2012-02-07 23:04:00
BERNARD HARRIS
In the 52 years that Melvin Martin has been driving in Gap, he's seen the traffic at the intersection of Routes 30 and 41 grow much worse.
On Fridays and Saturdays, it typically sits bumper to bumper there, Martin said.
According to the state Transportation Department's rating sca......
2012-02-07 21:55:00
STAFF REPORT
The westbound Route 30 bridge over the Susquehanna River will be restricted to a single lane Thursday, Feb. 9, so potholes can be filled.
The closure of the right "travel lane" on the Wright's Ferry Bridge between Lancaster and York counties will occur between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., weat......
2012-02-07 14:54:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The state Transportation Department is holding an open house this evening, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., to display a proposal to eliminate the bottleneck at the intersection of Routes 30 and 41 at Gap.
The meeting will be held at the Gap Fire Company, 802 Pequea Ave. Interested people are invited......
2012-02-07 08:39:51
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pledged to cut traffic privileges for officials, who routinely bypass Moscow's notorious traffic jams by ignoring basic rules of the road and even driving into oncoming lanes.
The privileges are a strong irritant for Musco......
2012-02-07 07:49:45
Dozens of people were still missing Tuesday following a strong earthquake that triggered landslides and damaged buildings and roads on a central Philippine island. The death toll reached 22, but officials said it was likely to rise further as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas.......
2012-02-06 22:49:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster City Council members looked within and beyond the city's 7.4-square miles on Monday.
Beyond, the city's seven-member legislative panel prepared to wade into the national issue of "corporate personhood."
At a committee meeting, council members aired a draft of a resolutio......
2012-02-04 19:27:46
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) -- Bosnia's government declared a state of emergency in its capital on Saturday after Sarajevo was paralyzed by snow, while in Rome residents dug out from the city's biggest snowfall in 26 years, which shut down the Colosseum.
Th......
2012-02-03 22:38:07
The most powerful storm of the winter season pounded Colorado and parts of neighboring states on Friday, creating whiteout conditions on the eastern plains, cancelling more than 600 flights in Denver and closing hundreds of miles of highway between major Colorado cities and the Kans......
2012-02-03 14:47:26
Russia and Ukraine both took extra precautions on Friday to protect homeless people, ordering new facilities and medical care after scores of people have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during a brutal cold snap.
As the death toll from the past week rose......
2012-02-02 10:41:22
A section of Interstate 81 in Virginia remains closed following a chain-reaction tractor-trailer crash that killed a Pennsylvania man.
Virginia State Police tell media outlets that a northbound tractor-trailer hit a guardrail and overturned. Another tractor-trail......
2012-02-01 22:21:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Jenni Ferris is fortunate. Her home on Lancaster city's East Walnut Street has off-street parking.
Her neighbors have not been so lucky. Within the last few years they have had two vehicles struck on different occasions while parked along the busy street.
But city plans for rebuil......
2012-01-31 18:50:45
Whether it's a dust storm in Arizona, a whiteout in Maine or wildfire in Florida, the call to shut down a major highway usually rests with local officials, who in some cases have little, if any, written guidelines to follow.
In many cases, officials rely on what ......
2012-01-31 18:19:30
Whether it's a dust storm in Arizona, a whiteout in Maine or wildfire in Florida, the call to shut down a major highway usually rests with local officials, who in some cases have little, if any, written guidelines to follow.
In many cases, officials rely on what ......
2012-01-30 16:33:00
STAFF REPORT
The westbound Route 30 bridge over the Susquehanna River will be restricted to a single lane Tuesday so potholes can be filled and a railing repaired.
The lane closure on the Wright's Ferry Bridge between Lancaster and York counties will occur between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., weather permitting......
2012-01-29 22:38:41
A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were instantly blinded. At least 10 people were killed.
When rescuers first arrived, they could only listen for screams and......
2012-01-29 16:28:13
A long line of cars and trucks collided one after another early Sunday on a dark Florida highway so shrouded in haze and smoke that drivers were virtually blinded. At least 10 people were killed.
Visibility was so poor that when rescuers first arrived, they could......
2012-01-22 00:14:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
A $75 ticket for parking too close to a fire hydrant in the city has a Willow Street resident seeing red. While the law says drivers cannot park less than 15 feet from a hydrant, the distance can be difficult to "eyeball" the emailer wrote. The city once painted lines to mark ......
2012-01-21 16:49:11
A weekend storm blanketed Pennsylvania in the first significant snow of the season Saturday, causing flight delays and prompting speed limit reductions on some major roads.
The storm dropped as much as 7.5 inches of snow in west-central Pennsylvania's Cambria Cou......
2012-01-20 20:02:28
Chicago officials worked Friday to prevent a repeat of last year's "snowmageddon," when a blizzard left hundreds of drivers stranded along one of the city's main thoroughfares for up to 12 hours overnight.
With the city getting socked by its first major......
2012-01-20 19:24:16
Chicago officials are detouring buses off icy Lake Shore Drive, the iconic road running along Lake Michigan, in an effort to prevent a repeat of last year's "snowmageddon."
Hundreds of cars got trapped on the thoroughfare last February when 20 inches of......
2012-01-20 15:40:00
CHAD UMBLE
Elizabethtown's old traffic and pedestrian lights are headed for various private collections, which will bring some unexpected cash to the borough's bank account. Council members on Thursday approved four separate bids from interested persons seeking the old equipment — deals that will......
2012-01-19 16:36:00
JON FERGUSON
Dave Mason has enjoyed something of a curious career during his 50 years in the music business.
He's a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but he earned his ticket with a band -- Traffic -- that he joined, quit, rejoined and then quit again.
A songwriter all his life, Mason'......
2012-01-18 13:36:46
REDISTRICTING REFORM NEEDED NOW
Anyone who'd been away for a while and just come back to Cumberland County might be forgiven for thinking Rick Rovegno was still a county commissioner.
Out of office barely two weeks, Rovegno - who chose not to ......
2012-01-18 11:52:36
An AP Member Exchange. Please credit the member.......
2012-01-18 10:55:01
Air traffic controllers in Cyprus walked off the job for four hours on Wednesday to protest a two-year government worker wage freeze and other deficit-reduction measures.
The latest strike action on the island nation comes in the wake of last month's package of c......
2012-01-18 10:54:56
Air traffic controllers in Cyprus walked off the job for four hours on Wednesday to protest a two-year government worker wage freeze and other deficit-reduction measures.
The latest strike action on the island nation comes in the wake of last month's package of c......
2012-01-18 01:21:26
Seattle, a city more accustomed to rain than snow, prepared Tuesday for a potentially major snowstorm to hit as the city's mayor urged residents to stay off roads.
Many school districts in the western part of the state, including Seattle, canceled classes for Wed......
2012-01-17 22:27:00
TOM KNAPP
Route 272 soon will be restricted to a single lane over two bridges in northern Lancaster County.
The state Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that preliminary work has begun on the bridges, both of which lie between Ephrata and Reamstown.
The existing steel I-beam bri......
