Senator Elder Vogel Jr. Announces State Grants for Municipal Traffic Light Upgrades in Beaver and Butler Counties

(File Photo of Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Rochester, PA) According to a release in Rochester yesterday from Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.’s office, Vogel announced yesterday that several municipalities in Beaver and Butler counties will benefit from nearly $430,000 in state funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT’s) Green Light-Go Program, which is dedicated to enhancing local traffic signals and improving community traffic flow as a competitive state grant program. Center Township is receiving $132,024 for upgrading signal equipment at Pleasant Drive and Autumn Street in Beaver County. Cranberry Township is receiving $94,800 for upgrading detection and controller equipment at multiple intersections, as well as $83,350 for expansion of fiber-optic traffic signal communications, while Seven Fields Borough is receiving $117,520 for replacement of outdated sensors with radar detection, both in Butler County.