[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
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
|
Between
|
Maximum Speed Limit
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
5th Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
6th Avenue
[Added by Ord. 2015-197, 1/4/2016] |
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Academic Way
[Amended by Ord. 2015-197, 1/4/2016] |
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Amwell Valley Drive
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Battlecreek Way
|
Charlestown Hunt Drive
|
25 mph
| |
|
Benburb Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Blackberry Lane
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Bodine Road (s)
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Charlestown Road
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Church Road
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Brandywine Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Buckwalter Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Charlestown Hunt Drive
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
F Street
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Glenview Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Green Lane Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Hilltop Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Hollow Road
|
Yellow Springs Road
|
35 mph
| |
|
Howells Road
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Marian Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Maryhill Road
|
Crestview Road to Coldstream Road
|
35 mph
| |
|
Maryhill Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Merlin Road
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Newcomen Road (w)
|
Windsor
|
35 mph
| |
|
Pickering Dam Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Pine Drive
|
Township Line
|
25 mph
| |
|
Ravenhill Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Rees Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Sidley Hill Road
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Southwest Avenue
[Added by Ord. 2015-197, 1/4/2016] |
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Spring Mill Road
[Amended by Ord. No. 2017-207, 11/6/2017] |
East Whiteland Township line to its intersection
with Phoenixville Pike
|
25 mph
| |
|
Sycamore Lane
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Taconic Drive
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Tyrone Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Township-Owned Roads
|
Passing through residential areas
|
35 mph
| |
|
Union Hill Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Valley Hill Road
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Wells Road
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Windy Hollow Drive
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
| |
|
Yellow Springs Road
|
Entire length
|
35 mph
| |
|
Yorktown Road
|
Entire length
|
25 mph
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs.
Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than five miles
per hour shall pay an additional fine of $2 per mile for each mile
in excess of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
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)
| |||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs.
Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than five miles
per hour shall pay an additional fine of $2 per mile for each mile
in excess of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
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)
| |||||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs.
Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than five miles
per hour shall pay an additional fine of $2 for each mile in excess
of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
A speed limit of 15 miles per hour is established
on all streets and roadways in the public parks maintained and operated
by the Township, except in the following locations, where the lower
maximums, as specified, shall apply:
|
Park
|
Street
|
Location
|
Maximum Speed Limit
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $35 and costs.
Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit by more than five miles
per hour shall pay an additional fine of $2 per mile for each mile
in excess of five miles per hour over the maximum speed limit.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
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
| |
|---|---|
|
Conestoga Road (Rt 401) and Newcomen Road
| |
|
Conestoga Road (Rt 401) and Valley Hill Road
| |
|
Phoenixville Pike at Warner Lane
| |
|
Phoenixville Pike/State Road (Rt 29) at Charlestown
Road/Morehall Road (Rt 29)
| |
|
Morehall Road (Rt 29) and Whitehorse Road
| |
|
Morehall Road (Rt 29) and Yellow Springs Road/Warner
Lane
|
2.
Any driver of a vehicle who disobeys the directions
of any traffic signal, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay
a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
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
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
2.
Any driver of a vehicle who violates any provision
of this section, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine
of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
The following are established as one-way roadways,
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
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
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:
|
Vehicles Traveling On
|
Direction of Travel
|
Not to Make Turn
|
Into
|
When
|
Type of Vehicle Applicable To
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
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 left turn, at any time stated, both right turns and straight-across
traffic being prohibited:
|
Vehicles Traveling On
|
Direction of Travel
|
Times
|
Not To Make Right Turn Into or Travel
Straight Across
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
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
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
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)
| |||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
The following highways are established as through
highways, thus authorizing stop or yield signs to be erected facing
traffic approaching every intersection with the through highway except
for those intersections with traffic signals, or with exceptions or
modifications as indicated below. Every driver of a vehicle approaching
a stop or yield sign authorized by this section shall stop the vehicle
or yield right-of-way as required by 75 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 3323(b),
3323(c) of the Vehicle Code, as the case may be, and shall not proceed
into or across the through highway until he has followed all applicable
requirements of that section of the law:
|
Highway
|
Between
| |
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 15-212) 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 of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 3323(b), and shall not proceed into or across the second-named or intersecting or through street until he has followed all applicable requirements of that section of the law.
