$2.5 Million Grant Awarded To Address Route 23 Safety, Traffic Issues

SCHUYLKILL TOWNSHIP, PA — One of Chester County's busiest and most traffic-sieged roadways will see significant improvements thanks to a major state grant, officials said in announcing the award this week.

The Route 23 safety project will receive $2.51 million in funding for a wide variety of improvements, including signal upgrades, widening, restriping, new turn lanes, milling, removal of median islands, and general reconfigurations.

The impacted area includes Schuylkill Township, Phoenixville, and surrounding municipalities.

"The people of Schuylkill Township have been looking forward to these improvements for a long time,” State Rep. Melissa Shusterman said in announcing the award. “Route 23 has been left neglected for far too long. I am relieved that these federal funds were secured and look forward to the people of Chester County benefiting from these safer roads at no additional cost to them."

Specifically, the project will help create an exclusive left turn lane at the intersection of Route 23 and Township Line Road, which officials are hopeful will greatly alleviate local congestion.

The Route 23 and Route 113 intersection will also be improved, with the road layout modernized and the road itself milled and overlayed.

The project will begin this summer, with anticipated completion in the fall of 2026.

In addition to this grant, the project is fully funded by federal grants.