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
|
Portion
|
Maximum Speed Limit
(mph)
|
|---|---|---|
|
Montgomery Street
|
Entire extent in Borough
|
35
|
|
All streets except Montgomery Street
|
Entire extent in Borough
|
25
|
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, 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 that maximum speed limit.
A.
At the following intersections, official traffic signals shall be
erected, and traffic at those intersections shall be directed by those
signals:
|
Intersection
|
|---|
|
(Reserved)
|
B.
Any driver of a vehicle who disobeys the directions of any such traffic
signal shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and
costs.
A.
The following intersections are established as intersections where
drivers of vehicles headed in the direction or directions indicated
are prohibited from making a right turn on a steady red signal:
|
Vehicles Traveling on
|
Direction of Travel
|
Not to Make Right Turn on Red Into
|
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
B.
Any driver of a vehicle who makes a turn on a steady red signal in
violation of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to
pay a fine of $25 and costs.
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 a left turn
or a right turn at that intersection, as indicated for that intersection:
|
Vehicles Traveling on
|
Direction of Travel
|
Not to Make
|
Into
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
The following are established as one-way streets, and it shall be
unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle upon any one-way street
other than in the direction established for travel upon that street.
|
Street
|
From
|
To
|
Direction of Travel
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Church Street
|
Western intersection of Church Street and West Houston Avenue
|
Eastern intersection of Church Street and West Houston Avenue
|
South, east and north, counterclockwise
|
|
First Street
|
Second Street
|
Traffic Circle
|
West
|
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
Because all streets in the Borough are too narrow to permit vehicles
traveling upon any of them to pass other vehicles traveling in the
same direction safely, all streets in the Borough, for their entire
extent, are established as no-passing zones, and it shall be unlawful
for the driver of any vehicle to overtake or pass another vehicle
traveling in the same direction, or to drive on the left side of the
roadway, in any no-passing zone.
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Amended 7-8-2003 by Ord.
No. 2003-3]
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 street) upon 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 street until he has followed all applicable requirements
of that section of the law.
|
Stop Street
|
Intersecting Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
|---|---|---|
|
Bower Street
|
Main Street
|
Eastbound
|
|
Bower Street
|
West Houston Avenue
|
Northbound
|
|
Bower Street Extension
|
Bower Street
|
Eastbound
|
|
Broad Street
|
Second Street
|
Eastbound and westbound
|
|
Broad Street
|
South Main Street
|
Westbound
|
|
Broad Street
|
Thomas Avenue
|
Eastbound
|
|
Brook Street
|
West Houston Avenue
|
Southbound
|
|
Campbell Street
|
West Houston Avenue
|
Northbound
|
|
East Houston Avenue
|
Main Street
|
Westbound
|
|
Eighth Street
|
Broad Street
|
Northbound
|
|
Fifth Street
|
Broad Street
|
Northbound
|
|
Fifth Street
|
Wagner Avenue
|
Southbound
|
|
First Street
|
Broad Street
|
Northbound
|
|
Fourth Street
|
Broad Street
|
Northbound
|
|
Fourth Street
|
Wagner Avenue
|
Southbound
|
|
Heilman Street
|
East Houston Avenue
|
Southbound
|
|
Heilman Street
|
Montgomery Street
|
Southbound
|
|
Hess Street
|
Kinsey Street
|
Eastbound
|
|
Hess Street
|
Melvina Street
|
Westbound
|
|
High Street
|
Montgomery Street
|
Southbound
|
|
Johnson Street
|
Bower Street
|
Eastbound
|
|
Kinsey Street
|
West Houston Avenue
|
Southbound
|
|
Lewis Street
|
Penn Street
|
Northbound and southbound
|
|
Louisa Street
|
Kinsey Street
|
Eastbound
|
|
Louisa Street
|
West Houston Avenue
|
Westbound
|
|
Melvina Street
|
Louisa Street
|
Southbound
|
|
Miller Avenue
|
Thomas Avenue
|
Eastbound and westbound
|
|
Montgomery Street
|
Main Street
|
Westbound
|
|
Montgomery Street
|
Second Street
|
Eastbound and westbound
|
|
Park Street
|
Main Street
|
Westbound
|
|
Park Street
|
Second Street
|
Eastbound
|
|
Penn Street
|
Heilman Street
|
Eastbound and westbound
|
|
Penn Street
|
Lewis Street
|
Eastbound and westbound
|
|
Penn Street
|
Main Street
|
Eastbound and westbound
|
|
Persun Street
|
West Houston Avenue
|
Southbound
|
|
Piatt Street
|
Kinsey Street
|
Eastbound
|
|
School Street
|
East Houston Avenue
|
Southbound
|
|
School Street
|
Penn Street
|
Northbound and southbound
|
|
Seventh Street
|
Broad Street
|
Northbound
|
|
Sixth Street
|
Broad Street
|
Northbound
|
|
Third Street
|
Broad Street
|
Northbound
|
|
Third Street
|
Wagner Avenue
|
Southbound
|
|
Thomas Avenue
|
Broad Street
|
Northbound
|
|
Wagner Avenue
|
Fifth Street
|
Westbound
|
|
West Houston Avenue
|
Main Street
|
Eastbound
|
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(b).
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
The following intersections are established as yield-right-of-way
intersections, and official yield signs shall be erected in such a
position as to face traffic approaching the second-named street (the
intersecting street) upon the first-named street (the yield street)
at each yield intersection, in the direction or directions indicated
for that intersection. Every driver of a vehicle approaching the intersection
upon the first-named street, in the direction indicated in each case,
shall slow down or stop the vehicle as required by Section 3323(c)
of The Vehicle Code, and then yield the right-of-way as required by
that subsection of The Vehicle Code.[1]
|
Yield Street
|
Intersecting Street
|
Direction of Travel
|
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(c).
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
A.
On the following streets and portions of streets, by authority granted
by Section 4902(a) of The Vehicle Code, vehicle weight limits are
established, and it shall be unlawful for any person to drive on any
of those streets or portions of streets as the case may be, any vehicle
or combination having a gross weight in excess of the maximum prescribed
for that street or portion of street.
|
Street
|
Between
|
Maximum Gross Weight
|
|---|---|---|
|
West Houston Avenue
|
Main Street and West Borough line
|
26,000 pounds
|
B.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be prosecuted
under Section 4902(a) of The Vehicle Code and, upon conviction, shall
be sentenced to pay a fine of $150 and costs, and an additional penalty
of $75 for each 500 pounds or part thereof, in excess of 3,000 pounds
over the maximum allowable weight as prescribed by Section 4902(e-1)
of The Vehicle Code.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 4902.
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle other than
a passenger car on any of the following streets or parts of streets:
|
Street
|
Between
|
|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |
B.
Provided. Nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from
driving an emergency vehicle on any of those streets or parts of streets,
or from driving on any of those streets or parts of streets a truck
or other commercial vehicle making local deliveries to or pickups
from premises located along that street or part of a street.
C.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
