2008-05-13 00:50:00
LORI VAN INGEN, Staff
Motorists will have an easier time moving through Lancaster city today with the reopening of North Duke Street between Frederick and James streets.North Duke was closed from May 2 to Monday for construction of a two-story pedestrian bridge from Lancaster General Hospital to a new outpatien......
2008-05-11 00:20:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Dianne Mousley's had enough. Every day, she drives the Fruitville Pike from her home in Manheim Township to her job in Lancaster. Every day it's the same: Start. Stop. Red light after red light along one of the county's busiest corridors — a corridor that, she thinks, might be......
2008-05-08 01:16:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A vat of sunflower oil fell off a truck traveling on South Queen Street Wednesday afternoon, forcing motorists following in its wake to navigate a slick, sticky roadway.A city official said the vat was not secured when it broke through the door of the truck and crashed onto the street, spi......
2008-05-03 01:46:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
If motorists in Lancaster city are upset over being detoured around Lancaster General Hospital's construction project closing North Duke Street, they haven't shown it. Lancaster police Sgt. Jarrad Berkheiser, stationed outside LGH to help with traffic, said Friday that he hadn't hea......
2008-04-28 18:39:00
STAFF REPORT
Lancaster city police have issued updated information regarding altered downtown traffic patterns in coming weeks.The changes are due to several construction projects. Revisions to originally released information are:• The 100 block of East King Street between ......
2008-04-24 00:36:00
TOM KNAPP, Staff
An inevitable occurrence on the roads in Lancaster County each summer is an increase in the number of slow-moving farm vehicles that can bog down traffic — and cause impatient motorists to attempt reckless maneuvers while trying to pass them.Pennsylvania, with its side-by-side blend ......
2008-04-17 00:16:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
City planners approved the final plan for a new $30 million retail center on Hempstead Road Wednesday night.The shopping center will be anchored by a 117,000-square-foot Lowe's home-improvement store and also will include a 45,933-square-foot retail store, plus a restaurant and bank....
2008-04-15 11:49:00
CHAD UMBLE, Staff
The $100 million Crossings at Conestoga Creek cleared a key hurdle Monday, but High Real Estate Group is still many months and millions of dollars away from turning the shopping center plan into reality. By a 3-2 vote, Manheim Township commissioners approved High's conditional use reques......
2008-04-15 01:03:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A controversial shopping complex that would become the second-largest retail center in Lancaster County passed its first major hurdle Monday night.Manheim Township commissioners granted the High Real Estate Group conditional use for The Crossings at Conestoga Creek by a 3-2 vote, with one ......
2008-04-14 14:59:00
JACK BRUBAKER, Staff
About the series
The $170 million Lancaster County Convention Center and Marriott Hotel is scheduled to open next March on Penn Square in downtown Lancaster. Thousands of conventioneers will visit the 220,000-square-foot center and stay overnight in the 300-room M......
2008-04-10 01:17:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Sure, there were concerns — traffic, angled parking and the convention center.But something seemed to glide under the radar at Wednesday night's public meeting to discuss the city's proposed streetscape design standards — the streetscape plan itself.Of the 50 or ......
2008-04-09 00:42:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Portions of two of the city's main thoroughfares will be closed in coming weeks, presenting challenges to motorists navigating their way around Lancaster's northeast.The altered traffic patterns are a result of two major construction projects — Lancaster General Hospital'......
2008-03-20 01:44:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A clerical mistake by East Hempfield Township's solicitor has allowed a controversial development plan along Church Street in Landisville to move forward despite supervisors' denial of the project in December.An attorney with Blakinger, Byler & Thomas of Lancaster, the township......
2008-03-10 00:40:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A 23-year-old Lititz motorist died early Sunday when his car struck a bridge in Manor Township and overturned, investigators said.Michael Wright, of 639 Lincoln Road, died at the scene of the 1:40 a.m. crash in the 300 block of South Duke Street, Manor Township police said.A passeng......
2008-03-09 00:10:00
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ, Staff
Inside City Council chambers Tuesday evening, with little public debate, the Lancaster City Traffic Commission approved Mayor Rick Gray's plan to study angled parking as a way to slow traffic. Outside those chambers, the debate livened up considerably. Moirajeanne FitzGerald, owner of Here......
