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WATCH: Traffic safety in the Lehigh Valley – the good, the bad, the ugly

LehighValleyNews.com hosted a roundtable discussion on traffic and traffic safety in the Lehigh Valley. It's part of The Road Ahead project.

Traffic in Lehigh Valley
The view looking east on Broad Street in Bethlehem. LehighValleyNews.com is hosting a traffic roundtable Friday at 2 p.m.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. — What’s the state of traffic in the Lehigh Valley, and how can it improve?

Those were among the questions discussed Friday afternoon during a roundtable at the Univest Public Media Center.

As part of our project The Road Ahead, LehighValleyNews.com assembled a group familiar with many of the region’s traffic- and transportation-related issues.

You can watch a replay of the livestream here. The discussion also streamed on LehighValleyNews.com’s Facebook and on the PBS39 YouTube channel.

Participants were:

Lt. William Audelo, Bethlehem Police Department;
Becky Bradley, Lehigh Valley Planning Commission;
Bob Dolan, Pa. Motor Truck Association;
State Rep. Peter Schweyer, D-Lehigh;
Scott Slingerland, Coalition for Appropriate Transportation.

Reporter Tom Shortell served as moderator.

The Univest Public Media Center is headquarters for PBS39, LehighValleyNews.com and 91.3 WLVR.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Want to be plugged in to all things traffic and transit in the Lehigh Valley? Sign up for Tom Shortell's weekly Road Scholar newsletter and get it delivered to your in-box every Tuesday. Better yet, tell him what you're thinking — or what you want to know — at toms@lehighvalleynews.com.

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