PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — PennDOT and the city are planning to install speed bumps and reduce traffic lanes on Lincoln Drive in an attempt to slow down drivers.
The speed limit on Lincoln Drive is 25 mph, but you wouldn't know it with the way drivers speed by.
"The neighbors know it very well,” said PennDOT spokesman Brad Rudolph. “There's racing, there are serious crashes along the corridor."
"It's on the city's high-injury network — the 12% of the roads where 80% of the crashes occur."
Rudolph says that's why the state and the city are launching an effort to install traffic calming devices like large speed bumps known as "speed tables," as well as rumble strips, and lane delineators. And, reducing travel from two lanes to one, between Hortter and Greene streets.
"We're going in there in an effort to help calm traffic down, slow down traffic in that area, and give pedestrians and cyclists more refuge and places to cross."
Work begins this fall along a 1.5-mile stretch that PennDOT owns between Allens Lane and Cliveden Street. City work to install the speed tables is expected to start next year.