2008-03-08 02:01:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Some major long-term road projects might make daily commutes longer in the coming months.On Monday, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will start work in West Hempfield Township on the bridge that carries Prospect Road over Route 30.Crews will funnel all traffic on Prospect R......
2008-03-06 00:58:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Anxious motorists bracing for the day construction at Lancaster Airport shuts down traffic on Lititz Pike can take a deep breath.Yes, a stretch of Lititz Pike (Route 501) just west of the airport will be closed beginning April 4. But accompanying detours will last only one weekend, an airp......
2008-03-05 01:20:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
Before it hires a new police chief, Ephrata Borough Council will conduct a study to see how the department in general is running.Council likely will vote March 10 to hire International City/County Management Association to perform "a comprehensive operations evaluation," accordin......
2008-03-03 00:03:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A Marietta woman was killed and three other women were seriously hurt this weekend in separate crashes in East Donegal Township, police said.Mary Ann Geesey, 70, died after she and her two sisters were involved in a one-car wreck Saturday morning in the 1500 block of River Road. All are fr......
2008-03-02 00:18:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Call this one a whole new angle on city parking. On Tuesday, Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray will approach the Lancaster City Traffic Commission with an idea. What if, he'll ask, the normal parallel parking on six northwest Lancaster streets is discontinued — and motorists are instead requi......
2008-02-19 02:03:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
The owners of an Intercourse publishing company Monday unveiled a $45 million development plan designed to upgrade accommodations for the hundreds of thousands of people who visit the small village each year.Merle and Phyllis Good, owners of Good Enterprises Ltd., which includes a publishi......
2008-02-01 01:27:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Transportation officials discussed ways to change mindsets when it comes to infrastructure and land development so that roads and bridges can be maintained and fewer cars crowd the roads.•••Traffic is increasing, budgets are shrinking a......
2008-01-31 01:43:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
The fate of the Crossings At Conestoga Creek is now in the hands of the Manheim Township board of commissioners.The commissioners have been trying to decide if the proposed 646,000-square-foot shopping complex across Harrisburg Pike from Long's Park fits the township's planned comm......
2008-01-22 01:06:00
TOM KNAPP, Staff
A long-running ethanol-plant hearing is drawing to a close in Conoy Township."It is our expectation that the hearing sessions will wrap up this week," township solicitor Matthew Creme said Monday.Monday's session was reserved solely for public comment on the $100 million corn-to-eth......
2008-01-09 01:58:00
JENNIFER TODD, Staff
Lancaster City Council approved construction projects Tuesday night for two city institutions.Lancaster Newspapers Inc. received approval to build a seven-story parking garage adjacent to the company's central parking structure on West Vine Street.The 470-space garage will be built ......
2008-01-06 00:20:00
GIL SMART, Associate editor
In 2006 Mark Herr's car was totaled, through no fault of his own. A driver was speeding through his neighborhood in the 600 block of Poplar Street and slammed into it. So he got a new car. And twice in 2007, people driving recklessly down his street — speeding — plowed into that......
2007-12-20 02:25:00
JEFF HAWKES, Staff
In East Hempfield Township this week, the pessimists got their say.Resident after resident after resident stood before the township supervisors Monday and said they don't believe it's possible to build a future in which opportunities for growth in Lancaster County are balanced with preserv......
2007-12-11 00:45:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
A school bus contracted by School District of Lancaster was involved in an early morning crash Monday in East Lampeter Township.The bus, carrying 28 students from Lancaster Mennonite School, Locust Grove School and Seventh Day Adventist School, was rear-ended on Route 462 near the entrance......
2007-12-03 00:57:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
A mixed bag of wintry weather caused problems Sunday for Lancaster County motorists facing the first icy road conditions of the season.Many crashes were reported across the county Sunday morning and early afternoon, officials said.Many of the wrecks happened on slick bridges in the ......
2007-11-24 11:59:00
DAVID O’CONNOR, Staff writer
Paul Flury both lives and works in Elizabethtown, which gives him two much-different thoughts about an ongoing traffic project in town. As a resident, "it can get very frustrating" to sit in snarled traffic, which sometimes backs up at peak hours in Elizabethtown much more than usual ......
