Update: In a follow-up email, the deputy borough manager said the project will take longer than two weeks. Schedule updates will be announced as they come in. End update.
Kennett Square is making some changes to improve pedestrian safety in the borough. The borough is taking part in a PennDOT Safer Routes project, the Pedestrian Safer Access Project that’s expected to run through Feb. 3.
This project will impact traffic on S. Walnut Street, Birch Street, the 600 block of Broad Street, and South Street from Broad to Pennock Park.
According to Sonny Greco, the deputy borough manager, the Pedestrian Safer Access Project involves repairing and renovating sidewalks, and possibly adding ADA ramps and crosswalks.
“It’s my understanding no roads will be shut down, only lane closures,” Greco said in an email exchange Tuesday afternoon. “The project involves S. Walnut Street intersections from State Street to Birch Street, then the intersection of Birch Street and S. Broad Street, and from there, the intersection of S. Broad Street and E South Street.”
He added that sidewalks would be added to W. South Street.
Work will be limited to daytime hours, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. The construction schedule can be found here.
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Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
