2009-07-03 00:12:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
It's a project that will "eliminate some congestion and make it easier to make left-hand turns on that road."And the plans, to add a middle turning lane to heavily traveled Manheim Pike in the suburbs north of Lancaster, took a step toward reality this week.Supervisors......
2009-06-30 20:30:00
JAMES BUESCHER
It's a part of the "green revolution" that local governments are only starting to look at now: with urban areas being well-served by train, bus and public transportation options, what about rural areas where depending on the family car is a daily necessity?"In Lancaster ......
2009-06-30 00:17:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Traffic issues tied to Maibach LLC's proposed agri-energy center in Rapho Township were the key topics discussed at the continuation of a hearing Monday.Questions about fire department access were raised by an attorney at the hearing, which was attended by about 30 people. The biofuels......
2009-06-30 00:06:00
TOM MURSE
Forget midnight.In fact, some Harrisburg insiders say, forget July.The disparate factions warring over next year's state budget are still miles apart, which means reaching an accord before the constitutional July 1 deadline — or even over the next several weeks — is ......
2009-06-27 00:46:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
It's been talked about and anticipated for more than 10 years, and now the time for talk and anticipation is over.On Monday, ground will be broken for the long-awaited $8.5 million makeover of the aging Lancaster train station.Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray will take part in turning ......
2009-06-13 00:21:00
DIANA MARTIN
When Laurie Salimbeni attended her first Relay for Life four years ago, it held a special meaning for her.She had been diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer only a week earlier.At the time she was nervous, unsure about how her own encounter with cancer would turn out.But thi......
2009-06-11 11:12:00
BERNARD HARRIS
With unexpected savings of federal stimulus dollars, state transportation officials aren't planning to keep the change. Instead, a 10-mile stretch of Route 30, between Route 896 and Route 897, may be getting a fresh layer of pavement. The resurfacing project had not been on the list of fiv......
2009-06-10 01:04:00
LORI VAN INGEN
Four bridges in Lancaster County will reap the benefit of the federal economic stimulus funding.The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Engineering District 8 awarded a $1.9 million contract to Buckley & Co. Inc. of Philadelphia to repair 11 bridges in southcentral Pennsylvania, ......
2009-06-09 20:12:00
P.J. REILLY
Correction — The story below, posted on LancasterOnline Tuesday, incorrectly stated the location of the tunnels on Route 272. They are in Providence Township.•••Pequea Townshi......
2009-06-05 01:44:00
JENNIFER TODD
It's been a bumpy journey for city motorists the last few weeks, but smoother sailing is expected next week.Crews next week are scheduled to pave the first block of South Queen Street and the first blocks of East and West Vine streets as a months-long street reconstruction project near......
2009-06-02 00:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
The Rendell administration announced Monday that Smoketown Airport is among 16 public-use airports that will receive a total of nearly $3 million for safety improvements and maintenance.Smoketown Airport will receive $210,000. The airport, located in East Lampeter Township, will use the fu......
2009-06-01 11:30:00
AD CRABLE
If you want to snap a photo of two of the largest objects ever to move across the Lancaster County landscape later this summer, don't worry, they will be creeping by at a tortoise-like 2 or 3 miles per hour. Two steam generators, each weighing about the same as two locomotives, will be p......
2009-05-27 18:49:00
P.J. REILLY
Correction — An article posted on LancasterOnline Wednesday incorrectly stated who is operating the nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island. The plant is operated by Exelon Nuclear.•••...
2009-05-19 00:54:00
JENNIFER TODD
A $19 million transportation project that includes replacement of the Lititz Pike bridge and significant redesign of traffic patterns in the city's northeast is still on track to begin in 2012, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation officials said Monday.Environmental studies are be......
2009-05-18 23:02:00
CINDY HUMMEL
Neighbors of a proposed 88-unit development along Rockvale Road expressed concerns about the project last week during a conditional-use hearing in West Lampeter Township.The owners of 19 existing homes along Rockvale Road would be forced to hook up to public sewer if the ages-55-and-older ......
