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Seventeen above lights and 33 “Walk/Don’t Walk” signs in Elizabethtown were recently swapped out for vitality efficient LED lights and sold on municibid.com . The traffic lights and signs were replaced as part of a regional freight signal synchronization project with surrounding municipalities such as West Donegal and Mount Joy townships. The funding for the jut out was through a state/federal grant for transportation improvements. The project did not consequence in direct costs to the borough.
Cindy Foster, assistant borough chief for Etown, could not give an exact date regarding the length of time that the old lights and signs were functioning in hamlet before they were in need of being replaced. As the traffic signals and signs were originally installed when the intersections were first confirmed signals, it has been quite some time since any renovation or upgrade has taken billet.
Township Administrator and Engineer for Mount Joy Steve Gault explained that the expense to upgrade the signal heads to LED was about $10,000, including labor and traffic supervision. This cost is typical for a four-way intersection that contains eight overhead vehicle traffic signal heads with three lights in each pre-eminent (red, yellow, green) and two heads facing each direction of approaching traffic, and eight strolling signal heads controlling four crosswalks.
Source: Etownian