2012-01-15 00:15:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
The New Year's Day column about Amtrak's tree-trimming program in Mount Joy touched a few nerves. A resident of South Barbara Street wrote in an email, "My concern is now, with the trees gone, it is a dangerous situation for the kids in the neighborhood. ... The trees were a barrier for the ......
2012-01-14 11:35:10
Chris Burden's latest kinetic sculpture, "Metropolis II," does more than just imitate life. The colorful display of roads, cars, trains and buildings is art imitating what the artist foresees life being like in five or 10 years.
It will be a time, Burde......
2012-01-12 23:17:00
AD CRABLE
A commuter shortcut through Lancaster County Central Park in the city is permanently closed to motor traffic.
The loss for motorists will be a gain for pedestrians as the scenic half-mile section of Rockford Road along the Conestoga River now is dedicated to passive recreation.
"I......
2012-01-11 21:53:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Winning it all has become second nature to the Treadling Lambs and a Ram team.
The fleece-to-shawl squad, made up of six students from Lancaster and Dauphin counties, captured its second straight statewide title here at the Pennsylvania Farm Show on Wednesday.
Best of all, the eff......
2012-01-11 14:32:00
CINDY HUMMEL
A resident told Strasburg council members Tuesday that he and other citizens are concerned about recent changes made to a busy borough intersection. Dave Simmons said he has almost been hit on several occasions by cars backing out of the Strasburg Laundromat and Turkey Hill Minit Market onto......
2011-12-14 15:29:00
Staff
Motorists traveling on Route 30 near Gap endured long lines of traffic after a truck struck a traffic signal at Newport Road on Wednesday afternoon, resulting in wires falling across the road, state police said. Route 30 was shut down in both directions just before 2:40 p.m. and remained closed u......
2011-12-14 16:52:00
DEAN LEE EVANS
Now that a bridge replacement project in Mountville is complete, borough council Monday took action to return a local street to two-way traffic. In a 6-1 vote, council approved action to begin the process of reopening Spring Street to its original traffic configuration. Council members ......
2011-12-13 22:52:00
STAFF REPORT
Eastbound Route 30 on the Wrights Ferry Bridge over the Susquehanna River between York and Lancaster counties will be reduced to one lane for the daytime hours between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Weather permitting, the right eastbound lane will be closed to traffic and eastbound motoris......
2011-12-12 22:56:00
JENNIFER TODD
A Mount Joy woman died after her vehicle flipped over Monday afternoon on Route 283 in Rapho Township, state police said.
Stephanie Hanna, 36, was conscious immediately after the 3:30 p.m. crash, but she went into cardiac arrest while being transported to the hospital, according to Dr. St......
2011-12-09 21:41:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
The Crossings at Conestoga Creek is "a different project now" compared to the larger plan of some four years ago, East Hempfield Township Manager Robert Krimmel said.
But East Hempfield still needs financial help that would allow it to make required road improvements if the proposed Cross......
2011-12-02 22:34:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Several times each day, heavy trucks rumbling north on Lime Street shake the building housing the law office of Kegel, Kelin, Almy & Grimm.
Clarence Kegel Jr. describes the window-rattling events as similar to explosions. Pointing has fallen from between the bricks of the building, bu......
2011-11-30 22:21:00
TOM KNAPP
The South Duke Street bridge will reopen a little later than scheduled.
The bridge, which crosses the Conestoga River at Lancaster County Central Park, has been closed for repairs since June.
PennDOT officials said then that the bridge would be open by Nov. 4. They later revi......
2011-11-23 18:54:00
STAFF REPORT
A disabled tractor-trailer has snarled traffic on Route 30 near Columbia.
The truck is broken down in one of the westbound lanes on the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge, according to a dispatch supervisor.
The road remains open but traffic is reportedly backed up to Prospect Road.......
2011-11-20 00:15:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Could the relocation of the Lititz Pike bridge over the Amtrak tracks solve the McGovern Avenue lane-changing problems mentioned here two weeks ago? That possibility was raised by two emailers who asked for an update on the bridge project's status. Another emailer wanted to kn......
2011-11-16 23:27:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Busy Centerville Road in East Hempfield Township has had a restriction on heavy truck traffic for years.
And for years, "residents have complained about truck traffic, especially tractor-trailers" along Centerville Road, township police Chief Stephen Skiles said.
On Wednesday, the......
2011-11-15 22:31:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The Traffic Commission giveth and the Traffic Commission taketh away.
Two months after Lancaster city Traffic Commission members approved the addition of 88 parking meters along city streets, the commission voted Tuesday to remove 10 of those meters on one block and add one in another....
2011-11-14 23:09:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Correction Nov. 15, 2011 — An earlier version of the story below about transportation projects planned in Lancaster County contained incorrect information. Traffic signal improvements will be done in Salisbury Township, Somerset Coun......
2011-11-13 19:20:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
We like having you in our township, an East Hempfield Planning Commission member told Lancaster General Health representatives Wednesday night.
But while the planners liked LG Health's plan for a new cancer center at its suburban health campus off Harrisburg Avenue, they want one thing be......
2011-11-02 10:09:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Westbound Route 30 traffic was delayed in Manheim Township this morning because of two vehicle wrecks, a county dispatch supervisor said.
Both occurred shortly after 9:30 along westbound Route 30 near the New Holland Pike (Route 23) exit, she said.
The first involved two vehicles ......
2011-10-24 14:10:00
TERESA BONO
Mount Joy Township supervisors rejected the police commission's request to hire a new officer and promote another to detective Oct. 17, stating they couldn't afford it. A 19 percent increase in health insurance premiums and an almost doubling of the worker's compensation rate were singled ou......
2011-10-20 21:41:00
BERNARD HARRIS
On Saturday, the state Department of Transportation's paving deadline, the sun shone brightly on Lancaster County.
Not so the day before, or on many other days since the start of the asphalt paving season April 1.
In fact, the county has received a third more rain than normal so f......
2011-10-19 10:32:00
RYAN ROBINSON
No one was injured in a tractor trailer wreck that caused some traffic delays this morning in Salisbury Township, police said.
The truck driver was headed west on Route 772, just north of Denlinger Road, at 6:27 a.m., state police Corporal Warren Rhyner said.
The tractor trailer h......
2011-10-12 20:40:00
STAFF REPORT
A portion of Peartown Road in West Cocalico Township was closed Monday to allow repair of a section damaged by flooding during Tropical Storm Lee last month, state Department of Transportation officials said Tuesday.
Peartown Road, between Laurel Ridge Road and the Berks County line, is e......
2011-10-10 21:59:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A two-car accident on Route 222 near Landis Valley Road left at least two people injured Monday.
"It was between a sedan and a pickup truck," said Rick Kane, municipal fire chief for Manheim Township. "It happened right at Landis Valley Road."
He had no details on the cause.
......
2011-10-10 19:06:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Eastbound Route 30 traffic on the Wrights Ferry Bridge over the Susquehanna River is reduced to one lane this week as freshly poured concrete hardens and bearings are replaced.
The single-lane restriction will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily through Thursday, state Transportation Departme......