2009-05-08 00:17:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Replacement of the Route 324 bridge over Pequea Creek got a financial boost Thursday from the federal government.The $4.3 million project to replace the 97-year-old bridge connecting Conestoga and Martic townships will receive $1,477,436 in economic stimulus money from the American Recover......
2009-05-07 01:19:00
JENNIFER TODD
City planners Wednesday said improvements to the Lititz Pike and Marshall Avenue intersection do not have to be completed as part of the development of the former Lancaster Stockyards site.Developers originally planned to install a 100-foot right-turn lane on Marshall Avenue for traffic tu......
2009-05-01 01:01:00
JAMES BUESCHER
During the Great Depression, the construction of Veterans Memorial Bridge in Columbia helped bring western Lancaster County back from the brink of economic collapse.Now, during the biggest economic downturn since the 1930s, the same bridge's renovation — using state and federal s......
2009-04-17 00:01:00
Earlier this week, the Obama administration announced funding to widen and improve I-94 in Michigan.What made the announcement special was that it marked the 2,000th transportation project to be approved under the $48.1 billion transportation stimulus plan. What makes it unique is that it ......
2009-04-14 22:56:00
JAMES BUESCHER
It's a western Lancaster County icon and one of a dwindling number of examples of the art deco movement of the 1930s — and the Veterans Memorial Bridge linking Columbia with Wrightsville may soon be getting an overhaul.On April 30, the Lancaster-York Heritage Region nonprofit org......
2009-04-04 01:24:00
LORI VAN INGEN
A third person has died as a result of a two-vehicle crash that killed two teenage brothers in Leacock Township on Sunday night.Stephen K. Beiler Jr., 19, of 419 Belmont Road, Ronks, was flown after the crash to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He died at the hospit......
2009-04-04 00:56:00
MICHAEL YODER
The Elizabethtown Amtrak station is a shell of its once proud past — peeling paint on the walls, broken and boarded-up windows, an empty ticket office and plastic covering the waiting platform.But federal money flowing into the state is allowing a $9.3 million renovation project to m......
2009-04-03 10:29:00
RYAN ROBINSON
State police said alcohol was not involved in a two-vehicle crash Sunday night that killed two teenage brothers and injured five other young people in eastern Lancaster County. And a state Department of Transportation official said the condition of the road at 4138 Old Philadelphia Pike (Route ......
2009-04-01 01:01:00
JENNIFER TODD
A new day, a new detour.Beginning at 6 this morning, the first block of South Queen Street, between Vine and King streets, will be closed temporarily as crews begin reconstruction of the roadway.The work is expected to take two to three weeks and will involve taking the road down to......
2009-03-18 19:35:00
P.J. REILLY
Correction — A graphic posted on LancasterOnline Wednesday incorrectly plotted the route expected to be used to haul two steam generators from Maryland to Three Mile Island. The generators will not be taken through Port Deposit on Route 222.......
2009-03-18 00:01:00
We have to admit that, while not entirely painless, obtaining or renewing a driver's license in Pennsylvania has become a relatively simple procedure.But the process could be made even easier — and more secure — if Pennsylvania adopted a procedure now spreading among other ......
2009-03-18 00:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
A trio of Lancaster County business women have been named to Gov. Ed Rendell's list of the best 50 women in business in Pennsylvania.They include:• Jennifer K. Engle of jke Marketing & Communications in Lancaster.• Bobbi Har......
2009-03-17 00:35:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Nearly $90 million in federal and state funds will flow into Lancaster County this year and in 2010 for road and bridge improvements, state officials announced Monday.Route 222, a major north-south artery through the heart of the county, will receive the most attention as bridge work and l......
2009-03-14 01:12:00
STAFF REPORT
Road repair projects on Route 896 in Smoketown and Route 72 in Manheim will start next week, the state Department of Transportation announced Friday.Motorists are warned to watch for delays in work areas with temporary traffic signals, single lanes of traffic or detours.On Monday, c......
