[Ord. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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
Speed Limit
(mph)
Between
Ash Road (T411)
35
Old Rt. 68 to Spithaler Road
Ash Stop Road (T411)
35
T415 to Rt. 68 and Rt. 68 to T354
Beacon Road (T831)
40
Rt. 10014 to Penn Township line
Birch Street (T322)
35
Rt. 309 for a distance of 0.13 miles
Browns Mill Road (T354)
35
Rt. 10014 to T380
Buhl Road (T413)
35
Cashdollar Road (T354)
35
T830 to Adams Township line
Community Park Road (T413)
35
T415 to T360
Creek Road (T503)
35
Rader School Road to Penn Township line
Critchlow Road (T382)
35
Rt. 10014 to Rt. 10011
Distillery Road (T382)
35
Rt. 10011 to Penn Township line
Dufferd Road (T411)
35
Rt. 10043 to Old Rt. 68
Eckstein Road (T435)
35
Rt. 10095 to Rader School Road
Evans City Park Road
35
T360 a distance of 0.2 miles
George Road (T320)
35
Adams Township to Jackson Township
Glade Run Road (T388)
35
Rt. 10014 to Rt. 10011
Glenwood Avenue (T321)
35
Rt. 309 a distance of 0.18 miles
Johns School Road (T432)
35
T407 to T388
Liesie Road (T407)
40
Rt. 10014 to Browns Mill Road
Marburger Road (T358)
35
Adams Township line a distance of 0.5 mile Rt. 309 to T830
Margaret Avenue (T504)
35
Evans City line a distance of 0.15 miles
May Lane (T374)
35
Evans City line a distance of 0.80 miles
Needlepoint Road (T360)
35
T411 to Rt. 10044
Nursery Road (T354)
35
Rt. 10095 to Connoquenessing Township
Old Rt. 68 (T415)
40
Rt. 68 to Rt. 68
Rader School Road (T503)
35
T354 to Creek Road
Royal Oak Road (T491)
35
Rt. 10092 to Penn Township
Smith Road (T450)
35
Connoquenessing to Penn Township
Spithaler Road (T354)
35
Reibold Road to Ash Stop Road
Spithaler School Road (T354)
35
Rt. 10014 to Rt. 10095
Stuckey Road (T696)
35
T503 to T831
Tunnel Road (T409)
35
Rt. 10014 to Browns Mill Road
Wagner Road (T324)
35
T320 to Adams Township
Wahl Road (T720)
35
Rt. 10042 a distance of 0.22 miles
Watters Station Road
40
Rt. 309 to Rt. 10011
Wonderland Park Road (T820)
35
T411 a distance of 0.12 miles
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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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
Maxi- mum Speed Limit
Required to Stop Before Proceed- ing 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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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 of Forward, 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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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
Type of Signal
(Reserved)
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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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
(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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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:
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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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 shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25, and costs.
[Ord. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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,[1] 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)
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(b) or (c).
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25, and costs.
[Ord. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
1. 
The following intersections (in addition to intersections with the through highways established by § 15-213) 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 of 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 Section 3323(b) of the Vehicle Code,[1] 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
Andrew Avenue T505
Ash Alley
Southwest
Ash Alley
LR68
Northwest
Ash Stop Road T411
LR68
East and west
Ash Stop Road T411
Old Rt. 68 T415
West
Birch Street T322
Mars Evans City Road LR309
Northeast
Browns Mill Road T354
Brownsdale Road LR10014
North and south
Browns Mill Road T354
Spithaler School Road T354
North
Browns Mill Road T354
Watters Station Road T830
North
Buhl Road T413
LR68
Northwest and Southeast
Buhl Road T413
Old Rt. 68 T415
North
Buhl Road T413
Spithaler School Road T354
East
Cashdollar Road T354
Watters Station Road T830
North
Charlotte Drive
Stuckey Road T696
West
Community Park Road T413
Old Rt. 68 T415
East
Critchlow Road T382
Brownsdale Road LR10014
Northwest
Critchlow Road T382
Valencia Road LR10011
Southeast
Dufford Road T411
LR528
West
Dufford Road T411
Old Rt. 68 T415
Southeast
Eckstein Road T435
Rader School Road T503
East
Eckstein Road T435
Reibold Road LR10095
West
Evans City Park Road
Needle Point Road T360
East
George Road T320
Wagner Road T324
Southeast
Glade Run Road T388
Brownsdale Road LR10014
North
Glade Run Road T388
Leisie Road T407
North and south
Glade Run Road T388
Valencia Road LR10011
Southeast
Glenwood Avenue T321
Mars Evans City Road LR309
Northeast
Johns School Road T423
Glade Run Road T388
East
Johns School Road T432
Leisie Road T407
West
Leisie Road T407
Browns Mill Road T354
West
Leisie Road T407
Valencia Road LR10011
East
Marburger Road T358
Watters Station Road T830
North
Margaret Avenue T504
Ash Alley
Northeast
Needle Point Road T360
Community Park Road T413
North
Needle Point Road T360
Dufford Road T411
South
Needle Point Road T360
Upper Harmony Road LR10044
North
Nursery Road T354
Reibold Road LR10095
West
Oak Drive
LR68
West
Old Route 68 T 415
LR68 (Buhl Hill)
East
Old Route 68 T 415
LR68 (Sod Farm)
East
Rader School Road T503
Nursery Road T354
North
Royal Oak Drive T491
3° Road LR10092
West
Spithaler School Road T354
Reibold Road LR10095
West
Stuckey Road T696
Beacon Road LR10015
Southeast
Textor Hill Road T332
LR528
Southeast
Tunnel Road T409
Brownsdale Road LR10014
Northwest
Tunnel Road T409
Browns Mill Road T354
Southeast
Watters Station Road T380
Mars Evans City Road LR309
West
Watters Station Road T380
Valencia Road LR10011
East
Wonderland Park Road T820
Ash Stop Road T411
North
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(b).
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25, and costs.
[Ord. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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,[1] and then yield the right-of-way as required by that subsection of the Vehicle Code.
Yield Street
Through Street
Direction of Travel
(Reserved)
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 3323(c).
2. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25, and costs.
[Ord. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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 shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25, and costs.
[Ord. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
1. 
The following roads and streets within the Township of Forward 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 nothing in this section shall prohibit any person from operating a snowmobile on any other street in the Township.
A. 
As authorized by Section 7721 of the Vehicle Code[1] for emergency and bridge crossings and for direct crossing of streets or two-lane highways; or
[1]
Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 7721.
B. 
For special snowmobile events where authorized in advance and the street is blocked off as provided in Section 7723 of the Vehicle Code.[2] Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in Section 7752(a) of the Vehicle Code.[3]
[2]
Editor's Note: Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 7723.
[3]
Editor's Note: Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 7752(a).
[Ord. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
No motor vehicle or motorcycle or minibike shall be operated on any lands owned by the Township or any other public body or agency within the Township, except on those lands specifically designated for the operation of motor vehicles, motorcycles or minibikes by resolution of the Board of Supervisors.
[Ord. No. 1988-2, 12/13/1988]
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 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 roller-skating or to ride upon or propel any coaster or other toy vehicle upon:
A. 
Any street except in order to cross the roadway; or
B. 
Any sidewalk located in a business district, except that nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a pedestrian from pulling a coaster or other toy vehicle, with or without a rider, upon a sidewalk.
3. 
Any person who violates any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $5, and costs.