The Charlestown Township Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to approve $60,000 from the budget to repave a segment of Yellow Springs Road at their monthly meeting on Monday night. The routine repair work will cover the length of Yellow Springs Road from Hollow Road to the Turnpike Bridge, according to Township Administrator Linda Csete.

The approval came following discussion by the board regarding the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Milepost 320-326 Widening project, which will eventually convert the existing four-lane highway between the Valley Forge and Downingtown exits into a six-lane highway. The project will widen the Mill Road Bridge, causing construction on Yellow Springs Road and Valley Creek Road.

For this reason, Board of Supervisors member Paul Hogan moved to deny the repaving, but was overruled by the other members, who based their decision on adequate room for the repairs in the township budget and on their desire to maintain safe roadways.

"[The widening project is] in their plans but we don't know when it's going to be approved. The board felt that we needed to repair the road now and couldn't wait for that," said Csete.

The Turnpike commission anticipates construction on the Mill Road Bridge will begin in 2010, according to their Web site.

Construction to repave Yellow Springs Road will begin in a few weeks, according to Csete.

More information can be found at the following Web sites:

http://www.charlestown.org/ct-fdbck/ctcontact_govt.asp

http://www.paturnpike.com/improve/improve_map.aspx

http://www.paturnpike.com/ConstructionProjects/mp320to326/anticipated-schedule.htm