NEWS
MONTGOMERY COUNTY OFFICE OF COMMUNICATIONS
COURT HOUSE, NORRISTOWN, PA., BOX 311, 19404-0311
PHONE (610) 278-3061 FAX 278-5943
COMMISSIONERS:
JAMES R. MATTHEWS, Chairman, JOSEPH M. HOEFFEL, Vice Chairman, BRUCE L. CASTOR, JR., Commissioner
RELEASE: IMMEDIATELY 08/26/09 PR#09-38
Montgomery County Commissioners Funding Downtown Bridgeport Improvements
BRIDGEPORT — The Montgomery County Commissioners presented Bridgeport Borough with a $487,420 check at a recent Borough Council meeting for a revitalization grant to make downtown improvements.
The grant is for the installation of trees along 4th Street between Depot and Holstein streets.
The Revitalization Program rewards boroughs by helping them improve their downtown areas to attract development, which compliments the County’s Open Space program be relieving the pressure of suburban sprawl, Montgomery County Commissioners Chairman James R. Matthews said.
“We want to help you enhance your infrastructure so developers come here and not use farmland,” he said.
Voters in Montgomery County overwhelmingly approved a $150 million open space preservation program in 2002.
The County will be coming to voters again next year for another bond-supported program to improve traffic flow on area roads, Matthews said.
The state and federal governments have clearly indicated that all of their transportation dollars for the foreseeable future will be used to fix existing roads and bridges that are wearing out.
“People sitting in traffic jams always ask: ‘When are they going to do something about this?,” Matthews said. “For the foreseeable future, we as the County in partnership with the municipalities are going to have to be the they.”
Pictured above, from left to right: Montgomery County Commissioners
Chairman Jim Matthews, Bridgeport Council Vice President Ted Pruskowski,
Bridgeport Mayor Jerry Nicola and Bridgeport Council President John Kowal
and Montgomery County Commissioners Vice Chairman Joe Hoeffel.
