No person shall operate a motor vehicle or tractor upon any
sidewalk in the Borough; nor shall any person operate a motor vehicle
upon or across any sidewalk except in order to gain access to or egress
from a driveway or alley at such locations where the curb, if such
sidewalk is curbed, shall have been properly cut down for the purpose.
The speed limit for both directions of traffic along the highways
or parts thereof described below is hereby established at the rate
of speed indicated.
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Name of Highway
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Speed limit
(mph)
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|
|
Eighth Avenue
|
25
|
Entire length
|
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Waterfront Drive
|
25
|
Entire length
|
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All other local streets
|
25
|
Entire Borough
|
Traffic control signals shall be installed and operated at the
intersection of those highways described below.
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Intersection
|
|---|
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Eighth Avenue and City Farm Lane
|
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Eighth Avenue and Dixon Street
|
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Eighth Avenue and McClure Street
|
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Eighth Avenue and Ann Street
|
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Eighth Avenue and Amity Street
|
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Eighth Avenue and West Street
|
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Eighth Avenue and Hays Street
|
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Thirteenth Avenue and West Street
|
The highways or parts of highways described below are hereby
designated as one-way streets in the direction indicated.
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Name of Highway
|
Direction of Travel
|
Limits
|
|---|---|---|
|
Hazel Way
|
East
|
Between West Street and McClure Street
|
|
McClure Street
|
North
|
Between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue
|
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Ninth Avenue
|
West
|
Between McClure Street and Hays Street
|
|
Sixth Avenue
|
West
|
Between McClure Street and Hays Street
|
|
West Fourteenth Avenue
|
East
|
Between Sarah Street and Hays Street
|
|
West Fifteenth Avenue
|
East
|
Between Sylvan Avenue and Hays Street
|
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West Sixteenth Avenue
|
East
|
Along the 100 block of West Sixteenth Avenue
|
It shall be unlawful for the operator of a motor vehicle or
tractor to make a U-turn on any of the highways or parts thereof described
below.
|
Name of Highway
|
Location
|
|---|---|
|
Eighth Avenue
|
Entire length
|
|
Waterfront Drive
|
Entire length
|
No person shall make a turn of the kind designated (left, right,
all) at any of the intersections described below.
|
Name of Highway
|
Direction of Travel
|
Prohibited Turn
|
At Intersection of
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Amity Street
|
North
|
Left
|
East Fifth Avenue
|
|
East Fifth Avenue
|
West
|
Left
|
Amity Street
|
|
West Bridge Ramp
|
East
|
Left
|
Homestead Grays Bridge
|
|
East Bridge Ramp
|
West
|
Left
|
Homestead Grays Bridge
|
|
Eighth Avenue
|
East
|
Left
|
Walgreens
|
|
Waterfront Drive
|
West
|
Left
|
McDonalds
|
All vehicular traffic shall keep to the right of the following
structures or barriers located in the center of the specified intersections.
|
Name of Highway
|
At Intersection of
|
|---|---|
|
Eighth Avenue
|
Entrance of Walgreens Parking Lot
|
|
Waterfront Drive
|
Entrance of McDonalds Access Lane
|
The highways described below are hereby established as through
highways, and the operator of every vehicle or tractor upon approaching
any such highway at any intersection thereof (except for such intersections
where there are now or shall hereafter be located official traffic
signals) shall come to a full stop, within a reasonable distance,
before entering any such through highway.
|
Name of Highway
|
Limits
|
|---|---|
|
Amity Street
|
Between Seventh Avenue and Twelfth Avenue
|
|
Ann Street
|
Between Seventh Avenue and Thirteenth Avenue
|
The intersections described below are hereby established as
stop intersections, and official stop signs shall be erected in such
a position upon the first-named highway as to face traffic approaching
the second-named highway in the direction or directions indicated.
All vehicles and tractors approaching any such intersection upon the
first-named highway, in the direction or directions indicated in each
case, shall come to a full stop, within a reasonable distance, before
entering any such intersection.