2007-11-24 02:03:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
The concrete-arch bridge that carries Auction Road across Big Chiques Creek near Manheim is one of just five bridges of that design in Pennsylvania.Built in 1922, the bridge is considered a historic structure by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.PennDOT, however......
2007-11-23 00:48:00
LAURA KNOWLES, Correspondent
The Warwick Township supervisors voted 4-1 Wednesday to change the zoning of a site off Route 501 south of Lititz to permit a Target store.The decision came about a month earlier than expected. It followed three public hearings and nearly eight hours of testimony.Logan Myers, Michae......
2007-11-20 00:11:00
CARLA DI FONZO, staff
When it comes to holiday traffic, it seems as if everyone wants to beat it or wait it out.Maggie and John Dern of Millersville decided to visit relatives in Maryland for Thanksgiving this Thursday, but left town on Sunday."We'd go earlier if we could, but that's the lat......
2007-11-19 00:23:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT, Staff
Two Lancaster County women were killed late Friday night when their sedan collided head-on with a speeding sport-utility vehicle in Dauphin County, investigators said.Derry Township police on Sunday identified the women as Crystal Rudy, of Lancaster, and Morgan Long, of Elizabethtown &mdas......
2007-11-08 01:35:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
When Fred Lane was 14 years old, he worked baling hay on Amos Herr's farm, which was on the present site of the East Hempfield Township municipal building.Lane said Herr used to talk about his vision for the township and the land he would ultimately donate to the citizens in his community.......
2007-11-06 01:03:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Over the past 25 years, the number of miles vehicles have traveled on county roads has doubled.Amtrak ridership is up.But the number of Red Rose bus passengers is declining.So say local transportation statistics, according to Brian Funkhouser, a consultant with Gannett Flemin......
2007-11-02 03:22:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
At their only political debate this year the six candidates for Lancaster City Council outlined different strategies for stimulating economic development during the next four years.Three four-year terms are up for grabs on Tuesday. The League of Humane Voters sponsored Thursday night's......
2007-10-30 02:30:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
People formed multiple lines on the third floor of Lancaster General Health Campus Main Building about 15 minutes before Monday's meeting to discuss a study of Harrisburg Pike traffic.Eventually, about 110 area residents filtered into the meeting, where they got to look at preliminary ......
2007-10-28 00:18:00
GIL SMART, Associate editor
Jim Warner looks out his office window along Harrisburg Pike and sees traffic. Plenty of it is coming into the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority, where Warner is executive director. Over the past three years, like so much else on Harrisburg Pike, the facility has been renovated,......
2007-10-25 01:58:00
TOM KNAPP, Staff
Traffic generated by a proposed ethanol plant in Conoy Township would have only a marginal effect on the local community, a traffic engineer testified Wednesday.The number of vehicles entering and exiting the site would be so slight, according to engineer Jeffrey G. Bergsten, that state De......
2007-10-23 03:01:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
A lengthy hearing into whether a 646,000-square-foot shopping complex will be built in Manheim Township across from Long's Park continued Monday, with the project's opponents going on the offensive.Attorney William J. Cluck — representing a group of residents calling themselv......
2007-10-17 20:09:00
LAURA KNOWLES, Correspondent
Elizabeth Township supervisors approved improvements Oct. 8 to the traffic signal at Route 501 and Brubaker Valley Road that has operated for several months.The engineering updates include LED street light installation at a cost of $2,748 and a sign for "Traffic Signal Ahead" at ......
2007-10-17 20:04:00
LAURA KNOWLES, Correspondent
Warwick Township will be looking at ways to improve traffic along the Route 772 corridor.At the Oct. 3 meeting of supervisors, township manager Daniel Zimmerman reported a feasibility study will be split five ways between Warwick Township and adjacent municipalities where Route 772 is loca......
2007-10-17 11:24:00
DAVID O’CONNOR, Staff
The place where State Road meets Route 283 has long been identified as "a dangerous intersection, and we are committed to finding a solution," local official John Bingham said. With plans being developed for a nearly $20 million project that would be completed by around 2013, East Hem......