2011-10-05 14:56:00
KIMBERLY MARSELAS
Will Ephrata-area businesses that could benefit from an improved Route 322 corridor help advocate for costly infrastructure upgrades? Officials in Ephrata Township are hoping the answer is "yes," as they prepare to apply for a grant that would fund a major traffic and land-use study of the t......
2011-09-28 21:29:00
STAFF REPORT
Funeral services will be held Thursday for Lancaster Township firefighter Lt. Keith Rankin, who died after collapsing at a firefighter-training drill Sunday in West Lampeter Township.
A public service will be held at 2:30 p.m. at Charles F. Snyder Jr. Funeral Home & Crematory, 3110 Li......
2011-09-20 21:53:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster city officials and the Red Rose Transit Authority have reached an agreement that clears the way for North Queen Street to be repaved and for RRTA to get an occupancy permit when its new garage is completed.
City workers will begin work Wednesday to "properly abandon" old water a......
2011-09-15 23:00:00
BERNARD HARRIS
After two swings came up empty, Lancaster County transportation planners are hoping a third will be the charm.
Late next month, county officials plan to submit a $28.6 million application to make transportation improvements along Harrisburg Avenue and Pike, between Prince Street in Lancas......
2011-09-06 22:52:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The Lancaster Parking Authority got about half of what it wanted Tuesday.
The Lancaster Traffic Commission approved adding parking meters on six city blocks. That will mean 88 additional curbside meters in the city, but far less than the 170 proposed by the parking authority in July.
......
2011-09-04 15:38:00
JANE HOLAHAN
I realize I don't understand the complexity of traffic or the challenges of making traffic flow in a city.
But it's driving me crazy seeing all the effort out there to calm me down.
Perhaps you've heard of "traffic calming," which is designed to slow traffic. Lancaster city seems ......
2011-08-31 09:55:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Columbia Avenue was closed in both directions in Mountville for hours because of a vehicle wreck there early this morning, Manor Township police said.
A vehicle crashed in the area of Oak Ridge Drive and the 3800 block of Columbia Avenue at about 2:20 a.m., police said. A utility pole was......
2011-08-29 23:25:00
BERNARD HARRIS
After rush hour Tuesday evening, workers will begin overnight paving on Lancaster city's North Queen and North Prince streets.
The paving will put the final 2-inch wearing surface on portions of the roadways, which received their initial 1-inch leveling course of pavement last fall. Addit......
2011-08-22 21:18:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Correction Aug. 23, 2011 — Contrary to information in the article below, roadwork on Route 72 in Manheim Borough began last week.
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Work on Route 72 i......
2011-08-15 21:24:00
JIMMY PIANKA
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission last week launched an online survey to determine what impact switching to an All-Electronic Tolling system would have on motorists and highway operations.
The system would be based on the popular service E-ZPass.
The survey, which will end Mond......
2011-08-09 20:24:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Traffic gridlock can be a problem in East Hempfield Township.
So when there's a business development that offers a solution — even a small one — it's all good, one township resident said recently.
"I'm just excited to see a project that reduces traffic. … You do......
2011-08-05 13:29:00
PATRICK BURNS
Increased truck traffic along the winding roads in West Cocalico Township will diminish if the board of supervisors has its way. The board on Thursday put in motion a plan that would keep huge trailers, some as long as 53 feet, off neighborhood streets such as Indiantown and Short roads....
2011-08-03 08:38:00
KIMBERLY MARSELAS
Officials in Ephrata Township are planning to ask the county to support a widening of the Route 322 corridor, paving the way for more lanes and state and federal funding.
Over the next several years, the already-congested stretch of road —most of it just two lanes — is slated ......
2011-07-31 00:21:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
As the light turns yellow, you hit the gas. As yellow turns to red, you plow through the intersection, "beating" the light. If a recommendation by a state panel were to become law — the light might beat you. On Monday, the Pennsylvania Transportation Funding Advisor......
2011-07-15 10:22:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Thirty-one people were cited with speeding on Route 222 near Route 30 on Thursday, police reported.
The highest speed cited in the 55 mph zone was 81 mph, Manheim Township police said.
The traffic enforcement detail was part of Pennsylvania's Aggressive Driving program.
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2011-07-13 15:49:00
BERNARD HARRIS
During an 85-day period this spring, there were 42 days when work on the downtown Lancaster repaving and streetscape project was halted because of rain, city public works director Charlotte Katzenmoyer said. Other days, when rain was in the forecast, concrete was not ordered, ......
2011-07-11 22:17:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Centerville Road, between Columbia Avenue and Marietta Pike, has twice as many traffic accidents as the state average. About half of those accidents are rear-end collisions fueled by the backed-up traffic that plagues that stretch of road. East Hempfield Township officials have wanted to do ......
2011-07-05 23:23:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster City Traffic Commission on Tuesday gave developers the green light for two-way traffic in the 400 block of North Water Street and put the brakes on plans to install 170 additional parking meters along city streets.
Tom Ponessa, who plans to build a pair of buildings at the north......
2011-07-03 00:01:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Parking in the City of Lancaster could soon get a little easier — and costlier.
This week, the Lancaster Parking Authority will unveil a proposal to expand the number of parking meters in the city by some 17 percent, adding 170 new meters along eight city streets, all of them north ......
2011-06-26 20:26:00
STAFF
The investigation of a two-vehicle accident in East Lampeter Township Saturday that left two people injured continued Sunday.
Police still did not release the names of the victims, pending notification of family members.
Two people riding a motorcycle were traveling on the shoulde......
2011-06-26 00:15:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
A traffic signal on Harrisburg Pike with a quick green-light trigger finger has been fixed to improve traffic flow. The problem was raised by drivers who frequent Harrisburg Pike between Route 30 and Long's Park who felt the light at the entrance/exit at Toys R Us caused traff......
2011-06-19 22:19:00
BERNARD HARRIS
For years, vehicles drove over loose paving stones in the first block of North Market Street and made a dull, chattering sound.
Now, with the Central Market renovations nearly complete, city officials are turning their attention to replacing those paving stones and making improvements to ......
2011-06-01 14:28:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Two accidents early this afternoon shut down parts of Route 30 in West and East Hempfield townships.
A 2 p.m. accident shut down a westbound lane of the Wright's Ferry Bridge over the Susquehanna River in West Hempfield Township.
A motorist's vehicle broke down in the construction......
2011-05-31 15:11:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A vehicle accident closed a stretch of the Lititz Pike at mid-afternoon.
The 2:30 p.m. accident, at East Woods Drive and Lititz Pike, shut down part of the busy road just south of Lititz in Warwick Township, emergency officials said.
Someone was trapped in a vehicle, according to ......
2011-05-21 10:23:00
Brett Hambright
BY BRETT HAMBRIGHT Staff Writer A tractor-trailer loaded with hay caught fire early Saturday morning on Route 30 in Paradise Township, closing the highway for five hours. The flat-bed trailer was carrying 15 tons of dry hay when it ignited about 3:30 a.m. in the 3400 block of Route......
