BIG Engineer: With or Without Billboards Traffic Safety Not Linked to Bilboards

NEWTOWN SQUARE–Another round of billboard hearings in with the Bartkowski Investment Group, Inc. (BIG) occurred on Wednesday evening with another chosen BIG engineer to testify in a three-hour cross-examination.

At the last hearing in May, by Jim Byrne, the attorney representing Newtown Township, in his analysis of the roadway and traffic conditions along the 1.3-mile stretch along West Chester Pike in Newtown–the location of which three proposed billboards have been submitted by BIG.

The proposed location for the three billboards have been designated between Media Line Road and just before St. Albans Circle. The three locations of the billboards include the auto shop at 3105 West Chester Pike; Newtown Hair Stylng at 3513 West Chester Pike; and at 3545 West Chester Pike.

In addition to Richardson, Carl Primavera, the attorney representing BIG, introduced another engineer, Michael Tantala of Tantala Associates, LLC, for cross examination. Tantala, who has attended the University of Pennsylvania for undergrad and Princeton University for graduate school as well as a candidate for a PhD for civil engineering, has been with Tantala Associates for nine years as a civil engineer.

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