THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY WONDERLING, STOUT, EARLL, RAFFERTY, BOSCOLA, FONTANA, TARTAGLIONE, O'PAKE, ERICKSON, GREENLEAF, WAUGH, ALLOWAY, WASHINGTON, DINNIMAN, BROWNE AND COSTA, APRIL 3, 2009

REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 3, 2009  

AN ACT

Designating Bushkill Drive, State Route 2019, Northampton

County, as the Victor W. Anckaitis Memorial Highway.

WHEREAS, Victor W. Anckaitis served the people of the

Commonwealth as the first Secretary of Transportation; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Anckaitis dedicated himself to the improvement

of the transportation network in Pennsylvania through his

service in leadership roles as the chief engineer for the

Department of Highways, Superintendent of Highways in

Northampton County and chairman of the Lehigh and Northampton

Transportation Authority; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Anckaitis also served as a member of the

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, the State Transportation

Commission, The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission,

the Governor's Council on Natural Resources and Beauty and the

Lehigh Valley Flood Control Council; and 

WHEREAS, Mr. Anckaitis received an honorary doctorate in

engineering from Lafayette College and numerous other civic and

professional awards.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Victor W. Anckaitis Memorial Highway.

(a)  Designation.--The section of Bushkill Drive, State Route

2019, in Northampton County, from the intersection with State

Route 1002, known as Tatamy Road, to the intersection with 13th

Street in the City of Easton, is designated and shall be known

as the Victor W. Anckaitis Memorial Highway.

(b)  Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and

maintain appropriate signs which shall display the name of the

highway designated in subsection (a) at each end.

Section 2.  Effective date.

 This act shall take effect in 60 days.