2011-05-19 10:10:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A tractor-trailer overturned on the ramp from eastbound Route 30 to northbound Route 222 early Thursday.
No injuries occurred in the 9:30 a.m. accident, Manheim Township police said.
No hazardous materials were on the truck, but it did leak some fuel, police said.
The ramp......
2011-05-10 22:25:00
TOM KNAPP
The South Duke Street bridge over the Conestoga River is scheduled to close for repairs within the next few weeks.
The state Department of Transportation opened bids in May 2010 for the design-and-build project to replace the superstructure of the aging bridge. PennDOT spokesman Greg Penn......
2011-05-10 09:11:00
STAFF REPORT
Traffic patterns changed for eastbound motorists on Route 30 approaching the Wright's Ferry Bridge over the Susquehanna River between York and Lancaster counties on Tuesday.
Motorists will have to choose to take either a newly opened "express lane," installed on the westbound side of the ......
2011-05-08 00:13:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Some Warwick Township residents wonder if someone got his signals crossed. Callers and emailers questioned the placement of left-turn arrows on traffic lights installed at West Millport Road and Woodcrest Avenue in the township. West Millport Road ends in a "T" where it i......
2011-04-29 22:17:00
STAFF REPORT
As motorists head into Lancaster city on Saturday, caution is the byword. The YWCA Race Against Racism and the 2011 American Spirit Parade will be held on city streets.
The 5k Race Against Racism begins at 9 a.m. at Musser Park. Runners will circle around the campus of McCaskey High and L......
2011-04-29 11:36:00
STAFF REPORT
A pickup truck pulling a small trailer of hot tar wrecked in the city on Friday, causing traffic problems.
The driver was traveling west on Vine Street and tried to turn left onto South Prince Street about 10:20 a.m.
The trailer tipped, throwing the tar on a parked car and the roa......
2011-04-22 21:17:00
MARCELLA PEYRE-FERRY
More than 100 people turned out for Wednesday's Colerain Township supervisors meeting to express concerns about the upcoming closure of the Route 472 bridge linking Lancaster and Chester counties over the Octoraro Lake.
"We have nothing we can do," Supervisor Walter Todd said, explaining ......
2011-04-19 08:31:00
P.J. REILLY and RYAN ROBINSON
Repairs were completed and both westbound lanes of the Route 30 bridge have been reopened, according to a PennDOT spokesman. A piece of metal sticking up from the deck of the Wright's Ferry Bridge over the Susquehanna River damaged more than 30 vehicles, forcing the closure of the westbound ......
2011-04-18 23:32:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Ryan Kreider said Sunday that he had heard that PennDOT planned to work on the Octoraro Creek bridge, but that was just a proposal being discussed.
And he said he expected that when the state Department of Transportation got around to doing the work, it would keep open the bridge that car......
2011-04-14 12:31:00
CINDY STAUFFER
A ladder fell onto a busy highway Thursday morning, damaging vehicles that hit it.
East Hempfield Township police received multiple calls about the 8-foot ladder, which had fallen into the middle of both westbound lanes of Route 30, just west of Good Drive.
"That can create accide......
2011-04-06 21:36:00
P.J. REILLY
Fourteen covered bridges across Lancaster County will be getting face-lifts this year, and another is up for a complete overhaul next year.
Each one will be closed during its renovations.
Lancaster County commissioners on Wednesday approved three contracts with the Lancaster engin......
2011-04-03 00:16:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Some readers wondered if Big Brother is adding more eyes. They cited numerous intersections around the county where devices which look like cameras have sprouted on traffic signal standards, and questions arose regarding whether surrounding townships were taking the city's lead in video came......
2011-03-29 18:33:00
STAFF
The state Department of Transportation has resumed work on a project to repair and resurface Route 322 from 400 feet west of Route 501 in Elizabeth Township through the villages of Brickerville and Clay to the intersection with Durlach Road/Wood Corner Road in Clay Township. The nearly 5-mil......
2011-03-24 22:57:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Traffic was backed up on South Queen Street Thursday, as PPL workers repaired an electrical vault and closed one lane of the northbound artery at Penn Square.
It was backed up like that earlier this week, too.
And next month, it will only get worse.
"To put it lightly, thi......
2011-03-24 22:35:00
TOM KNAPP
Traffic lanes are shifting on Route 30 near Columbia to accommodate a $9.3 million rehabilitation project on Wright's Ferry Bridge.
The 39-year-old bridge over the Susquehanna River is due for extensive maintenance that will take two construction seasons to complete, wrapping up in Novemb......
2011-03-22 21:02:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Blow out your first candle. Take your first steps. Look out the front windshield.
It used to be a rite of passage for children. When they hit their first birthday, their parents could turn their car seats around, from the rear-facing to the forward-facing position.
But a new recom......
2011-03-20 19:07:00
TOM KNAPP
A motorist killed Saturday afternoon in Paradise Township was identified by officials Sunday as 52-year-old Thomas Downing of Coatesville.
Downing and a 3-year-old boy, a Coatesville resident whose name police did not release, were killed when the Jeep that Downing was driving collided wi......
2011-03-20 16:25:00
STAFF
Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at Lancaster Public Library, 125 N. Duke St.
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2011-03-15 21:19:00
DEAN LEE EVANS
Until the bridge replacement project in Mountville Borough is completed in October, motorists are directed to detours outside the borough onto Donerville and Prospect roads.
Near the Main Street project's eastern edge, a new step will take effect Wednesday.
The borough's narrow Sp......
2011-03-14 10:07:00
Staff
Traffic on Route 283 West backed up for miles for a time this morning near Elizabethtown.
A road crew was patching holes and shut down one lane near the Rheems exit in Mount Joy Township.
Traffic was backed up at about 9:45 a.m.......
2011-03-11 19:19:00
STAFF REPORT
Work will resume Monday on a project to repair and resurface Route 441 in western Lancaster County.
The work covers an area of 441 from Chickies Hill, just north of Route 30, through Marietta to the intersection with Route 772, the state Transportation Department said.
The 2.8-mil......
2011-03-10 12:10:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Seventeen vehicles got flat tires along Route 283 in East Hempfield Township this morning, police reported.
They drove over a piece of metal in the eastbound lanes at the State Road overpass at around 5:30 a.m., township police said.
No one was injured, police said.
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2011-03-02 22:24:00
P.J. REILLY
Lancaster County Transportation Authority has a message for Martic Township: Back off, or you're going to pay.
The authority on Wednesday voted to send the township supervisors a letter stating that Martic could be liable for the $400,000 spent so far on a PennDOT-approved realig......
2011-03-01 21:48:00
P.J. REILLY
Since 1989, motorists have been avoiding the Route 324 tunnel under the Enola Low-Grade Line in Martic Township by driving on a makeshift road that crosses over the abandoned rail line.
Tractor-trailers, large farm machines and firetrucks can't fit through the 12-foot-high underpass, and ......
2011-02-27 00:17:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Pedestrians on the Old Philadelphia Pike (Route 340) trying to negotiate the crosswalk at the Route 30 East exit ramp should walk carefully and carry a long stick. As a caller to "Lookout" noted, that's because the button that people must push to activate the green light is more than t......
