Cranberry, Seven Fields receive combined $300K for infrastructure improvements
Cranberry Township and Seven Fields are in line to receive a combined $295,670 from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s Green Light Go grant program.
Green Light Go, also known as the Municipal Signal Partnership Program, offers grant funding to municipalities to improve traffic signals and related traffic infrastructure. Grant awards can be used on a few specific types of projects, including but not limited to upgrading existing traffic signals to LED technology, and the upgrade or installation of detection systems.
The nearly $300,000 received by Cranberry and Seven Fields is part of the nearly $30 million distributed to 57 municipalities in 24 counties across Pennsylvania this Green Light Go funding cycle.
Seven Fields received $117,520 to replace outdated sensors with a radar detection system.
Cranberry Township received a total of $178,150 for two separate funding requests: $83,350 to expand the township’s fiber-optic traffic signal communication system and $94,800 for upgrades to detection equipment at multiple intersections across the township.
“It’s signalization upgrades, detection upgrades at signals … all types of upgrades to existing traffic signals and signal boxes across the township,” said Cranberry Township manager Dan Santoro.
Some of the intersections targeted for upgrades include Haine School Road at Rochester Road, Rochester Road at Powell Road, Franklin Road at Peters Road and Rowan Road at the entrance to Rowan Elementary School.
“Work will happen throughout all of next year. It will start in the spring, as soon as the weather breaks,” Santoro said. “We’ll begin to address individual intersections as we get to them. It won’t be one continuous project. We’re going to do the upgrades to this intersection and then next week we’ll move to the next intersection.”
