stop the vehicle as required by Section 3323(b) of the Vehicle Code,[2] and shall not proceed into or across the second-named or intersecting or through street until he or she has followed all applicable requirements of that section of the law.
Stop Street
Intersecting or Through Street
Direction of Travel
Bridgewater Drive
George Kaufman Way
Westbound
Bridgewater Drive
[Amended 5-17-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-06]
West Riverwoods Drive
East- , north- and southbound (three-way)
Hidden Court
Riverwoods Drive
Southbound
Lakeview Drive
Deer Path
Eastbound
Lakeview Drive
West Riverwoods Drive
Westbound
Madison Court
Deer Path
Southbound
Pinewood Circle
Deer Path
Westbound
Riverview Circle
Deer Path
Westbound
Riverwoods Drive
Deer Path
East-, west- and southbound (three-way)
Rolling Hill Court
George Kaufman Way
Southbound
Summer Lea Court
Bridgewater Drive
Southbound
West Riverwoods Drive
Riverwoods Drive
Southbound
[2]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa. C.S.A. § 3323(b).
[Amended 5-13-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-03; 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
The following intersections are established as yield intersections, and official yield signs shall be erected (or are ratified if previously erected) in such a position as to face traffic approaching the second-named street (the through street) on the first-named street (the yield street) in the direction or directions indicated for that intersection. Every driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection on the first-named or yield street, in the direction indicated in each case, shall slow down or stop the vehicle as required by Section 3323(c) of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.,[1] as hereafter amended, supplemented, modified or reenacted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania ("Vehicle Code"), and then yield the right-of-way as required by that subsection of the Vehicle Code.
Yield Street
Through Street
Direction of Travel
(Reserved)
[1]
Editor's Note: See, specifically, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(c).
B. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
No motor vehicle or motorcycle or minibike shall be operated on any lands owned by the Borough of New Hope or any other public body or agency within the Borough of New Hope, except on those lands specifically designated for the operation of motor vehicles, motorcycles or minibikes by resolution of the Borough Council.
A. 
The word "pushcart," as used in this section, shall mean a vehicle, other than a pedalcycle, propelled solely by human power, and used or intended for use for the display, exhibit or sale of goods, wares or merchandise.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to propel a pushcart upon any street or sidewalk.
C. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section, or any condition of any permit granted under this section, shall be guilty of a summary offense, and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
[Amended 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
[Amended 7-13-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-6; 4-18-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-04]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in roller-skating, in-line skating, ice skating, skateboarding, hoverboarding, or roller-blading, or to ride upon or propel any coaster, scooter, Segway®, or like-kind toy, equipment or device, upon any public street, alley, sidewalk, curb, parking lot, or driveway located in the Borough.
B. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to ride on or propel a sled, sleigh, toboggan, snow glider, snow slider, saucer, snowboard, or other like-kind snow-related toy, equipment or device (collectively, "snow toy") upon any public street, alley, sidewalk, curb, parking lot, or driveway in the Borough, except as blocked off for such activity by authority of § 259-5 of Article I of this chapter; provided, nothing in this subsection shall prevent a person from pulling a snow toy, with or without a rider, upon a sidewalk.
C. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be required to pay a fine as determined by the Borough Council through the Borough Fee Schedule.
[Added 5-14-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-02]
A. 
The following portions of the identified streets, lanes, highways, alleys and/or roads within the territorial limits of New Hope Borough are hereby designated as school zones:
Name of Road
North/East Zone Boundary
South/West Zone Boundary
West Bridge Street
388 feet west of Chestnut Street
264 feet east of Riverstone Circle
B. 
The speed limits for both directions of traffic along the highways or any parts thereof within a school zone shall be 15 miles per hour when the school zone speed limits are in effect. It shall be unlawful for the driver or operator of any motor vehicle to drive at a speed greater than 15 miles per hour within a school zone when the school zone speed limits are in effect.
C. 
School zone speed limits are in effect during the normal hours students are going to and leaving school.
D. 
Appropriate Pennsylvania Department of Transportation permitted signage and/or traffic control devices shall be installed on any street, lane, highway, alley and/or road or portion thereof within the territorial limits of New Hope Borough designated as a "school zone" to indicate the beginning and end of the school zone, as well as the effective hours of the school zone.