2011-02-24 21:04:00
STAFF REPORT
The first block of East Chestnut Street, between Queen and Duke streets, will be closed Saturday in Lancaster city.
The closure will occur between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m., with eastbound traffic routed around the block. Message boards to direct traffic are expected to be put into place at the i......
2011-02-20 00:16:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
A patron of the new Manheim Township Public Library reports traffic gets stacked up at a short green light at Granite Run Drive and Fruitville Pike, making it difficult for drivers who want to turn left to head south on the pike. "At busy times," the patron said, "the first car is lucky to g......
2011-02-14 22:35:00
BERNARD HARRIS
On his way out the door last month, former state Department of Transportation Secretary Allen Biehler gave Lancaster County and 40 other communities a parting gift.
For Lancaster, that came in the form of a new road in Warwick Township and Lititz Borough.
On Monday, the ......
2011-02-11 22:17:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The bridge that carries Main Street over Amtrak tracks in Mountville will be closed as workers begin a seven-month replacement project.
Traffic will be detoured off Main Street, Route 462, starting Monday morning, Feb. 21, state Department of Transportation District 8 spoke......
2011-02-08 22:23:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Warmer temperatures might be a welcome relief for those weary of winter, but they don't do local roads any favors.
Workers for contractor J.D. Eckman Inc., spent Monday and Tuesday repairing sections of North Prince Street in Lancaster city, where potholes have appeared in recent weeks....
2011-02-07 17:59:00
TOM KNAPP
The covered bridge on Hunsecker Road once again is open to traffic.
The 37-year-old span, which bridges the gap over the Conestoga River between Upper Leacock and Manheim townships, was closed Sept. 16 after a one-car crash in its interior damaged weight-bearing beams.
Motorists f......
2011-02-06 00:12:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Red Rose Transit Authority riders contacted Lookout regarding some missing bus-stop benches in the city, and there's good news: They will return. The benches in question were once in the shelters directly across from Binns Park, in the 100 block of North Queen Street. According to RRTA ......
2011-01-30 00:15:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Drivers negotiating Route 72 in Manheim wonder why the recently installed traffic signal at Manheim and Fruitville pikes has not been activated. They're not alone. Manheim Borough officials want PennDOT to turn on the light. The signal was installed as part of a $2.8 million project to ......
2011-01-24 21:50:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A three-vehicle accident shut down eastbound Route 283 in Rapho Township Monday morning.
Commuters were able to pass the 7:45 a.m. wreck near the South Esbenshade Road exit on the highway's shoulder, Ephrata state police Trooper Keith Noll said.
Traffic had slowed to about 5 mph w......
2011-01-22 12:45:00
Enelly Betancourt
It has been a painful journey for the family, and they still have a ways to go, mother Angie Rossi said early Saturday morning as friends and family of John Griffith V gathered for a short graveside service in Penryn Cemetery, paying their last respects to the 16-year-old. He was o......
2011-01-19 20:32:00
JEFF HAWKES
A community today continues to grieve. Four teen boys, full of promise, are dead.
The loss is too painful for words. People are hurting, and lives have been turned upside down, never to be the same.
But after Friday's memorial service, after the graveside farewells, after the cand......
2011-01-13 22:38:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The envelope that arrived with Mike Goodman's mail last month was not a holiday card.
Instead, Goodman and 42 other people who own property near the Lititz Pike bridge received notice from PennDOT that the properties will be affected by construction of a new bridge.
The span will ......
2011-01-10 22:52:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The crossroads village of Rohrerstown in East Hempfield Township is ground zero for traffic congestion in Lancaster County.
According to preliminary study data released Monday, Route 741 — known as Rohrerstown Road in much of the studied area — is the most congested road in th......
2011-01-09 00:10:00
CHIP SMEDLEY
Lancaster city residents in the neighborhood around Hershey Avenue and Union Street contacted Lancaster Lookout with concerns about safety at the intersection. One problem is speeding and wrecks at the intersection, they said. Another is centered around the construction of a UGI "regulation ......
2011-01-05 22:11:00
BERNARD HARRIS
With 483 intersections with traffic lights, Lancaster County is one of the most signalized counties in the state, and most of those intersections are now energy efficient, county officials announced Wednesday.
Standing at the intersection of East King Street, Lampeter and Pitney roads and......
2011-01-02 20:19:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Even though it won't fit in a stocking, there's a holiday gift in the works for anyone who must drive through one of Lancaster County's most congested traffic spots.
It's the place in East Hempfield Township, just northwest of Lancaster, where Route 283 and State Road (Route 722) meet....
2010-12-13 15:32:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The Monterey Road Bridge over Muddy Run was reopened to traffic Monday afternoon.
The bridge, in Upper Leacock Township, was closed Aug. 9 as part of a $584,192 replacement project.
Final paving of the roadway approaches to the new bridge have not yet been completed and will await......
2010-12-09 21:18:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
A half-dozen or so cars pulled up to the intersection from both directions on a winter weekday.
And Manheim Township's fire chief just smiled as he looked at the non-rush-hour congestion at New Holland Pike and Eden Road, in front of Eden Fire Company.
With traffic backups a daily......
2010-12-01 21:17:00
BERNARD HARRIS
After six years of talking, planning and fundraising, work began last month on Eastern Market Plaza.
The construction site sat empty and equipment idle as rain fell Tuesday, but Tabor Community Services president Bob Thomas said he believes much of the work could be completed by Christmas......
2010-11-30 21:46:00
STAFF REPORT
Motorists traveling Route 230 in Mount Joy Wednesday night might find the road closed as workers install beams as part of a $1.6 million bridge-replacement project, a state Department of Transportation spokesman said Tuesday.
Construction crews are slated at 6 p.m. to start putting in pla......
2010-11-30 17:59:00
TOM KNAPP
Sometimes, new conveniences are a little inconvenient.
Just ask Jay Heisey, owner of Highlander Cleaners, 35 W. High St., Elizabethtown.
Heisey understands the need for new left-turn lanes in the main square at High and Market streets. The lanes, which are part of a larger project......
2010-11-22 23:01:00
BRIAN WALLACE
If you're feeling glum about being stuck at home for the upcoming holiday weekend, you might take some comfort in this:
Of the millions of folks who plan to travel over the Thanksgiving break, 94 percent of them will be doing so via their own car, truck or SUV — not by airplane, tra......
2010-11-19 17:37:00
STAFF REPORT
The Slackwater Road bridge, which spans the Conestoga River between Manor and Conestoga townships, reopened to traffic Friday afternoon.
The bridge was closed for reconstruction in June.
The project involved demolishing the old bridge, replacing the superstructure, repairing wing ......
2010-11-09 18:18:00
PATRICK BURNS
A disagreement over an intersection design could spoil plans to build a new Turkey Hill Minit Mart at Route 23 and Swamp Road in Caernarvon Township.
John Roche, Caernarvon engineer, said Turkey Hill's plan to direct traffic from the store heading south onto Swamp Road (Route 10) comprise......
