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PennDOT road work in Delaware County, week of July 14, 2024

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July 14, 2024

New projects

Beatty Road: Monday, July 15, through Friday, July 19, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., closed between Kelli Lane and Baltimore Pike in Springfield and Nether Providence townships for base repair.

Interstate 476

July 15 through July 19: 8 p.m. to 5 the following morning, a lane closure on sections of southbound between the I-76 (Schuylkill Expressway) and I-95 interchanges for paving.

July 15 through July 19: 8 p.m. to 5 the following morning, a lane closure on sections northbound between the Route 3 (West Chester Pike) and I-76 (Schuylkill Expressway) interchanges for guiderail replacement.

July 18 and July 19: 9 p.m. to 5 the following morning, a lane closure on sections southbound between the Route 3 (West Chester Pike) and MacDade Boulevard interchanges for stormwater management activities.

July 18 and July 19: 9 p.m. to 5 the following morning, a lane closure on sections northbound between I-95 and the County Line Road overpass for stormwater management activities.

Interstate 95

July 18 and July 19: 9 p.m. to 5 the following morning, a lane closure on sections southbound between the Prospect Park/Essington (Exit 9B-A) and I-476 (Exit 7) interchanges for stormwater management activities.

Newtown Township

Route 3 (West Chester Pike): Through Aug. 30, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. a weekday lane closure in both directions between Boot Road and Bryn Mawr Avenue, Newtown Township, safety improvement project.

Route 3 (West Chester Pike): Through July 19, 7 p.m. to 6 the following morning, a lane closure in both directions weeknights and Sunday nights between Boot Road and Charles Ellis Drive for milling and paving.

Bryn Mawr Avenue: will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday, July 26 to 6 a.m. Monday, July 29 at Route 3 (West Chester Pike) for drainage installation. Local access will be maintained up to the work zone.

Ongoing work

Southbound Route 452 (Market Street): Through Aug. 26, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays, lane closure between Beech Street and Ridge Road, Upper Chichester and Lower Chichester townships, utility construction by the Southern Delaware County Authority.

Near Delco

U.S. 1 (Baltimore Pike): Through Aug. 28, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., a weekday lane closure from Greenwood Road to just south of Schoolhouse Road.

Route 3 (West Chester Pike): Through Nov. 29, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., a weekday lane closure between Garfield Avenue and Spring Lane in West Goshen Township for concrete median demolition and reconstruction.

South Creek Road bridge

South Creek Road: will be closed 1,200 feet south of Bullock Road and 1.1 miles north of Cossart Road on a $15.2 million project to replace the bridge over the East Penn Railroad and Brandywine Creek in Pennsbury Township, Chester County, and Chadds Ford Township, Delaware County. A completion date was not provided.

Glen Riddle Road bridge

Through Nov. 21: closure scheduled between Brandywine Drive and Wrights Lane in Middletown Township to replace the bridge carrying Glen Riddle Road over Chrome Run Creek. Local access will be maintained for residents and businesses.

Route 420

The PennDOT $35.8 million project to replace the bridges that carry the highway over Darby Creek in Prospect Park and Tinicum Township.

Into 2027: One southbound lane of the Route 420 bridge over the Darby Creek to be closed 24/7 as a four-year project to refurbish and replace that span continues.

Thornbury Township

Station Road bridge 234: closed around the clock, no timetable to reopen.

PECO work

U.S. 1 (Township Line Road): Through July 19, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays, a lane closure between Pilgrim Lane and Darby Creek in Drexel Hill.

Route 3 (West Chester Pike): Through Sept. 20, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., weekday lane closure in both directions between Glen Gary Drive and Eagle Road in Haverford Township.

U.S. 30 (Lancaster Avenue): Through Oct. 30, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., a weekday lane closure between Church Road and Old Wynnewood Road in Lower Merion Township.

MacDade Boulevard: Through Dec. 31, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., a weekday lane closure between MacDade Mall Boulevard and South Avenue in Glenolden.

Aqua Pa. work

U.S. 1 (Township Line Road): Through July 31, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., a weekday lane closure between Alexander Avenue and Drexel Avenue.

Beatty Road: Through Aug. 2, a 24/7 closure between Chesley Drive and Surrey Road in Nether Providence Township.

Route 320 (Sproul Road): Through Aug. 30, 7 p.m. to 5 the following morning weekdays, lane closure between Beatty Road and the ramp to U.S. 1 (State Road) in Springfield Township.