2007-10-17 02:28:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
The builders of a proposed $40 million shopping center along Route 30 passed a major hurdle Tuesday night as the East Lampeter Township supervisors approved their conditional-use application.East Lampeter supervisors voted 3-1, with one abstention, to move Mill Creek Square, a 300,000-squa......
2007-10-16 01:03:00
TOM KNAPP, Staff
A tense meeting in Mount Joy Township turned volatile Monday after one resident threw his agenda at supervisors and a police officer was summoned to keep order.Residents gathered in force to oppose a new host agreement, which deals with issues relating to zoning and traffic, between the to......
2007-10-06 02:58:00
JAMES BUESCHER, Correspondent
Some would argue conservative southern Lancaster County has always resisted change, but when it comes to the realigned intersection of Routes 272 and 372 at the Buck, residents' refusal to adapt could wind up costing lives.A Drumore Township official pleaded Friday for residents to fol......
2007-10-04 11:14:00
JANE HOLAHAN, Staff
When a shutdown hits Route 30 in Lancaster County, it can affect traffic everywhere. Now add routes 222, 283, 272 and 23 to that list. Can you say gridlock? Drivers in Lancaster County felt the ripple effect of President Bush's visit to the Jay; Group in West Hempfield Township We......
2007-10-04 02:08:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
Though most people didn't get to see President Bush in person Wednesday, plenty came away with traffic tales to remember his visit by.Some missed doctor's appointments. Others were late for work or for picking up kids at day care.Still others, desperate to avoid sitting in t......
2007-09-27 02:07:00
LORI VAN INGEN, Staff
What had been called one of the worst intersections in Lancaster County became much safer Wednesday when the state opened a new, realigned intersection of Routes 272 and 372 at the Buck.Route 372 was rerouted 1,250 feet south to meet Friendly Drive at Route 272. Friendly Drive also was wid......
2007-09-26 11:01:00
BERNARD HARRIS, Staff
Motorists long-accustomed to seeing red on four of the county's main traffic corridors may see more green on the distant horizon. Lancaster County transportation planners on Monday approved funding for traffic-signal coordination on Centerville Road, Columbia Avenue, Rohrerstown Road and Lititz......
2007-09-25 11:10:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
Huge amounts of sludge spilled across the southbound lanes of heavily-traveled Route 222 in Manheim Township shortly before 7 a.m. today. A southbound truck that was hauling the sludge lost about half its load after the driver applied his brakes in the area of the Landis Valley Road overpass......
2007-09-24 00:45:00
LAURA KNOWLES, Correspondent
The effect of traffic on downtown Lititz and a proposed left-turn lane on Route 501 dominated the second of three hearings for rezoning that would allow a new Target store to be built south of Lititz.The hearing was held Friday at the Warwick supervisors meeting and was dedicated to traffi......
2007-09-23 00:18:00
GIL SMART, Associate editor
Paula Jackson remembers standing in an orange vest along South Queen Street near Engleside, flagging down truckers. Not that she needed a ride. She just wondered where they were headed. It was 2002, and city and county officials were concerned about truck traffic on Lancaster streets. Resi......
2007-09-21 13:34:00
STAFF REPORT
THEFTSMANHEIM TWP.: Kathleen J. Rakos, 45, Lititz, said four credit cards were stolen from her wallet Tuesday evening while she was dining at Ruby Tuesday's, 2002 Fruitville Pike, township police learned. The cards were used at nearby establishments to pur......
2007-09-19 00:37:00
DEAN LEE EVANS, Correspondent
Rapho Township supervisors revealed more details on a new commercial retail zone but took no action during a special meeting Sept. 11 before a standing-room-only audience.Supervisors began the revision process a few years ago because of potential development of a 60-acre tract between rout......
2007-09-18 11:00:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III, Staff
A truck driver from Lancaster was injured when his flatbed rig crashed into the back of another flatbed truck Monday morning on Route 283 in Dauphin County, Harrisburg state police said. Melvin Ramos-Correa, 26, of 39 Garden Court, was flown to Hershey Medical Center following the 7:35 a.m. cra......
