Fostering Lifelong Learning - Episcopal Academy

All Roads Lead to
Newtown Square
Road names finalized and new intersection
completed
As construction work on the new campus continues,
two major
 milestones were reached this past fall and
early winter: the formal
 address of the new campus
and the names of all secondary roads on the
 property
were finalized, and the traffic circle at St. David’s Road and
Rt.
 252 was completed.
The completion of both projects brought home to alumni,
parents, and faculty
 just how far the new campus construction
has come in the last 15 months
 and how close the project is to
being completed.
1785 Bishop White
Drive
After a community-wide
submission process and
numerous conversations
with 
parents, alumni, former
and current faculty
members, and members of
the 
Board of Trustees, the
address of 1785 Bishop
White Drive, Newtown Square,
 PA 19073
was selected for the new campus. The actual street sign along
Rt. 252 and St. David’s Road was installed in December (see
photo above) and
 signage for all of the secondary roads on the
property has been ordered.
The old, existing road that goes by the Wyola Schoolhouse
and divides the
 Foxcatcher Farm property from the new cam-
pus will be named Liseter Hall Farm
 Road in recognition of
the property’s history.
The road that passes behind the Lower School will be named
Aurora Lane,
 and the road that runs behind the Athletic Center
and Campus Center will 
be named Vesper Lane.
Roundabout Complete
After less than three months of work, major traffic improvements
to
the St. David’s Road/Newtown Road intersection
were completed this fall. Mandated by PennDot but designed
and paid for by Episcopal, the
 existing two-way-stop intersection
was replaced with a double-lane
 roundabout. While the
time taken to construct the intersection and the inconvenience
it caused local residents was a major concern, the master 
planning
committee and traffic engineers felt that a roundabout
would
 be far safer for all drivers and would allow traffic to
move more freely. The feedback from those using the roundabout
has been
 quite positive.
Designed to efficiently route traffic, the roundabout is a circular
intersection in which drivers travel counterclockwise.
Entering traffic yields the right of way to those vehicles already
in the 
circle. Traffic entering the roundabout from North Rt.
252 approach the
 roundabout in two lanes. Traffic from St.
David’s Road and Newtown Road approach the roundabout
in one lane.
The goal of the roundabout is to keep traffic flowing smoothly
in and out of
 Episcopal as well as onto the local roads and
Rt. 252.
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