|
Stop Street
|
Intersecting or Through Street
|
Direction of Travel
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Academic Way
|
Southwest Street
| ||
|
Aldham Road
|
State Road
| ||
|
Aldham Road
|
Union Hill Road
| ||
|
Amwell Valley Drive
|
Charlestown Hunt Drive
| ||
|
Battlecreek Way
|
Charlestown Hunt Drive
| ||
|
Beaufort Court
|
Windy Hollow Drive
| ||
|
Bell Circle
|
Conestoga Road
| ||
|
Benburb Road
|
Hilltop Road
| ||
|
Benburb Road
|
Coldstream Road
| ||
|
Blackberry Lane
|
Hollow Road
| ||
|
Blackberry Lane
|
Sidley Hill Road
| ||
|
Blackstone Lane
|
Rees Road
| ||
|
Blackstone Lane
|
Great Woods Lane
| ||
|
Bodine Road
|
Valley Hill
| ||
|
Brandywine Road
|
Yellow Springs Road
| ||
|
Buckwalter Road
|
State Road
| ||
|
Buckwalter Road
|
Charlestown Road
| ||
|
Charlestown Hunt Drive
|
State Road
| ||
|
Crestvu Road
|
Maryhill Road
| ||
|
Crown Oak Drive
|
Newcomen Road
| ||
|
Devault Lane
|
Whitehorse Road
| ||
|
Devault Lane
|
Post Office Drive
| ||
|
Dickson Drive
|
State Road
| ||
|
Dobs Lane
|
Oak Lane
| ||
|
Glenview Road
|
Tyrone Road
| ||
|
Green Lane Road
|
Valley Hill Road
| ||
|
Green Lane Road
|
Foster Road
| ||
|
Greenbriar Circle
|
Bodine Road
| ||
|
Hedgerow Lane
|
Rosewood Lane
| ||
|
Highlands Lane
|
Pikeland Road
| ||
|
Hilltop Road
|
Charlestown Road
| ||
|
Howells Road
|
Rees Road and Green Lane
|
Northeast and Southwest
| |
|
Howells Road
|
Clothier Springs Road
| ||
|
Jamie Lane
|
Maryhill Road
| ||
|
Lincoln Road
|
Pickering Road
| ||
|
Loudoun Place
|
Charlestown Hunt Drive
| ||
|
Marian Road
|
Coldstream Road
| ||
|
Marian Road
|
Hilltop Road
| ||
|
Maryhill Road
|
Ravenhill Road
|
All
| |
|
Maryhill Road
|
Coldstream Road
| ||
|
Maryhill Road
|
Crestvu Road
| ||
|
Mine Road
|
Whitehorse Road
| ||
|
Oak Lane
|
Blackberry Lane
| ||
|
Peaks Pike Road
|
State Road
| ||
|
Peaks Pike Road
|
Pickering Dam Road
| ||
|
Pickering Road
|
Pickering Spur
| ||
|
Pickering Road
|
Charlestown Road
| ||
|
Pickering Spur
|
Charlestown Road
| ||
|
Primrose Lane
|
South Winds Lane
| ||
|
Ravenhill Road
|
Maryhill Road
| ||
|
Ravenill Road
|
Coldstream Road
| ||
|
Rees Road
|
Blackstone Lane
|
Northwest and Southeast
| |
|
Rees Road
|
Howells Road
|
Southeast
| |
|
Rees Road
|
Whitehorse Road
| ||
|
Ridgewood Road
|
Sidley Hill Road
| ||
|
Rosewood Lane
|
Bodine Road
| ||
|
Sawgrass Lane
|
Great Woods Lane
| ||
|
Sidley Hill Road
|
Yellow Springs Road
| ||
|
Somerset Lane
|
Hollow Road
| ||
|
Southwinds Lane
|
Great Woods Lane
| ||
|
Southwinds Lane
|
Whitehorse Road
| ||
|
Spring Meadow Farms Lane
|
Howells Road
| ||
|
Spring Mill Drive
|
Phoenixville Pike
| ||
|
Sycamore Lane
|
Charlestown Road
| ||
|
Taconic Drive
|
Charlestown Hunt Drive
| ||
|
Theresa Drive
| |||
|
Three Ponds Lane
|
Pikeland Road
| ||
|
Tinkerhill Lane
|
Union Hill Road
| ||
|
Tipperary Drive
|
Windy Hollow Drive
| ||
|
Tranquility Drive
| |||
|
Tyrone Road
|
Marian Road
| ||
|
Union Hill Road
|
Aldham Road
| ||
|
Union Hill Road
|
Railroad underpass
|
East and West
| |
|
Union Hill Road
|
State Road
| ||
|
Union Hill Road
|
Tinkerhill Lane
|
Northwest and Southeast
| |
|
Union Hill Road
|
Whitehorse Road
| ||
|
Wells Road
|
Yellow Springs Road
| ||
|
Wells Road
|
Pikeland Road
| ||
|
Whitehorse Meadows Road
|
Whitehorse Road
| ||
|
Windy Hollow Drive
|
Charlestown Hunt Drive
| ||
|
Wyndham Lane
|
Newcomen Road
| ||
|
Yorktown Road
|
Yellow Springs Road
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 15-212) 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 75 Pa.C.S.A. §§ 3323(c) of the 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)