2007-09-13 11:30:00
TOM MURSE, Staff
If you've been driving to work before daybreak for any length of time, you've probably noticed something peculiar shaping up on the roads in recent years. It's called traffic. And no, it's not your imagination. The most dramatic change to our daily commute in the last ......
2007-09-13 11:27:00
BERNARD HARRIS, Staff
A commuter in Maryland can get a look at the beltways around Baltimore and Washington without picking up the car keys. In Orlando, Fla., a motorist can get a look at downtown traffic congestion without ever leaving the driveway. Philadelphia commuters can see maps and video presentations s......
2007-09-12 00:44:00
JUSTIN STOLTZFUS, Correspondent
Penn Township supervisors agreed Monday to participate in a statewide program intended to improve dangerous intersections.Township supervisor and roadmaster Daryl Lefever brought the program to the board's attention.He said the state offers to provide planning to municipalities at n......
2007-09-06 11:25:00
RYAN ROBINSON and ANYA LITVAK, Staff
Two county commissioners are dropping support for a new Route 23 in eastern Lancaster County. Commissioners Molly Henderson and Sharron Nelson said they planned to tell the state transportation department today that they do not want a new highway built. The commissioners' lack of su......
2007-09-05 01:39:00
ANNIE GINDER, Correspondent
The state Department of Transportation last month addressed concerns over the upcoming Route 324 bridge replacement project.Residents at Martic Township's June 4 supervisor meeting expressed their opposition to the new bridge's design. They argued it would create traffic flow probl......
2007-09-02 00:18:00
GIL SMART, Associate editor
Dick McLaughlin sat in his 1950 Oldsmobile Business Coupe at James and North Queen streets. Next to him sat a guy in a 1958 Oldsmobile 98 Holiday. The light turned green and both cars rocketed forward. A hard right at Liberty, then onto Duke; down Duke to Orange, back onto Queen. "I beat h......
2007-08-27 00:35:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Sure, the balloons, live music and carnival games in the parking lot behind Rosa Rosa Ristorante Italiano on North Charlotte Street Sunday said "festival."But it was the homemade, plywood, carpet-covered bocce court that said "Italian festival.""It's an ......
2007-08-25 12:08:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
It's not this week's fair out on East High Street or the start of the new school year on Monday that's the talk of the town these days in Elizabethtown. It's traffic. That's because Tuesday morning will mark the start of the much-anticipated West Bainbridge Street road closure, a move that......
2007-08-22 01:02:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK, Correspondent
Traffic flow through Market Square in Manheim Borough could be improved, but the consequences include removal of 18 parking spaces or widespread disruption of traffic signals, council learned Aug. 14.Council heard Doug Plank, a traffic engineer with ELA Group, presented options for the int......
2007-08-15 00:36:00
JUSTIN STOLTZFUS, Correspondent
Traffic improvements along Doe Run Road expected to cost as much as $900,000 were discussed by Penn Township supervisors Monday.Supervisors agreed to pursue funding for a traffic signal and turn lanes at the entrance of Doe Run Partners L.P. shopping center which is anchored by Weis Market......
2007-08-15 00:18:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK, Correspondent
Rapho Township supervisors discussed issues relating to traffic along Route 772 and development of Rapho Community Park July 19.The supervisors approved the installation of a traffic signal at Elmcrest Boulevard and Route 772. Elmcrest Boulevard is the main entrance drive to the mixed resi......
2007-08-11 01:20:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Starting Aug. 20, motorists can expect detours along Route 722 that will last until October.As part of the development between East Petersburg Borough and the Wetherburn and Wetherburn North communities in Manheim Township, about $2 million in highway improvements will be made.That ......
2007-08-09 01:04:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
Traffic, taxes and trolleys were among the many concerns discussed Wednesday at the last of five town meetings held by Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray.The mayor and a number of other city officials, along with about 80 city residents, met at John F. Reynolds Middle School, sweating together in a......
2007-08-01 11:06:00
DAVID O’CONNOR, Staff
It stretches from the heart of the cityscape, past Lancaster County's largest mall and other major traffic producers, and into the heart of the countryside. It's a major gateway into the city, "and it certainly has changed more than any other traffic corridor than I can think of......