2010-11-01 22:45:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Downtown merchants may get the turnover they want and residents with parking meters in front of their homes may get two extra hours to ignore them under a proposal expected to come before City Council in coming weeks.
Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray said he would ask the city solicitor to draft......
2010-10-28 21:19:00
RYAN ROBINSON and JENNIFER TODD
Two related three-vehicle wrecks injured two people and snarled traffic on Routes 30 and 462 in West Hempfield Township on Thursday morning.
The incident was reported originally as a six-vehicle wreck but it was actually two wrecks, township police Cpl. Douglas Ober said.
Motorist......
2010-10-28 17:49:00
STAFF REPORT
Sobriety checkpoints will be conducted in Lancaster County this weekend.
Sometime between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Sunday, police will set up roadblocks on area highways, checking for impaired drivers.
Roadways are selected based on having a history of a high number of arrests or ......
2010-10-25 20:17:00
STAFF
Downtown traffic was snarled Monday as road crews stripped pavement from some parts of the city and utility crews worked elsewhere.
"It's pretty bad out there," Lancaster city Public Works Director Charlotte Katzenmoyer acknowledged, but, she said, motorists only need to hang on for a few......
2010-10-24 19:11:00
JANET KELLEY
Three young Lancaster County men were killed in separate traffic accidents over the weekend.
One man died while riding his motorcycle, police said, while another died from injuries he sustained when the horse he was riding collided with a vehicle.
A third young man died when the c......
2010-10-22 21:24:00
STAFF REPORT
The bridge that carries Elizabethtown Road over Little Chiques Creek at the Mount Joy/Rapho Township line in northern Lancaster County was reopened to traffic Friday afternoon.
The state Transportation Department had started work in May on the bridge, which had been closed nearly five mon......
2010-10-15 22:01:00
STAFF REPORT
Work will begin Monday in preparation for the resurfacing of Route 441, known as River Road, in and around Marietta.
Workers from Pennsy Supply Inc. of Hummelstown will trim trees, repair a pipe beneath Route 441 near Chickies Hill, repair shoulder and drainage areas and, if weather permi......
2010-09-24 21:30:00
JANE HOLAHAN
In about three weeks, the paving season will be over.
It's a regulation from the state Department of Transportation that no paving projects be done between Oct. 15 and April 1 because of winter weather concerns.
So you're thinking work crews will be out in force on Prince and Quee......
2010-09-21 16:52:00
STAFF REPORT
Workers on Monday night began the resurfacing of Lincoln Highway, between Old Philadelphia Pike and Greenfield Road in East Lampeter Township.
The work will be done overnight, on weeknights from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m., through late October.
Motorists can expect a single lane of traffic ......
2010-09-13 23:13:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Contractors working on behalf of the state Department of Transportation will be laying on the gas as they try to get North Prince Street in Lancaster city stripped of its old asphalt and covered with a fresh layer before the coming cold weather.
Motorists, however, will likely h......
2010-09-08 07:50:00
RYAN ROBINSON and JENNIFER TODD
Police asked motorists to avoid a highly traveled intersection in West Earl Township after a dump truck struck and destroyed a traffic signal early Wednesday. The signal controlling eastbound traffic on Route 322 at the Route 222 northbound offramp near Hahnstown Road remained out of service......
2010-08-25 22:06:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
It's shaped like "a box," John Bingham says of the several-square-mile East Hempfield Township region that includes some of Lancaster County's most-traveled roads.Centerville Road eastward to Rohrerstown Road. And from the bottom up, Columbia Avenue to Marietta Avenue....
2010-08-16 22:26:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Motorists accustomed to bouncing past the ballpark on North Prince Street will have a decidedly smoother ride by the time right field becomes a skating rink this winter.It will be smoother still by the time the Barnstormers again have opening day.Contractors working for the state De......
2010-08-16 17:53:00
STAFF REPORT
Work began Monday on the $2.4 million resurfacing of Route 322 in Elizabeth and Clay townships in the northern part of the county.Martin Limestone Inc., of Ephrata, was awarded the contract by PennDOT to repair and resurface the roadway from just west of Route 501 to the intersection with ......
2010-08-11 21:43:00
BERNARD HARRIS
And now a word from PennDOT to motorists traveling on Route 222: Don't worry, it's not done.Motorists on the state highway might think the repaving project was completed, an alarming thought because the new surface is rattling their cars.Greg Penny, spokesman for the state T......
2010-07-27 22:58:00
STAFF REPORT
The interchange ramps off Route 222 at Route 772 in Brownstown will be closed Wednesday night for construction work.The off-ramp from northbound Route 222 to Route 772 and the northbound on-ramp from Route 772 to northbound Route 222 will be closed. Motorists will be detoured to the next i......
2010-07-26 22:40:00
TOM KNAPP
A new trend in traffic enforcement is giving Lancaster County motorists a nudge to remind them how fast they are driving.Portable radar units — about the size of a laptop computer — are appearing on speed-limit sign poles around the county, replacing in some areas the familiar ......
2010-07-20 22:27:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster maintenance workers used to change the incandescent bulbs in the city's traffic lights every year. In the three years since the city converted all 106 traffic signals to light-emitting diode fixtures, they have not changed a single bulb. And city Public Works Director Char......
2010-07-15 21:00:00
JENNIFER TODD
A crash Thursday afternoon on Route 30 near the Wrights Ferry Bridge snarled traffic in York and Lancaster counties, police said.Hellam Township (York County) police said an eastbound Ford Excursion sport utility vehicle and a camper it was pulling overturned just before the Wrightsville e......
2010-07-14 17:53:00
STAFF REPORT
A tractor trailer truck, driven by Edward G. Owens, 55, of Severn, Md., jackknifed on a rain-slicked Route 30 West at 11:34 a.m. Wednesday.The truck, owned by Houff Transfer Inc., Weyers Cave, Va., was empty when it began to slide across the westbound lanes, striking the median barrier jus......
2010-07-07 22:33:00
BERNARD HARRIS
In recent months, the pedestrian bridge over Harrisburg Avenue has been a bridge to nowhere.Access to the brick walkway that connects parts of the Franklin & Marshall College campus has been blocked on the south side as workers continue construction of a new dormitory.But the br......
2010-07-07 16:52:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster County is trying again to get federal funding for Harrisburg Pike.The county's Transportation Coordinating Committee, a panel with representatives of state, county, local government and other agencies, voted last week to apply for $30.8 million that would be used to connect s......
2010-07-06 22:53:00
BERNARD HARRIS
On Tuesday, Market Street beside Lancaster city's Central Market was closed to traffic with a barricade.The street closure was to be expected. Market Street has been closed on Market days — Tuesday, Friday and Saturday — in recent months as extensive renovations are being d......
2010-07-02 22:50:00
STAFF REPORT
Motorists along Route 30 west of Lancaster ran into some traffic gridlock Friday morning due to a sinkhole on the edge of the highway.Crews shored up the small sinkhole, which was near the Rohrerstown Road (Route 741) exit, but traffic in the eastbound lanes was slowed during the Friday mo......
