Automated Red-Light Enforcement grants will support 51 safety projects in 44 municipalities.
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced today that it will invest over $27 million through the Automated Red-Light Enforcement (ARLE) program to support 51 safety projects across 44 municipalities statewide. Today’s funding announcement brings PennDOT’s total investment through the ARLE program to over $60 million to support 121 safety projects since the Shapiro Administration took office in 2023 - delivering on the Administration’s commitment to make communities safer and more connected.
“Under Governor Shapiro’s leadership, we’re making important investments in communities across the Commonwealth that make a real difference in the lives of Pennsylvanians,” said PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll. “The ARLE program helps municipalities improve traffic flow and safety at intersections, not only for drivers, but for pedestrians, cyclists, and other road users. I’m proud that PennDOT continues to invest directly in communities through programs like ARLE, delivering real results for Pennsylvanians.”
Pennsylvania’s ARLE program aims to improve safety at intersections with traffic signals by providing automated enforcement at locations where data shows red-light running has been an issue. Grant funding is supplied by fines from red light violations at intersections in Philadelphia. State law specifies that projects improving safety, enhancing mobility and reducing congestion can be considered for funding. Municipalities submitted 113 applications, totaling over $67 million in requests.
Projects were selected by an eight-member committee based on such criteria as safety benefits and effectiveness, cost, and local and regional impact.
The 51 approved projects are as follows:
Adams County
- Straban Township: $105,000 to update signs, pavement markings, and pedestrian lighting at the pedestrian crossing of Old Harrisburg Road and Johnson Drive.
Allegheny County
- Allegheny County: $48,088 to install five speed tables/humps along Ravine Street from Route 837 (E. 8th Street) to the Munhall Borough/West Mifflin Borough line.
- McCandless Township: $134,415 to replace faded school crossing signage, install rectangular rapid flashing beacons, and upgrade all school zone flashing signals located within the township.
- Pine Township: $355,574 to replace five-section left turn signals with flashing yellow arrows and install updated controllers across the township, as well as replacing mast arms at the intersections of Route 19 and Bradford Road, and Route 910 and Pearce Mill Road.
- City of Pittsburgh: $805,533 for the replacement and modernization of the traffic signal at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Dithridge Street.
Blair County
- City of Altoona: $464,905.60 for signal upgrades at the intersection of Pleasant Valley Boulevard and 27th Street/ Duff Drive.
Bucks County
- Bristol Borough: $51,534.45 for safety improvements to the signalized intersection of Bristol Pike and Green Lane.
- Yardley Borough: $263,235.90 to upgrade pedestrian crossings at six locations. Upgrades include new ADA-compliant curb ramps, new crosswalks, upgraded signage, and installation of rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFB) at three of the intersections. Locations listed below:
- S. Main Street at Yardley Commons
- S. Main Street and Letchworth Ave
- W. Afton Avenue at Penn Valley
- S. Main Street and Reading Avenue (RRFB installation candidate).
- S. Main Street and College Avenue (RRFB installation candidate).
- W. Afton Avenue and Breece Drive (RRFB installation candidate).
Butler County
- Center Township: $547,056 for the replacement of the signal equipment at Route 8 and Summit Road/Clearview Mall Access B.
- Penn Township: $626,978 to install a traffic signal at the intersection of Route 8 and Brownsdale Road/Church Road.
Carbon County
- Lehighton School District: $230,000 to restripe Ninth Street and Bridge Street to provide 75-foot northbound and 75-foot southbound left turn lanes, as well as the installation of a traffic signal and ADA pedestrian accommodations.
Centre County
- College Township: $203,061.75 for safety, technology, and coordination upgrades at the below four intersections:
- Route 26 and Squirrel Drive.
- Route 26 and Elmwood Street/Millbrook Way.
- Route 26 and U.S. 322 East.
- Route 26 and U.S. 322 West.
- Ferguson Township: $337,704 for pedestrian crossing improvements at the intersections of Science Park Road at Tudek/Circleville bike path, Martin Street and Park Crest Lane, and Martin Street at Park Crest Terrace Apartments.
Chester County
- Downingtown Borough: $65,469.49 for lane configuration and detection upgrades at the intersection of Wallace Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue, as well as detection upgrades at two adjacent intersections within the borough.
