BIG Engineer Sticks to Story: Proposed Billboards in Newtown Are Safe

NEWTOWN SQUARE–Another round of cross examinations ensued between Bartkowski Investment Group, Inc.'s (BIG) chosen engineer Michael Tantala of Tantala Associates, LLC, and Jim Byrne, 's representing attorney, at a Newtown Zoning Hearing Board meeting on the three billboards proposed by BIG on Wednesday evening.

BIG continued to fight for approval for the three proposed billboards in the township: the auto shop at 3105 West Chester Pike; Newtown Hair Stylng at 3513 West Chester Pike; and at 3545 West Chester Pike.

At the last hearing in July, Tantala stated that based upon his research, it was in his professional opinion, "with a reasonable engineering certainty," that the three proposed billboards along West Chester Pike/Rt. 3 in Newtown Square "will not present a traffic obstruction for vehicles moving on the route."

Tantala stuck to his guns at Wednesday nght's cross examination and continued to state that "on the basis of my analysis, and on the basis of other studies that have been cited, and on the basis of what PennDOT safely permits, and on the basis of what's fairly ubiquitous in other townships throughout Pennsylvania, permits these signs."

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