2010-07-01 17:47:00
STAFF REPORT
The bridge that carries Main Street over Route 222 in West Earl Township was reopened to traffic Wednesday morning.The bridge had been closed since January for a bridge deck replacement project.The work was one of a package of four bridges over Route 222 in northeastern Lancaster Co......
2010-06-25 17:38:00
STAFF REPORT
Beginning Monday, contractors will start replacing a sewer main at Prince and Lemon streets and in the 300 block of North Prince Street in downtown Lancaster city.Travel on the block will be reduced to a single lane through about Wednesday, July 7.Southbound motorists are advised to......
2010-06-23 22:20:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The people that work in the former Eastern Market building see it all the time: cars on Church Street roll past the stop sign as they merge on East King Street. Drivers rarely yield to pedestrians trying to cross the street."It's a dangerous stretch, whether you're driving a c......
2010-06-17 21:33:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Those who drive often over the single-lane Nissley Road bridge know to start slowing down as they get close.The deteriorated single-lane span is at a dog-leg curve over a Swarr Run tributary near Woodridge Drive, Landisville.On Wednesday night, East Hempfield Township officials took......
2010-06-13 23:00:00
P.J. REILLY
A crash involving a motorcycle and a minivan in East Lampeter Township Sunday evening left one person with serious injuries.According to East Lampeter police, the accident occurred on Lincoln Highway East at Reese Avenue shortly before 6 p.m.Police said the motorcycle was traveling ......
2010-06-09 23:39:00
BERNARD HARRIS
It was almost 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and Yvonne Enck was regretting her timing.Usually, the TMB clothing store manager doesn't leave work until after 5. On Wednesday, she got out a little earlier, then spent that time sitting in her car waiting to get out of the Prince Street Parking Gara......
2010-06-09 23:20:00
DIANA MARTIN
Lancaster County commissioners held a meeting with the public Wednesday to discuss the fate of Loop Road Bridge.The bridge, officially known as Pequea No. 11 Bridge, connects Conestoga and Martic townships over Pequea Creek. It is one of nine county bridges recommended to be demolished....
2010-06-06 22:56:00
TOM KNAPP
Vehicles struck a home and a store in the Ephrata area in separate accidents this weekend, police said.Lyudmila Fedyanina, 37, of Ephrata, sustained a minor bump on the head Sunday evening, police said, when her car crossed Route 322 in Ephrata Township and slammed into a house.Ephr......
2010-06-01 21:44:00
RORY HESLIN
Lancaster's Red Rose Run will take place for the 34th time Saturday morning.The event will begin at Lancaster Square with a wheelchair race at 8:25 a.m. A 5-mile run will follow at 8:30 a.m., and a 1-mile walk/run will kick off at 8:35 a.m.A half-mile kid's fun run will be h......
2010-05-25 22:54:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Drivers, idle your engines.Next week, the roadwork season begins in Lancaster city.Through June and July, UGI and PPL will be blocking streets for utility work. City contractors will be replacing sewer and water lines. In August, workers contracted by PennDOT will begin resurfacing ......
2010-05-24 12:11:00
RYAN ROBINSON
An 18-year-old Elizabethtown woman was returning home from visiting a friend when she was killed early Sunday in a fiery two-vehicle crash on a dangerous stretch of road in West Hempfield Township, police said.It was the third fatal accident in five days in Lancaster County.Police a......
2010-05-21 20:41:00
STAFF REPORT
Work will begin Monday on the replacement of the Elizabethtown Road bridge over Little Chiques Creek southwest of Mastersonville.The bridge carries the road between Mount Joy and Rapho townships. The bridge is scheduled to be closed from June 1 to Oct. 20, state Transportation Department o......
2010-05-19 16:35:00
STAFF REPORT
Motorists who drive along a nearly 4-mile stretch of Route 441 from Columbia to Washington Boro during nighttime hours this week are being urged to practice extra caution.The state Transportation Department has announced that shifting traffic patterns and single-lane restrictions, with fla......
2010-05-16 21:30:00
AD CRABLE
A former Manheim Central High School chemistry teacher and award-winning conservationist was killed and his wife critically injured Saturday afternoon when their van overturned on I-180 in Northumberland County, according to published reports.Samuel E. Wenger, 72, of 3 Fairview Drive, Akro......
2010-05-10 21:20:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Dennis Groff sat at a cross street recently trying to pull onto Route 741. He counted 27 trucks passing without a car between them.The truck drivers were doing what locals have been doing for years — and what Groff, the Paradise Township roadmaster, also was trying to do. They were a......
2010-05-04 22:01:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Correction May 5, 2010 — The article below contained incorrect information about proposed changes to Lancaster city's parking ordinance. The $25 fine for parking in a permit area without a permit is not increasing. The fine for providing fal......
2010-04-26 21:17:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster County transportation officials painted a gloomy picture on Monday.The county will suffer from the federal Department of Transportation decision earlier this month to deny Pennsylvania's bid to put toll booths on Interstate 80 in the northwestern part of the state.Majo......
2010-04-05 22:05:00
CINDY STAUFFER
People told Jacy Good when she was a student at Muhlenberg College that she was going to save the world.Active in environmental issues, a campus tutor and all-around dynamo, she was poised to take a job with Habitat for Humanity in Brooklyn after her 2008 graduation.That changed in ......
2010-04-05 10:19:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A county man was killed and a county woman injured in a two-vehicle crash Monday morning in West Hempfield Township, police said.A northbound vehicle struck a southbound vehicle at 5:55 a.m. along Route 441, just north of Old Chickies Hill Road, township police said.The man driving ......
2010-03-18 00:03:00
P.J. REILLY
Correction March 18, 2010 — The article below about Lancaster County bridges that might be removed incorrectly stated the creek spanned by Cloverleaf Road bridge on the Rapho/Mount Joy township line. It spans Little Chiques Creek. ...
2010-03-16 21:13:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Flowers are up. Trees are budding. And, on Tuesday, the orange traffic cones have appeared on Route 222.The road construction season began shortly after the end of morning rush hour on the limited-access roadway in the northeastern part of Lancaster County.Motorists can expect singl......
2010-03-10 00:03:00
CINDY STAUFFER
It's very rare.But the unusual tragedy happened last week in Pennsylvania, just about 40 miles from here.A spark from static electricity at a gasoline pump ignited a fire that killed a 19-year-old Cumberland County man who was an aspiring police officer and avid bowler.Ex......
2010-03-10 00:02:00
AD CRABLE
You can almost hear the collective groans of tens of thousands of motorists who drive Route 222 in northern Lancaster County.Come Monday, single-lane restrictions will resume on the heavily traveled highway after a winter-season break. The lane restrictions are expected to occur intermitte......
2010-03-07 22:37:00
STAFF
Summaries of local news stories from the pages of the Intelligencer Journal and Lancaster New Era appear in this space each Monday. They are researched and compiled by staff member Tim Buckwalter. Full versions are available on microfilm at the Lancaster County Library, 125 N. Duke St....