2007-08-01 01:44:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
Traffic concerns again were the center of dispute as a hearing continued on a proposed shopping complex in Manheim Township.In yet another lengthy installment of what promises to be a very long hearing — three more hearing dates were agreed to Tuesday — opponents of the 650,000......
2007-07-31 01:28:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Many motorists traveling north on Queen Street this week will face a longer drive than usual.That's because, starting today, developers of the $170 million hotel/convention center at Penn Square will be closing the intersection of South Queen and Vine streets.The closure is schedule......
2007-07-30 20:05:00
STAFF REPORT
PennDOT will kick off a Fruitville Pike-Route 772 resurfacing project Tuesday morning that will cause traffic delays between Manheim and East Petersburg boroughs.Construction crews will begin cleaning, grubbing, road base repair and other site preparation for the resurfacing project along ......
2007-07-27 11:46:00
TIM MEKEEL, Staff
Keep on trucking?Not Alcoa. The local plant is spending $2.4 million to build another railroad spur, so it can begin to use railroad cars to bring in a kind of aluminum ingot. The project, part of $14 million being invested to upgrade the 1480 Manheim Pike complex, will replace 5,000 tr......
2007-07-21 01:09:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Construction of the hotel/convention center in downtown Lancaster will cause periodic closings of South Queen Street between the end of July and October, developers said Thursday."It's going to be happening on an every-other-week basis," said construction manager Tim Sullivan......
2007-07-18 11:14:00
DAVID O’CONNOR, Staff
It's designed to "prevent excessive levels of sound that may be a public health and welfare hazard." In other words, TOO LOUD. East Hempfield Township could adopt its first-ever noise ordinance this evening, a measure that would establish fines and other penalties for those who rev thei......
2007-07-14 11:45:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A motorist from Christiana caused about $1,700 worth of damage for a Strasburg Township farmer on Wednesday night, Lancaster state police said. David Ross Hersh Jr., 30, of 663 Noble Road, Christiana, faces about a half-dozen charges, including agricultural vandalism, from his actions, Trooper ......
2007-07-06 13:15:00
BERNARD HARRIS, Staff
Late next month, Franklin & Marshall College is due to reopen for the semester and to open the doors on its new College Row student building. For F&M, the opening of the $30 million building will bring nearly all of its students into college housing. For local motorists, it mean......
2007-07-05 13:29:00
JUSTIN STOLTZFUS, Correspondent
Penn Township supervisors are looking for solutions to traffic problems on a stretch of Lititz Road near Fruitville Pike after residents complained about speeding and unsafe driving. Supervisors responded June 25 to residents speaking at recent meetings about motorcycle races, vehicles passing ......
2007-06-27 12:21:00
RYAN ROBINSON
West Lampeter planners Thursday night will consider one of two developments that together propose 600 or more new homes and, of course, more traffic. Both are planned along Millport Road, east of Lampeter Road. Keystone Custom Homes of Willow Street will update the township's planning comm......
2007-06-16 12:54:00
David O'Connor and Chad Umble
George Resh and his neighbors "may not all be in complete agreement right now" as to the best solution for a problem literally on their doorstep. But Resh and other East Hempfield Township neighbors do agree "that we want our voices heard" by elected officials across the bor......
2007-06-07 14:51:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Willis Barton, of Manheim Township, worries it will be "a major traffic nightmare if that mall goes up." East Hempfield Township resident Cindy Brodbeck, who lives nearby, feels like "Lancaster County deserves better, especially at such a beautiful gateway into the city. &qu......
2007-06-07 01:36:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
A standing-room-only crowd packed Manheim Township Municipal Offices Wednesday evening to discuss the a shopping center proposed for Harrisburg Pike across from Long's Park.Many of the residents who attended the public hearing voiced opposition to the project, the Crossings at Conestog......
2007-05-30 14:32:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
East Hempfield officials are using words like "huge" and "massive" to describe the traffic impact on their township's roads if Lancaster County's second-largest shopping center is built. But the president of Manheim Township's board of commissioners is urging East Hempfield officials, and all o......
2007-05-30 01:17:00
STAFF REPORT
Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray once was involved with a nonprofit organization's two-year strategic planning effort.When it was done, he recounted Tuesday morning, they had a three-inch-thick binder."Thank God, I won't have to look at this again," one committee member commented.Gr......
