Traffic issues, and criticism of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, frequent topics at supervisors’ meetings, again came under discussion at last week’s otherwise routine meeting.

Almost half of the brief meeting was spent in executive session to discuss personnel and real estate, but during the public comment portion of the open meeting, two residents raised traffic concerns.

In response to George Reid, of Corning Road, supervisors directed staff to conduct a traffic study of the road to determine if it could be posted for 25 miles per hour. Reid said speeding traffic on that road near his residence is dangerous and the road is not posted at all now.

Township Manager Daniel DeLong said if there are no speed limit signs, the default limit is 55 mph.

Audience member Francis Caputo said speed limit signs do not do much good. “You need a state cop there at least once a week,” he said.

“They won’t come,” Supervisor Robert Sentner answered.

The other traffic complaint was from Robert Schmeltzle, who said something needs to be done about traffic at the intersection of Chestnut Street and Shimerville Road, particularly at rush hour. But while supervisors sympathized with him, they didn’t have any good answers.

“That whole area’s a real mess,” supervisors Chairman George DeVault said.

PennDOT also came under fire from Sentner, a frequent critic of the agency. He said when PennDOT recently did work on Route 29 near his place of business, they completely took away the shoulder of the road and planted grass, making it impossible for traffic to get by any car trying to make a left turn into his business.

He said he would like to see representatives from the municipalities involved in the Southwestern Lehigh Comprehensive Plan continue to meet to discuss traffic issues after the plan is presented to the public in September.

In other business, Assistant Township Manager Bud Carter said volunteers from the community are still needed for the emergency services committee the township is forming. Three members from the community are being sought who have no affiliation with any of the area’s emergency services.