Category: Roads
2025 Newtown Township Road Program Out for Bids
Posted on 03 Apr 2025, 01:57 - Category: Roads
The “Dolington Deep Ditch” Must Be Repaired!
Posted on 17 Jul 2024, 01:15 - Category: Roads
2022 Road Paving Schedule
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Posted on 20 Aug 2022, 01:03 - Category: Roads
2020 Road Repair Program
After much delay due to COVID-19 re-allocation of repair funds to the General Fund (read "2020 Road Program Falls Victim to COVID-19" and see below), the revised road repair program is underway.
The 1.0 mill real estate tax slated to be used to borrow money to repave more than 5 miles of roads in 2020 was "re-allocated" to cover General Fund expenses - a drastic move in anticipation of an Earned Income Tax (EIT) revenue shortfall of 8-11% due to the COVID-19 shutdown of local businesses. That shortfall, however, never materialized. According to Keystone Collections, which collects EIT, at the close of August 2020, Bucks Tax Collection District (TCD) ended up with an increase of about $1.6million from 2019. As it stands now, the TCD as a whole is up a little over $55,000.00 in 5th quarter money! Comparing earned income collections for 1/1/20 – 8/31/20 vs 1/1/19 – 8/31/19, Newtown Township specifically is up about $258,000.00 or 4.8%.
At the July 8, 2020, Board of Supervisors meeting (here), the township engineer reported that after discussion with Township staff it was decided to complete the work included under the base bid and alternate bids 7, 8, and 9. The total is roughly 2.8 miles of roads.
The following roads are scheduled to be repaved in 2020:
- Swamp Rd (from the Bypass to Sycamore St)
- Fountain Farm Ln
- Newtown Gate Dr
- Penns St
- Upper Silver Lake Rd (From Newtown Yardley Rd to Vera Ave)
- Silver Lake Rd (between N. Penns Trail & L. Dolington Rd)
- Newtown Yardley Rd (Patch Paving between Tara Blvd & N. Penns Trail)
The Schedule
Posted on 13 Sep 2020, 11:17 - Category: Roads
2019 Newtown Township Road Paving Schedule
This past March, the Newtown Board of Supervisors approved the milling and repaving of 2.73 miles of roadway at a cost of $706,596.20. The currently projected paving schedule is shown in the table below.
UPDATE (July 10, 2019): Due to weather conditions, some paving activities have been delayed. Access the latested REVISED paving schedule here.
See the maps showing the locations of the sections of these roads scheduled to be repaved here.
Read More...Posted on 27 Jun 2019, 12:11 - Category: Roads
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