- Downingtown Borough: $94,812.42 to enhance the existing midblock pedestrian crossing along Pennsylvania Avenue at Kerr Park.
- East Caln Township: $257,187 for the replacement of all outdated signal heads with new heads at all signalized intersections as well as replacing five-section left-turn signal heads with four-section flashing yellow arrow signal heads.
Cumberland County
- Mechanicsburg Borough: $114,806.98 to install Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons (RRFB) and replace the pedestrian crosswalks at the intersection of Williams Grove Road and Broad Street.
- Mechanicsburg Borough: $579,879 to implement Leading Pedestrian Intervals and upgrading non-ADA compliant pedestrian pushbuttons, and for the, the retiming of the downtown closed- loop signal system to accommodate the upgrades.
- Silver Spring Township: $148,946.16 for pedestrian upgrades at all eligible signalized intersections to include high visibility longitudinal bar crosswalks.
Delaware County
- Prospect Park Borough: $425,000 for the installation of advance warning devices to mitigate collisions at the overpass along Lincoln Ave located at Moore station that intersects under the AMTRAK/SEPTA rail line overpass.
- Yeadon Borough: $75,400 to install battery backups at all signalized intersections in the borough.
Fayette County
- Connellsville Township: $66,000 to replace the signals, signs, and pushbuttons at the intersection of U.S. 119 and W. Blake Avenue.
- Fayette County: $90,000 for the installation of emergency vehicle warning systems at the intersections of Keefer Road and Route 982, and Longanecker Road and Route 982.
Lancaster County
- City of Lancaster: $974,544 to install a bi-directional/two-way separated bike lane on the south and east side on the roadway from S. Queen Street to E. King Street.
- Manheim Township: $247,875 to establish a designated, high visibility pedestrian crossing at the intersection of Candlewyck Road and Overlook Community Park.
- Penn Township: $221,200 to partially modernize Lancaster Road and Sun Hill Road/Oak St and fully modernize Doe Run Road and White Oak Road to include updated traffic signal equipment and pedestrian facilities.
Luzerne County
- Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority: $561,000 for the design and construction of a pedestrian and bicycle crossing that intersects the Norfolk Southern Railroad. This project will provide a safe crossing point at the existing railroad for non-motorized recreation users.
- City of Wilkes-Barre: $244,000 for improvement of pedestrian visibility and signalization at the intersection of Carey Avenue and Horton Street.
Mercer County
- City of Sharon: $135,000 to update pavement markings at five signalized and two unsignalized intersections along State Street, as well as the replacement of an outdated warning sign with an overhead flashing warning device at the intersection of E. Connelly Boulevard and Smith Avenue.
Mifflin County
- Lewistown Borough: $383,536 for the upgrade at the intersection of Walnut Street and Spring Street to current ADA and PennDOT standards.
Monroe County
- Delaware Water Gap Borough: $33,400 to place three speed display signs on municipality-owned roadways and two pedestrian crossing signs along Main Street.
- Eldred Township: $10,437 for the installation of signs recommended from the township’s recent Traffic Engineering and Safety Study, including the prohibiting of truck traffic, winding road/turn chevrons, and a speed limit sign on Point Phillips Road.
- Stroudsburg Borough: $483,565 to install a new traffic light at Broad Street and Park Avenue.
Montgomery County
- Abington Township: $514,633 for high visibility crosswalks, rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFB), ADA enhancements, and signage at the four intersections of Easton Road and Fairhill Avenue, Easton Road and Parkdale Avenue, Edge Hill Road and Keith Road, and Jenkintown Road and Evergreen Road.
- Conshohocken Borough: $229,829 to install high visibility crosswalks, modernized ADA facilities, and rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFB) at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Seventh Avenue.
- Jenkintown Borough: $101,950 to update the current system signal timing at eight intersections between Wyncote Road to Madeira Avenue.
- Lansdale Borough: $308,900 to improve pedestrian and vehicular mobility at six signalized intersections, including upgrading current push buttons, installing LED countdown pedestrian heads, and ADA curb ramp upgrades. The six improvement intersections are:
- Broad Street and Whites Road.