Brookhaven Road/Turner Road: Through Aug. 30, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. closed and detoured between Route 252 (Providence Road) and Plush Mill Road in Nether Providence Township.

Conestoga Road: Through Aug. 30, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays, a lane closure between Lowrys Lane and Glenbrook Avenue in Radnor Township.

Landover Road: Through Nov. 29, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. closed between Gaynor Road and Haverford Road.

Aqua issued the following information, and specified that the projects will likely all end in midsummer.

Radnor Township: Crews area replacing 3,860 feet of aging water mains with new 8-inch ductile iron water mains on the following streets:

• Hothorpe Lane: between Newtown Road and the end of the cul-de-sac.

• Knox Road: between Atterbury Road and Shadeland Road.

• Shadeland Road: between Knox Road and Newtown Road.

• Watch Hill Road: between Knox Road and the end of the cul-de-sac.

• Matlack Lane: between Newtown Road and the end of the road.

Haverford Township: crews are replacing 3,300 feet of aging water mains with new 8-inch ductile iron mains on the following streets:

• Pennsylvania Avenue between Darby Road and Manoa Road.

• Media Avenue between Darby Road and Weller Avenue.

• Weller Avenue between Pennsylvania Avenue and Manoa Road.

• Delaware Avenue between Pennsylvania Avenue and Manoa Road.

Upper Darby-Haverford: Crews are also working to replace 2,275 feet of aging water mains with new 16-inch ductile iron water mains in Upper Darby and Haverford townships.

• Township Line Road (PA Route 1) between Burmont Road and Drexel Avenue.

To learn more, AquaWater.com.

Nether Providence

Nether Providence Township adds to the Aqua report about Beatty Road:

“Jack and bore operations under the SEPTA trolley tracks at Beatty Road near the side entrance of the ACME/Chesley Drive and the nearest cross street of Surrey to the south.

“This 24/7 full closure for three weeks (hoping for two!!) Beatty Road is fully accessible except for the immediate track crossing. There will be no traffic allowed. Local traffic only.

“Formal detour signs will be posted, including specific signs “open to SEPTA crossing” and “local traffic only,” on the Springfield side up at Sproul Road and again where Crum Creek Road meets Beatty.”

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Delaware Supreme Court upholds reforms to curb ‘DExit’ concerns

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March 2, 2026

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Delaware Supreme Court upholds reforms to curb ‘DExit’ concerns

Karl Baker
| Spotlight Delaware

This story was produced by Spotlight Delaware as part of a partnership with Delaware Online/The News Journal. For more about Spotlight Delaware, visit www.spotlightdelaware.org.

A Delaware law passed last year in the wake of escalating assaults on the state’s corporate brand shielded powerful company leaders from facing certain lawsuits brought by smaller investors.

What it didn’t do was violate the Delaware Constitution, the state Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Feb. 27.

More than three months after hearing arguments, the justices ruled that the corporate law reform – known as Senate Bill 21 – did not strip Delaware’s prominent Court of Chancery of its constitutional authority to decide when a business deal is fair.

“The General Assembly’s enactment of SB 21 falls within the ‘broad and ample sweep’ of its legislative power,” the justices stated.

The ruling ends a bruising fight in Delaware over when the state’s business court should allow small-time investors to interrogate insider deals struck within companies by founders or other business leaders.

The ruling also averts what could have been an embarrassment for the state’s legal and political establishment had the high court overturned the law.

More than a year ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk — the world’s richest person — was calling on business leaders to move their companies’ legal homes out of Delaware. Musk had launched the campaign, which became known as “DExit,” after a Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled that he could not accept a multibillion-dollar pay package from Tesla.

Just as the campaign appeared to be gaining a foothold, Gov. Matt Meyer, legislative leaders, and Delaware attorneys who represent corporations threw their collective heft behind SB 21.

They argued then that the legislation amounted to a “course correction” that would bring the state’s business courts back into alignment with rulings from a decade ago. Many also said the bill was needed to pacify executives who were considering following Musk’s calls to move their companies’ legal homes out of Delaware.

In response, a cadre of critics — which included national law professors, pension fund attorneys, and a handful of progressives within the Delaware legislature — derided SB 21 as a “billionaires bill.”

Some also argued that the legislation was the latest in a string of recent changes to Delaware corporate law that have shifted the state away from protecting shareholder rights and toward giving greater deference to powerful executives.

