Middletown Borough v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Opinion by

Hirt, J.,

This is an appeal from the order of the Public Utility Commission abolishing and in part relocating a crossing in the Borough of Middletown where Catherine Street crosses the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad at grade. The commission after hearing, found “that the elimination of a traffic hazard as now exists at the Catherine Street crossing at grade, far outweighs the slight inconvenience which will be occasioned by vehicles” now using the crossing. Accordingly it was ordered that the crossing be abolished but that an underpass for pedestrians be constructed at the…