A plan would turn the intersection of Marsh and Harvey roads into a gateway for Arden. (Ken Mammarella photo)

Slow down on Harvey Road in the Ardens, plan urges

Ken MammarellaGovernment, Headlines

Plans underway to improve transportation safety in Arden, Ardencroft and Ardentown would, among other things, aim to slow down traffic on the communities’ major roads. The next meeting on the plan, organized by the Wilmington Area Planning Council, will be Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Buzz Ware Village Center, 2119 The Highway, Arden. An 11-page …

Philadelphia Pike road diet

What would a road diet look like? What would it do?

Ken MammarellaGovernment, Headlines

The thoroughfare had problems with accidents, so Delaware Department of Transportation officials wanted to reduce the number of through lanes and make other changes — a concept called a road diet. That’s the situation for Foulk Road today, and it was also the situation for the Philadelphia Pike more than a decade ago. The Pike was put on a road …

The crowd at a DelDOT open house on plans for Foulk Road (Ken Mammarella photo)

Foulk Road reconfiguration draws intense interest

Ken MammarellaGovernment, Headlines

An open house that was billed the “absolute beginning of the process” to reconfigure Foulk Road generated intense interest from neighbors and owners of local businesses. It did not, however, generate a lot of answers. Nor did it generate a large number of people favoring the project to cut the road from four lanes, improve it for cyclists and pedestrians …