[Adopted 12-11-1984 by Ord. No. 136]
The following words and terms, when used in this article, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. All words and terms shall conform to the Vehicle Code.[1]
DEPARTMENT
The Department of Transportation of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
HIGHWAY
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. The term includes a roadway open to the use of the public for vehicular travel on grounds of a college or university or public or private school or public or historical park. (The term "highway" includes the term "street.")
SHALL
Indicates that an action is required or prohibited.
STREET
A "highway" as herein defined.
VEHICLE
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway (street), except devices used exclusively upon tracks or rails.
VEHICLE CODE
Act 81 which amended Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes and as subsequently amended.[2]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 101 et seq.
A maximum speed limit of 40 miles per hour is established for certain streets. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a higher speed than the maximum of 40 miles per hour on any of the following streets:
Name of Street
(Reserved)[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The former entry for Tennis Avenue was removed pursuant to Ord. No. 2009-2, adopted 6-10-2009, which established a speed limit of 35 miles per hour on Tennis Avenue.
A maximum speed limit of 35 miles per hour is established for certain streets. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a higher speed than the maximum of 35 miles per hour on any of the following streets:
Name of Street
Babylon Road
Cedar Hill Road
Chestnut Lane
Dresher Road
Gibraltar Road[1]
Keith Valley Road
Limekiln Pike (SR 0152) (beginning at the pedestrian crossing to the intersection of Limekiln Pike and Horsham Road and extending south on Limekiln Pike to a point 1,000 feet south of the pedestrian crossing at Horsham Road and Limekiln Pike)
[Added 1-12-2011 by Ord. No. 2011-1]
Lower State Road
McKean Road
Meetinghouse Road
Moreland Road
New Road
Park Road
Prudential Road
Stongs Lane
Tennis Avenue
[Added 6-10-2009 by Ord. No. 2009-2]
Witmer Road
[1]
Editor's Note: The former entry for Herman Road, which immediately followed this entry, was removed pursuant to Ord. No. 276, adopted 1-8-2003, which established a speed limit of 25 miles per hour on Herman Road.
A maximum speed limit of 25 miles per hour is established for certain streets. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a vehicle at a higher speed than the maximum of 25 miles per hour on any of the following streets:
Name of Street
Adee Avenue
Appalachian Road
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Apple Hill Road
Arbutus Avenue
Arundel Avenue
Ash Stoker Lane
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Aspen Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Avenue A
Avenue B
Avenue C
Avenue D
Avenue E
Balmoral Way
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Bark Hollow Lane
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Barley Way
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Baron Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Barrel Stave Circle
Bayberry Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Beatrice Avenue
Beaverhill Road
Beech Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Bender Road
Beverly Lane
Birch Avenue
Biwood Road
Blacksmith Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Boulder Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Brandywine Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Brantford Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Bridle Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Broadway Avenue
Brownstone Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Brownstone Lane
Brumar Drive
Buckman Drive
Burgdorf Drive
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Butternut Drive
Calabria Lane
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Canterbury Lane
Caredean Drive
Carpenter's Way
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Carriage Drive
Cat Briar Way
Catherine Way
Cavalry Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Cedar Avenue
Cedarbrook Drive
Central Avenue
Chapel Hill Lane
Chapel Hill West
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Charles Lane
Charter
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Cheswyck Circle
Chowning Circle
Church Road
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Churchill Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Claremont Circle
Clayton Road
Cloverly Lane
Coach Road
Cobblestone Drive
Colby Lane[1]
Colonial Drive
Columbia Avenue
Cornell Avenue
Cottage Avenue
Cottonwood Drive
Country Road
Crabapple Lane
Crestview Road
Cricket Circle
Curry Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Cypress Lane
Danbridge Drive
Davisgrove Road
Derby Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Devon Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Diane Avenue
Dora Avenue
Douglas[2]
Downey Drive
Duke Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Edgely Avenue
Edgewood Avenue
Electronic Drive
Emerson Court[3]
Emily Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Emma Way
Eugenia Road
Evergreen Road
Fair Oaks Avenue
Fairway Road
Fawn Lane
Fieldstone Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Firewood Drive
Flora Avenue
Forrester Road
Franklin Court[4]
Gallen Road
Garden Avenue
Gelding Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Gentry Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Gerstley Road
Gillman Road
Girard Avenue
Glen Acres Drive[5]
Glenview Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Goldenrod Lane
Goldfinch Lane[6]
Grant Avenue
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Greenwoods Drive
Gregory Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Hallowell Avenue
Harcourt Lane
Hastings Drive
Hawk's Flight Court[7]
Heather Lane
Hedgerow Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Hemingway Drive[8]
Hemlock Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Herald Drive[9]
Herman Road
[Added 1-8-2003 by Ord. No. 276]
Hidden Creek Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Highgate Drive[10]
