[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
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
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Academy Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Ashland Avenue
|
Academy Avenue and Township line
|
25 mph
| |
|
Ashland Avenue
|
Other portions
|
15 mph
| |
|
Bartram Avenue
|
Ashland Avenue and Oak Lane
|
15 mph
| |
|
Beech Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Briarcliffe Road
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Brookwood Lane
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Cedar Wood Lane
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Crescent Drive
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Garfield Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Glen Haven Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Hillcrest Drive
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Hopkins Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Keighler Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Lawnton Terrace
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Madison Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Magnolia Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Maple Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Meridian Road
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Oakwood Drive
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Park Drive
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Pine Street
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Poplar Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Rively Avenue
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Spruce Street
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Stratford Drive
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Surrey Lane
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Tremont Drive
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
| |
|
Westbridge Road
|
Entire length
|
15 mph
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. 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. 572, 10/10/1990]
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 shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. 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. 572, 10/10/1990]
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 shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. 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. 572, 10/10/1990]
1.
A speed limit of 35 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 shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35. 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. 572, 10/10/1990; as amended by Ord. 681, 11/16/2009]
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
| |
|---|---|
|
Bartram Avenue and Oak Lane
| |
|
Calcon Hook Road and Hook Road
| |
|
Clifton Avenue and Hook Road
| |
|
MacDade Boulevard and Oak Lane
| |
|
Rively Avenue and Oak Lane
| |
|
Sharon Avenue and Hook Road
| |
|
Tribbitt Avenue and Hook Road
|
2.
Any driver of a vehicle who disobeys the directions of any traffic
signal shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and
costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
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
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990; as amended by Ord. 686, 3/10/2010;
and by Ord. 695, 4/13/2011]
1.
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
|
Time
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Academy Avenue
|
Cooke Avenue
|
Ashland Avenue
|
West
|
All
| |
|
Ash Street
|
Sharon Avenue
|
Clifton Avenue
|
West
|
All
| |
|
Barker Road
|
Ash Street
|
Laurel Street
|
North
|
All
| |
|
Bartram Avenue
|
Ashland Avenue
|
Cooke Avenue
|
East
|
Mon. — Fri., 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
| |
|
Burnside Road
|
Laurel Street
|
Ash Street
|
South
|
All
| |
|
Garfield Avenue
|
Academy Avenue
|
Ashland Avenue
|
East
|
All
| |
|
Jackson Avenue
|
Sharon Avenue
|
Clifton Avenue
|
West
|
All
| |
|
Laurel Avenue
|
Clifton Avenue
|
Sharon Avenue
|
East
|
All
| |
|
Laurel Road
|
Burnside Road
|
End
|
West
|
All
| |
|
Linden Avenue
|
Clifton Avenue
|
Sharon Avenue
|
East
|
All
| |
|
Orange Street
|
Sharon Avenue
|
Clifton Avenue
|
West
|
All
| |
|
Park Drive
|
Hillcrest Drive
|
Stratford Road
|
North
|
All
| |
|
Pine Road
|
Ash Street
|
Laurel Street
|
North
|
All
| |
|
Pine Street
|
Montgomery Avenue
|
Spruce Street
|
West
|
All
| |
|
Spruce Street
|
Pine Street
|
Montgomery Avenue
|
East
|
All
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
1.
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)
|
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. 572, 10/10/1990]
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
|
Into
|
When
|
Type of Vehicle Applicable to
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
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 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)
| ||||
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
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 shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
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
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Ashland Avenue
|
Academy Avenue and Upper Darby Township building line
|
2.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
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 Section 3323(b) or 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 shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990; as amended by Ord. 651, 4/14/2004;
and by Ord. 686, 3/10/2010]
1.
It shall be the duty of the Police Department to enforce the provisions
of this section.
2.
It shall be unlawful for any person to refuse to comply with any
lawful order or direction of a police officer.
3.
