Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
Middletown Township has recently approved $5 million in new borrowing to complete the beginnings of the new 14-year Road Improvement Program.
According to a press release, the new money was part of an almost $10 million dollar bond issue which included the refinancing of a prior 2009 bond. Officials say that the low-interest rates of the refinancing allowed the township to save over $340,000.
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The Road Improvement Program was passed in a Board of Supervisors meeting in late March and will be initiated as early as the middle of this summer.
The project will include the milling and paving of streets in Apple Valley, Cider Knoll, Eagle’s Mere, Highland Gate, Neshaminy Point and Swan Point.
Other individual streets that will be paved in the first year of the project are The township’s portion of Woodbourne Road (which is from Ellis Road to the township line) and Clay Avenue.
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In the meeting in which this project was approved, board members said that the first year of the project is dedicated to the roads they believe are at their most critical state. According to the press release, most of the roads included in Year 1 have not been paved since they were built more than 30 years ago.
Plans have also been made for year two of the project, some of the roads that will be repaved include Mill Road, Township Line Road, portions of Village Road, Clearview Avenue and a small portion of Old Lincoln Highway.
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The other twelve years of the plan have yet to be decided upon by the township.
Questions and concerns about the 14-year Road Improvement Program can be sent to Pat Duffy, the Director of Planning, Zoning and Engineering at Middletown Township. He can be reached at pduffy@middletown-township.org.