2007-05-29 01:23:00
KIM O'BRIEN, Staff
Beginning today and continuing weekdays until June 22, traffic will be briefly stopped daily along North Queen Street as workers blast rock at the construction site of Lancaster General Hospital's new parking garage.Traffic will be temporarily stopped in the 500 block of North Queen for 15......
2007-05-23 14:25:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Construction is booming in Lancaster City — specifically at the site of a new parking garage at Lancaster General Hospital. Starting next week, traffic will be diverted briefly each day at the construction site along North Queen Street while workers blast rock. Beginning Tuesday and ......
2007-05-23 13:58:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
A young East Earl Township boy died after he was struck by a car Tuesday afternoon on a township road near Terre Hill, investigators said. Thomas Martin, 4, was crossing Long Lane, east of Quarry Road, when he was struck at about 2:30, according to investigators. The boy reportedly was run......
2007-05-02 13:55:00
Staff Report
The Lancaster City Traffic Commission on Tuesday gave Franklin & Marshall College planners a green light to develop plans to slow speeders on Race Avenue. Steve Sproles, a planner for Derck and Edson landscape architectural firm, told commission members that plans drafted for the college in......
2007-05-02 01:55:00
Larry Alexander, Staff
Lancaster city's traffic commission Tuesday gave Franklin & Marshall College the go-ahead to develop a controversial traffic-calming plan for Race Avenue that includes raised intersections and curbs that bulge into the roadway.Steve Sproles, a planner for Derck and Edson, told the ......
2007-04-26 12:47:00
Staff Report
School District of Lancaster is considering building a drop-off area at King Elementary School to alleviate unsafe traffic conditions. The school board last month hired ELA Group Inc. to design a paved area outside the school entrance that would not block traffic on Rockland Street. Cars r......
2007-04-26 01:28:00
Brian Wallace, Staff
School District of Lancaster is considering building a drop-off area at King Elementary School to alleviate unsafe traffic conditions near the school.The SDL board last month hired ELA Group Inc. to design a paved area outside the school entrance that would allow parents to drop off and pi......
2007-04-24 14:22:00
AD CRABLE
Hang onto your horn. Dillerville Road has been closed 12 days now and there has been nary a traffic jam, officials say. No more than usual, anyway, on the busy Harrisburg and Manheim pikes, which are absorbing the 18,000 vehicles a day that used the busy Dillerville cutover. Route 30 completes ......
2007-04-12 01:22:00
Carla Di Fonzo, Staff
Construction for Wetherburn Commons, a village-style development in Manheim Township, has been coming along without a hitch since construction began in January 2006."I'd say we're a third of the way through," said Barry Hogan, a partner in Hogan and Herr, which is develop......
2007-02-23 14:01:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Rush-hour traffic in and around Lancaster has shifted this month, due to parking changes at the county's largest employer. Lancaster General has moved all of its first-shift employees out of its parking garage between Duke and Queen streets. It now is shuttling the workers from Burle I......
2007-01-03 01:19:13
Brett Hambright
Sixty-two people died in 59 fatal traffic wrecks last year. That is just above 59.9, the average number of traffic fatalities for the previous 10 years.
Sixty-seven people lost their lives on county roadways in 2005, the most since 1997, when 70 people died.
The highest single-month tr...
2006-11-13 13:49:46
John M. Hoober Iii
And Lancaster City police were searching for a motorist whose vehicle struck more than 15 parked cars along narrow streets in the Cabbage Hill area after daybreak. The Route 283 crashes happened just before 7 a.m. in the westbound lanes near the State Road exit. The accidents involved seven vehic......
2006-11-08 00:52:28
Brett Hambright
Jesus Medina Jr., 42, of 111 Green St., fled police after they stopped him at 2:20 a.m. at Marietta and North West End avenues for a missing tail light, the affidavit says.
Driving with his headlights off, Medina rammed an occupied police cruiser and attempted to hit three officers — tw...