Meyer and others SB 21 supporters rejected those characterizations last year. And on Friday, he celebrated the Supreme Court’s ruling.

In a statement, he said the decision affirms that “Delaware is the gold standard locale for global companies to do business.” He also stated that the number of companies that maintain their legal home in Delaware had increased throughout 2025 despite the DExit campaign.

“In short, SB 21 is working, and I’m glad it will continue to be the law,” Meyer said.

The legal arguments for SB 21

When arguing against SB 21 in front of the Supreme Court last fall, one attorney asserted that the new law removed the Chancery Court’s time-honored and constitutional duty to say what is fair – or equitable – in a business dispute.

The attorney, Gregory Varallo, argued that by removing a shareholders’ ability to sue their company, the law reduced what he described as the immutable power of the Court of Chancery to oversee a “complete system of equity.”

During his arguments, Varallo also offered the justices an unusual acknowledgement, stating that he knew that his stance was unpopular — and that he understood “well the pressures on this court.”

The comments were a likely reference to the consensus of big business groups and the state’s political establishment that believed SB 21 was necessary for Delaware to remain the world’s preeminent corporate domicile.

Following Varallo, Washington, D.C.-based attorney Jonathan C. Bond defended SB 21, in part, by characterizing his opponents arguments as unprecedented. If adopted, he said they would imperil several existing Delaware laws that go back decades.

He also argued that changing the rules of corporate law – as SB 21 did – “is the same as wiping out jurisdiction merely because it makes some plaintiff’s claims harder.”

Also arguing in favor of SB 21 during the hearing was William Savitt, an attorney with the Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz – among the most prominent corporate law firms in the country.

Last spring, Meyer hired Savitt’s firm to represent the state in the legal defense of SB 21 for a budget rate of $100,000. By comparison, Wachtell Lipton charged Twitter $90 million in 2022 to ferry that company through its arduous, four-month-long acquisition by Elon Musk.

Wachtell’s client list also includes Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta executives and board members, who last summer settled a seven-year-long, multibillion-dollar shareholder lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court.

During his arguments on SB 21, Savitt said equity as determined by judges must follow the statutes created by the legislature, and “not displace the law.”

“No natural reading of the words (of the Delaware Constitution) support plaintiff’s position,” he said.

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Police identify victim of Wilmington motorcycle crash

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March 2, 2026

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Police identify victim of Wilmington motorcycle crash

State police identified 29-year-old Brian Silva of New Castle as the victim of a fatal motorcycle crash in Wilmington.

Silva was riding a Harley-Davidson northbound on Dupont Highway approaching Millside Drive in Wilmington around 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 27 when it collided with the rear of a stopped Lexus at that intersection, police said. Silva was ejected from the motorcycle. He was taken to the hospital, where he died.

Delaware State Police are still investigating this incident, and anyone with information is encouraged to reach out to them or to Delaware Crime Stoppers.

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When will Delaware warm up? After snow, ice Tuesday, temps will rise

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March 1, 2026

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When will Delaware warm up? After snow, ice Tuesday, temps will rise

Meteorological winter has ended and we’ve entered spring.

However, there’s still a last winter blast hitting Delaware early this week before a spring warm up hits at the end of the week.

Here’s a look at the Delaware forecast.

Will Delaware see more snow?

After a brisk Monday, March 2 with sunny skies and highs only reaching 35 degrees, there’s a chance of snow after 1 a.m. Tuesday, March 3 with freezing rain after 4 a.m. in New Castle County. Snow and freezing rain are expected before noon Tuesday, March 3. The county may receive less than a half inch of accumulation.

In Kent County and Sussex County, there’s a chance of snow and freezing rain after 1 a.m. Tuesday, March 3.

When will it warm up in Delaware?

It will start feeling like spring as warmer air moves into the First State on Tuesday evening, March 3, but wet weather is coming as well.

Rain is predicted from Tuesday, March 3 through Friday, March 5, but spring-like temperatures will make it bearable. In New Castle County temperatures will range from the mid-50s on Wednesday, March 3 to the 60s on Thursday, March 4 and Friday, March 5. Kent County should see temperatures in the 60s and Sussex County will see 70s during the mid- to later part of the week

What’s the weekend forecast?

Remember when you were daydreaming about warm weather during the polar vortex or blizzard? Well, it is coming next weekend.

The forecast is calling for sunny to partly sunny skies throughout Delaware on Saturday, March 7 and Sunday, March 8. Highs will reach the upper 60s in the north to the low 70s in the south.

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