North Wales: Main Street SEPTA crossing to be paved in November

Drivers, beware: Downtown North Wales will see some much-needed paving near the end of the month.

Borough officials announced that PennDOT plans to pave a key stretch of Main Street, where rail lines cross the borough’s main thoroughfare, in November.

“SEPTA, long, long overdue, has announced that they will be replacing the Main Street crossing. So all the bump-bump-bumps that we all go through, for the past ten years, and all the potholes, and the concrete, and the blacktop, and chunks flying out: October 31st, they should be putting their plan notices out,” said Borough Manager Christine Hart.

Detour signs are currently being printed, and borough staff and police plan to notify residents via the town’s social media channels and Savvy Citizen notification system before the work begins, the manager told council on Tuesday night.

“Construction will be from Friday, Nov. 14th, to Monday, Nov. 17th. The chief and I have met with them, we’ve concurred on all of the plans,” she said.

A fresh round of local roads owned by the borough could also see paving soon: during lengthy talks on the town’s 2026 budget held on Tuesday night, the manager told council that a road paving plan that had been scheduled for 2025 will likely not be done this year due to staff turnover including the departure of the town’s assistant manager and public works foreman, but could be tackled in 2026 once the budget is finalized and road conditions after the upcoming winter are assessed.

“When we do the paving, we can do two years’ worth, since we haven’t done one” in 2025, she said.

North Wales borough council next meets at 7 p.m. on Oct. 28 at the borough municipal building, 300 School Street. For more information, visit www.NorthWalesBorough.org.

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