![]() ![]() ![]() Last weekend Friends of Marshall Square Park and West Chester Park and Rec held their first ever Santa in the Park event to line-zagging success. Image: Marshall Square Park via Facebook. “We’ve been talking about this for a longtime,” said Councilman Don Braceland.īoth items left committee with a 3-0 recommendation and will move to the full Council next week for final approval. The project, which is being supported in large part by a grant from PennDot’s Green Light Go, will help correct the timing on the Borough street lights so that hopefully it’s nothing green lights ahead. Another project that has long been on the borough radar is the upgrading of traffic signals and video detection systems at 18 downtown intersections. Revamp the traffic light system – cost $508,839.The project is expected to take roughly four months to complete. If the budget is approved next week as expected, installation could begin as early as January. Then, a week and a half ago the Public Works department took possession of the Verizon light nodes and are now looking for approval to pay the workers who will install the parts on the borough’s nearly 1000 street lights. Earlier this year, the Borough agreed to contract with Verizon on the parts for an intelligent lighting solution. The cause of the problems was identified as a software issue affecting individual light poles. For over a year, West Chester has been experiencing issues with its street lights flickering, changing intensity and turning on when they are not supposed to, off when they shouldn’t. ![]() The requests, whose costs total nearly $650,000, will hopefully set some long awaited projects into motion. This week Public Works Director Alberto Vennettilli went to the Borough Council Public Works Committee with some asks. After more than a year, West Chester is finally ready to fix the street lights. Plus, vague threats targeting two West Chester schools lead some parents to pull students in a panic, a new borough holiday tradition and the pizza place that has everyone talking. It’s Friday, December 10. West Chester finally looks to get some movement on a couple of long delayed projects – fixing the lights and fixing the traffic flow. Thousands came to downtown West Chester last Friday to witness (and record) the annual tree lighting ceremony. ![]()
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