|
Stop Sign on
|
Direction of Travel
|
At Intersection of
|
|---|---|---|
|
Amity Street
|
Both
|
East Tenth Street
|
|
Amity Street
|
Both
|
East Eleventh Street
|
|
Amity Street
|
Both
|
Sixteenth Street
|
|
Amity Street
|
Both
|
Eleventh Street
|
|
Eighteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
McClure Street
|
|
Eighteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Maple Street
|
|
Eighteenth Avenue
|
West
|
West Street
|
|
Eleventh Avenue
|
East
|
McClure Street
|
|
Fifteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Glenn Street
|
|
Fifteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
West Street
|
|
Fifteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Hays Street
|
|
Fifteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Mifflin Street
|
|
Fifteenth Avenue
|
West
|
Glenn Avenue
|
|
Fourteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Sarah Street
|
|
Fourteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Hays Street
|
|
Fourteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Glenn Street
|
|
Fourteenth Avenue
|
East
|
Mifflin Street
|
|
Glenn Avenue
|
Both
|
Thirteenth Avenue
|
|
Glenn Avenue
|
Both
|
Fourteenth Avenue
|
|
Hays Street
|
Both
|
West Seventh Avenue
|
|
Hays Street
|
Both
|
Thirteenth Avenue
|
|
Hays Street
|
Both
|
Fourteenth Avenue
|
|
Hays Street
|
Both
|
Fifteenth Avenue
|
|
Heisel Street
|
South
|
Eighth Avenue
|
|
Maple Street
|
Both
|
Seventeenth Avenue
|
|
Maple Street
|
Both
|
Eighteenth Avenue
|
|
McClure Street
|
Both
|
Sixteenth Avenue
|
|
McClure Street
|
Both
|
Seventeenth Avenue
|
|
McClure Street
|
Both
|
Eighteenth Avenue
|
|
McClure Street
|
Both
|
Nineteenth Avenue
|
|
Mifflin Street
|
Both
|
Fifteenth Avenue
|
|
Mifflin Street
|
South
|
Sixteenth Avenue
|
|
Nineteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
McClure Street
|
|
Ninth Avenue
|
West
|
Amity Street
|
|
Ninth Avenue
|
West
|
West Street
|
|
Sarah Street
|
Both
|
Thirteenth Avenue
|
|
Sarah Street
|
Both
|
Fourteenth Avenue
|
|
Seventeenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Maple Street
|
|
Seventeenth Avenue
|
Both
|
McClure Street
|
|
Seventh Avenue
|
Both
|
Ann Street
|
|
Seventh Avenue
|
Both
|
Amity Street
|
|
Seventh Avenue
|
Both
|
Hays Street
|
|
Sixteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
McClure Street
|
|
Sixteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Mifflin Street
|
|
Sixteenth Avenue
|
West
|
Hays Street
|
|
Sixth Avenue
|
Both
|
Ann Street
|
|
Sixth Avenue
|
Both
|
Amity Street
|
|
Sixth Avenue
|
West
|
Hays Street
|
|
Sylvan Avenue
|
South
|
Fifteenth Avenue
|
|
Sylvan Avenue
|
South
|
West Thirteenth Avenue
|
|
Tenth Avenue
|
East
|
McClure Street
|
|
Thirteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
McClure Street
|
|
Thirteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Sarah Street
|
|
Thirteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Hays Street
|
|
Thirteenth Avenue
|
Both
|
Glenn Street
|
|
Thirteenth Avenue
|
West
|
Sylvan Street
|
|
Twelfth Avenue
|
Both
|
West Street
|
|
Twelfth Avenue
|
East
|
Amity Street
|
|
Twentieth Avenue
|
East
|
McClure Street
|
|
West Seventh Avenue
|
Both
|
Hays Street
|
The intersections described below are hereby established as
yield right-of-way intersections, and official yield signs shall be
erected in such a position upon the first-named highway as to face
traffic approaching the second-named highway in the direction or directions
indicated. All vehicles and tractors approaching any such intersection
upon the first-named highway, in the direction or directions indicated,
shall yield the right-of-way to any vehicle in the intersection or
approaching on the second-named highway so closely as to constitute
an immediate hazard during the time that the operator of such vehicle
or tractor is moving across or within such intersection.
|
Yield Sign on
|
Direction of Travel
|
At Intersection of
|
|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| ||
The zones described below are hereby established as no-passing
zones and it shall be unlawful for any person driving a vehicle to
pass any other vehicle which is proceeding in the same direction.
|
Highway
|
Limits
|
|---|---|
|
West Street
|
From Eighth Avenue to Eighteenth Avenue
|
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle or
tractor, except a passenger vehicle (but not including any passenger
vehicle drawing any trailer or towing any other vehicle) upon any
of the portions of the highways described below.
|
Name of Highway
|
Limits
|
|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any motor vehicle
or other vehicle, tractor, trailer or tractor-trailer combination,
having a gross weight in excess of 12,000 pounds, on any highway in
the Borough of Homestead except:
|
Name of Highway
|
Limits
|
|---|---|
|
Amity Street
|
Entire length
|
|
Eighth Avenue
|
Entire length
|
|
Seventh Avenue
|
Entire length
|
|
Twelfth Avenue, East
|
Between Amity Street and West Street
|
|
West Street
|
Entire length
|
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle or
tractor upon any highway in the Borough that is under construction,
resurfacing or repair, in disregard of any official sign, barricade
or notice that the same is closed to vehicular traffic.
1.
The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to designate as play highways,
whenever he shall deem such action advisable, and for whatever period
of time directed by him, any portion of any highway in the Borough,
whereon sledding and coasting shall be permitted. Such highway shall
be set apart for the purpose under the direction of the Chief of Police.
2.
No person shall operate any motor vehicle or tractor upon any play
highway at any time when such highway shall be so designated, except
in case of emergency, with special permission of the Chief of Police
or of the police officer in charge, who shall first clear such play
highway of all persons using such highway for the purpose for which
it was set aside.
3.
The portions of highways described below are hereby established as
play highways during the times designated.
|
Name of Highway
|
Days
|
Hours
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
(Reserved)
| |||
The operator of any motor vehicle involved in an accident in
the Borough and required by law to report such accident to any department
or agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or any other person
required to make such report, shall, at the time of making such report
to the commonwealth, make a written report to the Chief of Police
of the Borough containing the same information.