| |||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
No motor vehicle including a motorcycle, pedalcycle
or minibike shall be operated on any property owned by the Township
or any other public agency or instrumentality within the Township
without the permission of the property owner and a permit from the
[Designated Official] of the Township.
2.
Any person who violates an provision of this section,
upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
The following locations 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:
|
Location
| |
|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
|
2.
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 sentenced to pay a
fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
The following areas upon the streets in the Township
are established as play highways:
|
Street
|
Between
|
Days
|
Hours
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
2.
The [Designated Official] is authorized to designate
as play highways, whenever he deems that action advisable, and for
whatever period of time directed by him, any part of any street in
the Township where sledding and coasting shall be permitted. That
play highway shall be set apart for the purpose under the direction
of the [Designated Official].
3.
No person shall drive any motor vehicle upon any play
highway at any time when that street shall be designated as a play
highway, except in case of emergency, with special permission of the
[Designated Official] or of the police officer in charge, who shall
first clear that play highway of all persons using it for the purpose
for which it was set aside. Any person who violates any provision
of this subsection, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine
of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
The following roads and streets within the Township
are designated as special snowmobile roads:
|
Street or Road
|
Between
|
Used by Snow-mobiles Only When Closed
to Vehicular Traffic
|
Shared With Vehicular Traffic
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
2.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile
on any highway, street or road in the Township other than as provided
above. Provided, nothing in this section shall prohibit any person
from operating a snowmobile on any other street in the Township:
A.
As authorized by the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. §
7721, for emergency and bridge crossings and for direct crossing of
streets or two-lane highways.
B.
For special snowmobile events where authorized in
advance and the street is blocked off as provided in the Vehicle Code,
75 Pa.C.S.A. § 7723. Any person who violates any provision of
this section shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in §
7752(a) of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 7752(a).
[Ord. 160-2010, 10/4/2010]
1.
The following are hereby established as school zones
in accordance with § 3365(b) of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S.A.
§ 3365(b), and no person shall drive a vehicles at a speed greater
than 15 miles per hour in said zone or zones:
2.
Penalty.
A.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this
section, upon conviction, except as set forth under paragraph .B,
a fine of $35.
B.
For a violation of this section, a fine of not more
than $500 if the person exceeds the maximum speed limit by more than
11 miles per hour.
C.
Any person exceeding the maximum speed limit established
under this section by more than five miles per hour shall pay an additional
fine of $2 per mile for each mile in excess of five miles per hour
in excess of the maximum speed limit.