All vehicles shall be brought to a full stop before entering the
following intersections:
|
Stop Street
|
Intersecting or Through Street
|
Direction of Travel
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Academy Avenue
|
Ashland Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Academy Avenue
|
Cooke Avenue
|
3way
| |
|
Academy Avenue
|
Crescent Drive
| ||
|
Academy Avenue
|
Gardner Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Academy Avenue
|
Grobes Avenue
|
2-way
| |
|
Academy Avenue
|
Oak Lane
|
1-way
| |
|
Alicia Court
|
Ashland Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Ash Road
|
Burnside Road
|
3-way
| |
|
Ash Road
|
Clifton Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Ash Road
|
Pine Road
|
3-way
| |
|
Ash Road
|
Sharon Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Ashland Avenue
|
Briarcliffe Road
|
3-way
| |
|
Ashland Avenue
|
Garfield Road
|
4-way
| |
|
Ashland Avenue
|
Glenhaven Road
|
3-way
| |
|
Ashland Avenue
|
Poplar Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Ashland Avenue
|
Stratford Road
|
4-way
| |
|
Barker Road
|
Ash Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Barker Road
|
Laurel Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Bartram Avenue
|
Ashland Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Bartram Avenue
|
Chestnut Street
|
3-way (new)
| |
|
Bartram Avenue
|
Cooke Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Bayard Avenue
|
Calcon Hook Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Beech Avenue
|
Ashland Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Beech Avenue
|
Madison Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Beech Avenue
|
Maple Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Beech Avenue
|
Maple Street
|
2-way
| |
|
Beech Avenue
|
Poplar Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Brookwood Lane
|
Westbridge Road
|
2-way
| |
|
Burnside Road
|
Hook Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Burnside Road
|
Laurel Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Burton Avenue
|
Forrester Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Burton Avenue
|
Hook Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Burton Avenue
|
Lincoln Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Burton Avenue
|
Newlin Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Burton Avenue
|
Noblet Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Burton Avenue
|
Walter Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Calcon Drive
|
Clifton Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Calcon Hook Road
|
Tribbett Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Cedarwood Road
|
Briarcliffe Road
|
3-way
| |
|
Cedarwood Road
|
Glenhaven Road
|
3-way
| |
|
Clifton Avenue
|
Forrester Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Clifton Avenue
|
Laurel Road
|
4-way
| |
|
Clifton Avenue
|
Linden Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Clifton Avenue
|
Roosevelt Drive
|
3-way
| |
|
Clifton Avenue
|
Tribbett Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Cooke Avenue
|
Garfield Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Cooke Avenue
|
Hopkins Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Felton Avenue
|
Linden Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Felton Avenue
|
Orange Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Greenhill Road
|
Hook Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Greenhill Road
|
Laurel Road
|
2-way
| |
|
Greenhill Road
|
Linden Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Hopkins Avenue
|
Ashland Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Industrial Drive
|
Hook Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Jackson Street
|
Calcon Hook Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Jackson Street
|
Felton Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Jackson Street
|
Sharon Avenue
|
2-way
| |
|
Keighler Avenue
|
Poplar Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Laurel Road
|
Clifton Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Laurel Road
|
Felton Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Laurel Road
|
Sharon Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Lawnton Terrace
|
Ashland Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Lawnton Terrace
|
Madison Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Lawnton Terrace
|
Maple Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Lawnton Terrace
|
Poplar Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Magnolia Avenue
|
Madison
|
3-way
| |
|
Magnolia Avenue
|
Oak Lane
|
1-way
| |
|
Maple Avenue
|
Keighler Avenue
|
1-way
| |
|
Oakwood Drive
|
Briarcliffe Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Oakwood Drive
|
Brookwood Lane
|
3-way
| |
|
Oakwood Drive
|
Meridian Road
|
3-way
| |
|
Oakwood Drive
|
Westbridge Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Orange Avenue
|
Clifton Avenue
|
2-way
| |
|
Orange Avenue
|
Sharon Avenue
|
2-way
| |
|
Park Drive
|
Crescent Drive
|
3-way
| |
|
Park Drive
|
Hillcrest Drive
|
1-way
| |
|
Park Drive
|
Oakwood Drive
|
3-way
| |
|
Park Drive
|
Stratford Road
|
1-way
| |
|
Park Drive
|
Surrey Lane
|
3-way
| |
|
Pine Road
|
Laurel Road
|
2-way
| |
|
Pine Street
|
Beech Avenue
|
2-way
| |
|
Rively Avenue
|
Beech Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Rively Avenue
|
Madison Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Rively Avenue
|
Maple Avenue
|
2-way
| |
|
Rively Avenue
|
School Lane
|
3-way
| |
|
Sharon Avenue
|
Linden Avenue
|
2-way
| |
|
Spruce Street
|
340 Spruce Street
|
1-way
| |
|
Stratford Road
|
Hillcrest Drive
|
1-way
| |
|
Stratford Road
|
Oakwood Drive
|
4-way
| |
|
Stratford Road
|
Surrey Lane
|
3-way
| |
|
Stratford Road
|
Westbridge Road
|
3-way
| |
|
Tremont Drive
|
Brookwood Lane
|
3-way
| |
|
Tremont Drive
|
Meridian Road
|
3-way
| |
|
Tremont Drive
|
Westbridge Road
|
2-way
| |
|
Tribbett Avenue
|
Forrester Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Tribbett Avenue
|
Hermesprota Drive
|
3-way
| |
|
Tribbett Avenue
|
Kaiser Drive
|
3-way (Folcroft)
| |
|
Tribbett Avenue
|
Lincoln Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Tribbett Avenue
|
Newlin Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Tribbett Avenue
|
Noblet Avenue
|
4-way
| |
|
Tribbett Avenue
|
Walter Avenue
|
3-way
| |
|
Walter Avenue
|
Hermesprota Drive
|
2-way
|
4.