2009-03-10 00:57:00
TOM KNAPP
The economic downturn has brought unexpected benefits to Elizabethtown Borough.An ambitious improvement project that would create a second downtown around the borough's deteriorating train station is in line for an $8 million boost from Washington, D.C.The federal plan to stimul......
2009-03-06 18:19:00
MEGAN HARRIS, 17, Freestyle
Despite its notorious reputation among adults, the department of motor vehicles is one of the most anticipated destinations to which a teenager may travel. On any given day, teenagers make their long-awaited entrance through the doors at a state Department of Transportation Driver License Center ......
2009-03-01 00:21:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The Fruitville Pike flap may have claimed its first political victim. J. Michael Flanagan, a Manheim Township commissioner who is running for re-election this year, was not endorsed by the township Republican Party. Sources say his vote for a controversial shopping center proposal that could......
2009-02-24 10:15:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray wishes he could put up signs on Prince and Queen streets, saying: "maintained by the commonwealth." Gray said he gets frequent complaints about the bumpy streets, but there is nothing he can do about them. Those and other major city streets are controlled by the Pennsy......
2009-02-20 00:40:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
The manager of Manheim Borough and administrator for Manheim Borough Authority has resigned.Bill Kelso's resignation was for personal reasons and made effective Feb. 11, Bonnie Martin, borough council president, said Thursday.Kelso served as borough manager/authority administrat......
2009-02-13 00:29:00
JENNIFER TODD
A storm system that spawned a deadly tornado in Oklahoma earlier this week brought severe winds to the Lancaster area Thursday, downing tree limbs and power lines and leaving more than 2,000 PPL customers without service.Gusts of about 50 mph, with sustained winds of 30 to 40 mph, were rec......
2009-02-10 10:54:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Smoother roads, electronic message boards and perhaps a train station — that's what Lancaster County could get from the transportation portion of a federal economic stimulus package. And, by transportation project standards, county travelers would get those upgrades quickly. The coun......
2009-02-08 00:16:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
Nancy Santaniello and Monica Forte recall the moment of revelation. For months, they had led the charge against a proposed shopping center in Manheim Township's Granite Run Corporate Center. Both live along Fruitville Pike and oppose plans to widen the road to accommodate additional traf......
2009-02-06 00:21:00
TOM KNAPP
An embattled proposal to build a church in East Hempfield Township received preliminary approval Wednesday, but not without conditions imposed by township supervisors — and not before an attorney for the church threatened a federal lawsuit.The supervisors were considering a prelimina......
2009-02-05 00:19:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The freak snowstorm that dropped anywhere from zero to 12 inches of snow on Lancaster County on Tuesday night is one of the area's top weather events.That honor was bestowed by Millersville University meteorologist Eric Horst, who said it belongs on the list "because it is such a ......
2009-02-04 00:45:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
It was the wintertime equivalent of a summer downpour.What could be called a snow thunderstorm, minus the thunder, dumped more than 4 inches of snow by 11 p.m. on parts of Lancaster County Tuesday, but other parts did not see a single flake. ...
2009-02-04 00:25:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A PennDOT truck inadvertently dropped massive piles of salt onto a high-traffic Lancaster County road Monday night, causing one wreck and other near crashes.The truck leaked the salt loads while treating a 5-mile stretch of Route 23 (Marietta Pike) in West Hempfield Township, police said....
2009-01-29 00:39:00
TOM KNAPP
Wednesday's triple threat — snow, sleet and slush — could make for hazardous conditions this morning as motorists traverse frozen roadways."We're getting calls for refreezing now," PennDOT spokesman Rick Ferguson said late Wednesday.Cinder trucks were o......
2009-01-25 00:17:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
The economic stimulus legislation now wending its way through Congress could bring more than $54 million to Lancaster County for local transportation projects. The draft stimulus bill released by the House Appropriations Committee earlier this month proposed $30 billion in highway and bridge sp......
2009-01-25 00:08:00
JON RUTTER
Meteorology collided with history Monday afternoon and made a mess. That was the day several inches of snow took the county by surprise. