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I-86 REOPENED AT 11:00 AM

Disabled tractor trailer on I-86 eastbound (Cuba) to Town of Friendship; Town of Cuba Line (Cuba) All lanes closed Disabled Tractor Trailer. Use Caution Near Emergency Vehicles.

Hamilton-Gibson Productions announces the cast for their big summer musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. This all-singing first musical by theater greats Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice will be presented at Straughn Auditorium on July 5 at 7:30, July 6 at 2:30 and 7:30; July 7 at 2:30 on the Commonwealth University of Mansfield campus.

On September 18. 2023 the Pennsylvania Senate Transportation Committee held a hearing on automated traffic enforcement. When you hear the elected officials endorsing cameras, rather than gathering comments, it says a lot. Only a few pro-camera people were allowed to speak, and submitting written comments was not intuitive.

As expected, the testimony said how great ticket cameras are. Why not, the cameras can bring in a lot of money for various people and entities. Ticket volume must be kept high in order to keep the cameras operating and fund everything. The problem is that you need to dig deeper. If you pull up the written testimony from Jay Beeber and the 3 others grouped with him, you start to get a clearer picture. Beeber went in-depth addressing speed cameras and stop-arm cameras. He did not get into red-light cameras in-depth, but the same concepts may apply. He took on all the programs and refuted everything the pro-camera speakers said. He had reams of data too, and his testimony was 19 pages long. Nobody else had this level of preparation, since the facts were on Beeber’s side.

Pennsylvania has seen various cases of higher crashes near ticket cameras, tickets issued in error, an FBI investigation, whistleblowers, etc.

With best-practice engineering and enforcement, tickets would be rare, and crashes would also be rare. That would not pay for the cameras, grant programs, etc., though. Making average drivers into scofflaws is bad. Engineers how to properly setup the roads, time to start now.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) announced the following schedule of maintenance activities in Potter County the week of April 29. PennDOT performs year-round maintenance in its mission to provide a safe, efficient transportation system, and the scope of work in Potter County for the coming week is as follows:

Manual Patching

• Route 4012 (Oswayo Street) from the intersection of Route 44 and Assembly Park in Shinglehouse Borough. Monday, April 29. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during daylight hours.
• Route 4017 (Oswayo Street/Sunny Side Road/Shay Town Road) from Academy Street in Shinglehouse Borough and the McKean/Potter county line in Sharon Township. Monday, April 29, through Thursday, May 2. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during daylight hours.
• Route 4019 (Horse Run Road) from the intersection of Ceres Street in Shinglehouse Borough and the New York border. Tuesday, April 30, through Friday, May 3. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during daylight hours.
• Route 4015 (Bells Run Road) in Sharon Township. Friday, May 3. Flaggers in the roadway will provide traffic control during daylight hours.

Most permanent pothole patching is completed in the spring/summer when temperatures stay consistently above freezing. If maintenance crews were not repairing potholes, the road surface would break up further and require more expensive corrective measures.