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. Thatās 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 …
An open house that was billed the āabsolute beginning of the processā 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 …
State officials want to increase safety by reducing the number of lanes on Foulk Road. The idea is drawing a lot of interest on what the project entails ā and a visceral outcry. The Delaware Department of Transportation āwants to reconfigure Foulk Road the same way it has Philadelphia Pike,ā Mike Lang wrote on the Take Back Claymont Facebook …