- Broad Street and Hancock Street.
- Broad Street and Vine Street.
- Broad Street and Seventh Street.
- Line Street and Seventh Street.
- Lansdale Avenue and 7th Street.
- Norristown Borough: $437,686 for traffic signal modernization at the intersection of Marshall Street and Astor Street.
- Trappe Borough: $120,640 to improve pedestrian and vehicular safety at the emergency signalized intersection of W. Fifth Avenue and W. Main Street.
- Upper Dublin Township Municipal Authority: $500,000 to extend the Cross County Trail along Virginia Drive and Dreshertown Road and widen the road from Susquehanna Road to the Beacon Hill Road/Bantry Drive signalized intersection.
- Upper Providence Township: $630,330 for a new channelization island for westbound SR 0029, a pedestrian refuge island for the crossing of the east leg intersection, new ADA- compliant curb ramps, crosswalks and pedestrian signals with countdown timers and pushbuttons.
Northampton County
- City of Easton: $597,067.74 to install elevated and marked crosswalks along Larry Holmes Drive.
- Palmer Township: $795,251.12 to signalize the intersection of Tatamy Road & Newlins Mill Road.
Philadelphia County
- City of Philadelphia: $1 million to fund signage for the implementation of recent legislation prohibiting vehicles stopping in bike lanes citywide. The program will also fund signage for loading zones that will be installed along bicycle lane corridors. Included in this project is also signing to enforce No Right Turn on Red throughout Center City.
- City of Philadelphia: $2 million to expand the existing “Neighborhood Slow Zones” program to the Second Street and Indiana area. Previously Philadelphia introduced this program consisting of quick-build speed management improvements. The first round of improvements was deemed a success, both in lowering crashes within Slow Zones, and in community feedback. The city looks to continue the program and bring the speed management toolkit to new neighborhoods experiencing high rates of crash-related injuries and deaths.
- City of Philadelphia: $2 million to modernize the trolley route on Elmwood Ave, Trolley Route T5 (formerly the Route 36), with new vehicles, on-street stations, and infrastructure. The project will also deliver new traffic signals, pedestrian safety bump-outs, ADA, and stormwater drainage improvements.
- City of Philadelphia: $2 million a continuation of the Sidepath Program focused on gaps in the watershed park trail network. This program will fund design and construction of curb-separated side paths and install traffic signals, signalized crossings, and other related traffic safety improvements as appropriate.
- City of Philadelphia: $5 million to fund the design and construction of a range of multimodal infrastructure upgrades aimed at improving safety, accessibility, and the overall experience for non-motorized users. Planned improvements include upgrading existing bike lanes with concrete curb separation, installing new traffic signals and signalized crossings, constructing center medians treatments, concrete bus boarding islands, and closing sidewalk gaps with new shared use paths. This project will also incorporate traffic calming measures to improve crosswalk visibility. Project locations within this program include Woodland Avenue (42nd Street to VA Drive), Tabor Avenue (Godfrey Avenue to Levick Street), and Walnut Lane (Henry Avenue to Wayne Avenue).
- City of Philadelphia: $1 million for funding the procurement and installation of audible pedestrian signals (APS) including push button with indicator tone and both push or wave capabilities and the installation of pedestrian countdown signals. This will be done at an estimated eight intersections along Penn Square (JFK Boulevard, 15th Street, S. Penn Square, E. Penn Square), Broad Street (Washington Avenue to Callowhill Street), Washington Avenue (Columbus Boulevard to Grays Ferry Avenue), Market Street (Front Street to 23rd Street), and Callowhill St (Columbus Boulevard to 20th Street).
Pike County
- Milford Borough: $307,857 for the installation of rectangular rapid flashing beacons (RRFB) and re-striping crosswalks at 11 intersections along Harford Street and retiming the signals for an all-around pedestrian phase at the Broad Street and Harford Street intersection.
Westmoreland County
- City of Latrobe: $473,737 for a complete traffic signal upgrade at Route 982 and Ligonier Street, and detection upgrades for Route 982 and Mission Road.
For more information about the ARLE program, visit PennDOT’s website.
MEDIA CONTACT: Alexis Campbell, alecampbel@pa.gov or 717-783-8800
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