Highland Avenue
Hill Avenue
Holly Drive
Home Road
Homestead Lane
Horseshoe Circle
Horseshoe Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Hunt Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Independence[11]
Indian Creek Way
Inverness Drive
Ivy Lane[12]
Jackladder Circle
Jarrett Road
Jasper Drive[13]
Jefferson Avenue
Jenifer Road
Johnson Road
Joseph Road
Keith Valley Road (from Davis Grove to Horsham)[14]
Lady Violet Drive[15]
Lakeview Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Lamplighter Road
Landis Drive[16]
Langdon Avenue
Lantern Lane
Latchstring Lane
Laurel Avenue
Lawrence Lane
Lesher Lane
Linda Lane
Lindsey Way[17]
Locust Lane
Loggers Mill Road
Log Pond Drive
Lois Road
Long Lane
Lorna Drive
Lumberjack Circle
Mann Road
Maple Avenue
Maple Glen Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Marietta Drive
Marilyn Drive
Maurice Lane
Meadowlark Lane
Meadow View Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Meetinghouse Road
Melody Lane
Michener Drive[18]
Midfield Drive
Milton Avenue
Mimosa Lane
Misty Hollow Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Monument Avenue
Moonflower Road
Morris Road
Mountain Ash Road
Mullin Road
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Myrtle Avenue
Nesbitt Road
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Noble Page Lane[19]
Nottingham Lane
Oakdale Avenue
Oak Hill Drive
Oak Terrace Drive
Olive Avenue
Orchard[20]
Oxford Lane
Paddock Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Paladin Lane[21]
Palmer Avenue
Park Way Road
Patterson Drive
Pearl Avenue
Pebble Drive
Pepper Way
Perry Circle[22]
Pershing Avenue
Pheasant Run
Pine Avenue
Pin Oak Lane
Ponderosa Lane
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Precision Drive
Privet Road
Prospect Avenue
Quince Drive
Red Gum Road
Roberts Avenue
Robin Circle
Rock Road
Roger Road
Rolling Glen Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Rose Lane
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Ruth Avenue
Rutledge Avenue
Salem Lane
Samantha Lane
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Sarah's Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Sawbuck Circle
Saw Mill Lane
Sawyers Way
School Road
Serrill Drive
Settler's Court
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Sheehy Drive
Sherwood Lane
Shetland Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Sill Avenue
Sleepy Hollow Court
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Sourwood Drive
Springbrook Lane
Spur Lane
Squire Drive
St. David's Place
Stallion Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Steeplechase Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Stefwalt Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Sterling Drive
[Amended 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Stoney River Drive
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Sugar Maple Road
Summer Avenue
Summit Avenue
Sun Valley Drive
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Sweet Gum Road
Talamore Drive
[Added 3-10-2021 by Ord. No. 2021-012021-01]
Tall Pines Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Tamarack Lane
Teebox
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Thoreau Drive
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Thornton Road
Timber Road
Treebark Circle
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Tyson Avenue
Upland Avenue
Vestry Drive
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Victoria Lane
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Village Drive
Virginia Lane
Wade Avenue
Walnut Avenue
Walnut Grove Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Washington Avenue
Watson Avenue
Wayne Avenue
Wedge Way
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Westmont Avenue
Wexford Circle
Whetstone Road
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
White Birch Lane
Wild Prairie Court
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Wilhelmina Avenue
Williamson Road
Willowbrook Road
Wilson Avenue
Winchester Drive
[Added 9-13-1995 by Ord. No. 207]
Winding Road
Winston Circle
Woodbridge Circle
Woodland Avenue
Woodlawn Avenue
Worthington Court
[Added 12-14-2005 by Ord. No. 297]
Wynmere Drive
[1]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[2]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[3]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[4]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[5]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[6]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[7]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[8]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[9]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[10]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[11]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[12]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[13]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[14]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[15]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[16]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[17]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[18]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[19]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[20]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[21]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[22]
Editor's Note: Added at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
It is the intent of this article to authorize the posting of speed limits on the above-named streets in accordance with Section 3362(b) of the Vehicle Code,[1] which states "No maximum speed limit under subsection (a)(1) or (3) shall be effective unless posted on fixed or variable official traffic-control devices erected in accordance with regulations adopted by the department, which regulations shall require posting at the beginning and end of each speed zone and at intervals not greater than 1/2 mile."
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3362(b).
Any person violating this section is guilty of a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine in conformance with § 3362(c) of the Vehicle Code[1] and its amended supplements.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3362(c).