UPDATE (1/6/25): Chuck Stickelmaier, a recent member of the Newtown Gate Townhouse HOA, notified me that my photo of the intersection is no longer accurate.  The HOA recently extended the walking paths on both sides of the bypass entrance all the way to the corners.  The big problems now are the crosswalks and the lack of sidewalks on the Summit Square side of the intersection.  Hopefully, this unsafe pedestrian crossing is successfully addressed in the near future.

At the July 10, 2024, Newtown Twp Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting, Middletown resident Karla Jones requested that Newtown collaborate with Middletown Township and PennDOT to complete the required work to create safe pedestrian walkways to and from Langhorne and Newtown.

It is likely that this would require a traffic study. BOS Chair Dennis Fisher suggested that "maybe this is something the Planning Commission could look at." See the meeting summary here for details...

Meanwhile traffic was a topic of discussion at the July 16, 2024, Newtown Planning Commission (NTPC) meeting.

At that meeting, NTPC member Terry M. Christensen "voiced the concern that the traffic studies that we see are too tightly focused. For example, the Stony Meadows development near George School will have 159 new residences. Many of these folks will most likely do the bulk of their shopping at Summit Square. However, given the distance and rush-hour congestion on 413, it seems highly likely that these folks will use the bypass to get to I-95. That circumstance will have (in my view) a significant impact on the traffic flow on the bypass. Nonetheless, those numbers were never considered in the Wawa traffic study.