Signs in the shape provided for by law shall be erected at each of
the intersections indicating the stops hereinbefore provided. The
word "Stop" in letters at least six inches high shall be imprinted
on said signs.
5.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to violate
any of the provisions of this section, its supplements or amendments;
and, upon conviction for any violation before a justice of the peace
of any of the provisions of this section, said violator shall be fined
not less than $25 nor more than $1,000 for each violation; and upon
default of payment of the fine imposed and costs, said violator shall
be sentenced to the Township lockup for a period not exceeding five
days or the county jail for a period not exceeding 30 days.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
1.
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 15-213) 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 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 shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
1.
The following areas upon the streets in the Township are established
as play highways:
|
Street
|
Between
|
Days
|
Hours
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||||
2.
The Township Manager 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 Township Manager.
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 Township Manager
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 shall,
upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
1.
The following roads and streets within the Township are designated
as special snowmobile roads:
|
Street or Road
|
Between
|
Used by Snowmobiles 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 that nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from
operating a snowmobile on any other street in the Township:
3.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be subject
to the penalties prescribed in Section 7752(a) of the Vehicle Code.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
1.
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, transport, exhibit or sale of
goods, wares or merchandise.
2.
It shall be unlawful for any person to propel a pushcart upon any sidewalk in any business district except as necessary to move the pushcart to a location from which it is to be loaded or unloaded or from which goods, wares or merchandise are to be sold or dispensed under permit from Board of Commissioners as provided in Subsection 3 of this section.
3.
It shall be unlawful for any person to park a pushcart upon any sidewalk
except for the purpose of selling or dispensing from that pushcart
goods, wares or merchandise to passersby under permit from Board of
Commissioners. Every such permit shall be issued to the person making
application for the permit, upon payment of a fee, which shall be
for the use of the Township, of $100 for any calendar year, $50 for
any six-month period, or $25 for any three-month period. The permit
shall be granted to the applicant, upon payment of the fee, and upon
his signing an agreement with Board of Commissioners that he shall
be bound by the conditions imposed by Board of Commissioners and made
a part of the permit, dealing with the following matters:
A.
Restricting or limiting the parking of the pushcart to one or more
stated locations upon the sidewalk and to stated days and hours at
each location;
B.
Stating requirements to be adhered to in connection with the disposal
of garbage and refuse resulting from the operations carried on;
C.
Requiring that there be no violation of any law, ordinance or regulation
pertaining to health, sanitation and the handling of food or drink.
4.
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 of
$25 and costs.
[Ord. 572, 10/10/1990]
1.
It shall be unlawful for any person to ride on a sled upon any sidewalk in the Township, or upon any roadway unless that roadway is on a portion of a street blocked off for sledding by authority of § 15-105 of Part 1 or § 15-216 of Part 2 of this chapter; provided that nothing in this subsection shall prevent a pedestrian from pulling a sled, with or without a rider, upon a sidewalk.
2.
It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in rollerskating or
to ride upon or propel any coaster or other toy vehicle upon:
3.
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $5 and costs.
[Added by Ord. 681, 11/16/2009]
