Speed Limit Lowered On Lancaster Avenue

LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, PA — Lead foot drivers on Lancaster Avenue will have to ease off the accelerator soon, as Lower Merion officials have approved a speed limit decrease.

The Lower Merion Township Board of Commissioners on Dec. 17 unanimously approved a new ordinance reduces the speed limit along a portion of the busy Main Line thoroughfare.

With the ordinance's adoption, Lancaster Avenue will be reduced from 40 to 35 miles per hour.

The impacted stretch of road is between City Avenue and West Wynnewood Road.

Signs indicating the new speed limit were previously installed, but the board's action was to match the township code with the signage.

Additionally, the ordinance's approval means three intersections will no longer have turn right on red permissions.

Those intersections are eastbound Lancaster Avenue at Remington Road, westbound Lancaster Avenue at Haverford Station Road, and both east and westbound Montgomery Avenue at Airdale Road. These are the same intersections that are part of the township's red light camera enforcement program.

Officials approved the red light camera program in mid-July. Violators will be fined $100.