2006-08-16 13:14:48
By Cindy Stauffer And Tom Murse
Tractor-trailers and cars with Jersey license plates buzzed up and down the strip lined with hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions. Landscapers spruced up flower beds along the highway. “Call for Special Rates and Packages” flashed the digital sign at the Lancaster Host Resort. Around mi......
2006-05-23 08:05:08
Paula Holzman, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Roughly five ongoing construction projects will alter traffic patterns downtown for the next several months.
"Unusual, yes, but I'm happy to see it," said Sgt. Gary Metzger, head of the city police department's traffic unit.
"It's good for downtown Lancaster. It's progress."
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2006-01-03 09:30:59
Brett Lovelace, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Route 272 was the deadliest stretch of county roadway in 2005, as seven people died in accidents on that stretch of highway.
The year's worst crash happened Feb. 6 in Lancaster city while football fans watched the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots play in the Super Bowl.
Rya...
2005-12-10 11:42:48
Chad Umble
A Lemoyne-based real-estate developer wants to bring a large-scale home improvement store to West Earl Township, near the intersection of Routes 322 and 222. The 116,000-square-foot store would be the second largest home improvement store in the area. A 130,000-square-foot Home Depot is being bui......
2005-11-16 10:27:37
Groff stopped his vehicle on the north berm of the road and walked east approximately 100 feet, Edmunds said. As he returned to his vehicle, Groff walked onto the highway and into the path of an eastbound vehicle driven by Nancy J. Neff, of Georgetown Road, Ronks.
Neff and a passenger, Lorain...
2005-11-15 12:59:05
John M. Hoober Iii
The victim, Leonard W. Groff, 88, of 371 Mount Pleasant Road, Quarryville, was driving a vehicle that sideswiped a loose horse on the 700 block of Strasburg Road (Route 741), Trooper Kevin S. Edmunds said. Groff stopped his vehicle along the north berm of the highway and walked east for about 100......
2005-10-06 12:38:42
Dom Yanchunas
The mishap around 6 a.m. caused a major traffic jam during the morning rush hour. Police had commuters moving again along Route 72 by 8 a.m. The damage occurred where a detour already was set up because water repairs were taking place near Market Square, said Police Chief Barry Weidman. The tr......
2004-12-20 09:11:31
Justin Quinn
The driver, Antoine Lamar Shirley, 22, of 922 Old Wyomissing Road, initially was charged with one count each of possession of a firearm without a license, possession of a small amount of marijuana, making an illegal U-turn, driving the wrong way down a one-way street, driving with......
2004-06-21 13:24:00
David O'connor
“These guys are just such an inspirational band — it’s almost a spiritual feeling you get when you see them,” Debau said Sunday evening. He was sitting only 10 feet from the stage at the Long’s Park Amphitheater and pointing to the several guys up on the stage, known as Los Lobos, as they launche......
2004-06-16 09:31:20
Charles Lardner
No one was seriously injured in the crashes, but the highway was closed for hours near the Wrightsville Bridge.
The first crash occurred at 5:45 p.m. when a tractor-trailer veered off the highway and struck the side of the bridge, said Joe Groft, chief of Susquehanna Fire Company ......
2003-10-19 02:07:20
Gil Smart
It’s not your imagination.
It really is tougher getting around Lancaster city these days.
Blame prosperity and necessity. City officials say more streets have been restricted to one lane of traffic, in part, because there’s so much redevelopment taking place around town.
On the ...
2003-08-30 09:33:53
Charles Lardner
Although the reconstruction of the Route 30 bypass helped alleviate congestion on the highway, congestion on some of its feeder roads has not eased as much as hoped.
That's because the traffic signals that were installed during the Route 30 reconstruction were never ......
2003-06-17 09:56:24
Charles Lardner
Motorists will have a tough time threading their way through downtown Lancaster for the next two months while the city replaces a water main under King Street.
The $878,328 project is being done now because the state Department of Transportation is scheduled to repave portions ......
2003-04-15 09:51:21
Brett Lovelace
The 1 p.m. mishap caused traffic jams in the northern part of Lancaster city after police rerouted motorists away from McGovern Avenue. Traffic moving into the city from the Oregon Pike bridge onto McGovern Avenue was detoured to Liberty Street.
The employees at Lancaster Linco......