2010-03-07 00:12:00
PAULA WOLF
If Jenny Engle wants to go anywhere, she has to drive Columbia Avenue. Engle lives several blocks from the notoriously busy road, and Columbia Avenue is the only main thoroughfare she can access from her neighborhood. So when she learned that PennDOT was to begin a major project there t......
2010-03-06 00:03:00
BRIAN WALLACE
A heavily traveled stretch of Columbia Avenue is likely to get even more congested beginning next week, when a major road improvement project gets under way.And the potential for traffic backups will continue through late summer.Workers Monday will begin the $2.25 million project to......
2010-03-04 00:01:00
JEFF HAWKES
South Golden Road is the Lincoln Highway East of Golden, Colo., a small city west of Denver.Along a mile-long stretch of the four-lane highway, you'll find a McDonald's, Sonic and KFC. There's also a Goodyear's, Walgreens, Goodwill and other retailers and eateries. There......
2010-03-03 06:33:00
LYNN COMMERO
Strasburg Township officials are hoping a preliminary plan that calls for much-needed improvements to Route 896 will become reality in the near future but are concerned money for the project may be spent elsewhere.The results of the Route 896 Corridor Study were discussed at the Feb. 15 su......
2010-03-01 09:15:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
It could be the largest traffic study ever done in East Hempfield Township.And that's saying something in a suburb where "it seems like traffic is our middle name," as one resident has said.The new study of 27 intersections — 20 of them with traffic signals — has gotten ......
2010-02-22 05:30:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Do you remember last summer? The sitting and waiting in downtown traffic? The honking from the backed-up vehicles?Lancaster won't be quite as bad this year, officials promised last week, even though the road and sidewalk work will resume."It's not going to be nearly as ......
2010-02-19 06:35:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Every Sunday in the summer, people walk to Long's Park for concerts in the amphitheater.Often they are hauling lawn chairs, coolers or kids, yet there is really nowhere for them to walk along Harrisburg Avenue. Lancaster city's sidewalks end at Dillerville Road.Two years ago......
2010-02-18 06:07:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Oklahoma and Michigan will get new bridges. New Orleans will get an expansion of its famed streetcar system, and Honolulu is getting money to rebuild a harbor pier.But Lancaster County will get no money for its improvement plans for Harrisburg Pike.County officials were among nearly......
2010-02-16 00:03:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Rockvale Road could get a new traffic signal, a new bridge could be constructed over Pequea Creek and Route 896 could be widened under preliminary plans approved last week.The Route 896 Corridor Study was recommended for adoption by a vote of the county's Transportation Technical Advis......
2010-02-09 00:02:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Even if there wasn't a new park being built there, the intersection of Weaver and Petersburg roads could use a new traffic signal, Manheim Township officials say.And that's what the crossroads between East Petersburg and Neffsville will be getting in coming months, thanks to a vote......
2010-02-06 00:02:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Drivers who want to check out traffic at two major, local intersections before they leave home can now do so.The state Department of Transportation has announced that new traffic cameras — Lancaster County's first — have been installed at Routes 30 and 283 and at Routes 30 ......
2010-02-04 00:03:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
East Hempfield's Scott Russell sees "no negatives with at least going forward … it shows residents you're at least willing to try" some things to solve traffic.And township officials "know there are traffic issues in the township," planning and developmen......
2010-01-29 00:02:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Technically, much of the discussion was about a new bank being planned for Centerville Road.The bigger issue, however, is the constant stream of traffic on the heavily traveled road through their township, East Hempfield officials said Wednesday.The township has acquired much of the......
2010-01-26 23:31:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The 200 block of North Queen Street was reopened late Tuesday night after being closed for several hours because workers drilling under the street hit a power line.According to Lancaster city police, workers drilling under Queen Street for a new parking garage at the corner of Chestnut and......
2010-01-25 00:01:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A motorist was killed late Saturday when his pickup truck crashed into a utility pole in West Hempfield Township, police said.Police did not release the driver's name Sunday night pending notification of the victim's family.According to township police Sgt. Jeffery Mullin, t......
2010-01-22 00:04:00
TOM KNAPP
Route 30 is a mess.Sure, it will get you where you're going — eventually — and there are a lot of places to stop and shop. But officials wonder if it isn't time to give that 2½-mile corridor from Oakview Road to Route 896 some cohesion."It lacks a sen......
2010-01-22 00:03:00
TOM KNAPP
Picture a well-groomed strip of green running down the middle of Lincoln Highway and a roundabout sending motorists in large lazy circles through a major intersection.That's part of "Lancaster County's Main Street" as envisioned by planners hoping to enhance the Route 30 ......
2010-01-20 00:05:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Matt Kim sees it every Saturday.His customers drive slowly past his dry cleaning shop at West Orange and North Prince streets, looking for parking spaces. They drive around the block. Then they shake their heads and drive away."I lost a lot of customers. I don't see them an......
2009-12-31 06:29:00
STAFF REPORT
New Year's Eve begins at 6 p.m. for motorists traveling in downtown Lancaster.That's when the 100 block of North Queen Street, between Lancaster Square and Binns Park, will be closed to traffic as Countdown Lancaster events begin.Countdown Lancaster offers family oriented en......
2009-12-14 13:47:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Repairs to a broken sewer line may affect traffic on New Holland Pike for the next few days.The break occurred at about 10:30 p.m. Friday at Route 23 and Eden Road.A contractor is repairing the problem in the 14-inch line, which goes under Route 23, for the Lancaster Area Sewer......
2009-12-14 05:02:00
JENNIFER TODD
A young woman and an elderly man were killed in separate traffic accidents Sunday morning in East Cocalico Township.Township police said Summer D. Stewart, 19, of Denver, died when her 1993 Nissan Sentra struck another vehicle head-on shortly before 4 a.m. on Route 222.Stewart was d......
2009-12-13 00:14:00
STAFF
Multiple vehicles crashed along the eastbound lanes of Route 283, at the Route 772 intersection in Rapho Township, around 7 p.m. Saturday. A white sedan rolled over on the eastbound exit ramp to Route 772 and came to rest between the ramp and Route 283. Vehicles ran off the highway and debris lit......
2009-12-09 06:39:00
KIMBERLY MARSELAS
Concerned that the developer who built their neighborhood wants to make way for a convenience store at the community's edge, dozens of Ephrata Township residents recently asked the board of supervisors to deny a rezoning request along Route 322.About 40 residents of the Lincoln's M......
2009-11-30 00:02:00
P.J. REILLY
Six people were reportedly injured in a two-vehicle accident in Providence Township Sunday evening.The accident occurred at 5:11 p.m. on southbound Route 272 at Pennsy Road.According to police, Sharon Usner, 48, of Pequea, was driving a 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass east on Pennsy Road an......
2009-11-26 00:01:00
JANET KELLEY
An Elizabethtown woman was struck by a van Wednesday morning after she and her husband stopped to help a disabled motorist in Lebanon County, police said.Irene Geib, 44, of 349 Radio Road, was taken to Hershey Medical Center, where she was listed in fair condition Wednesday evening, accord......
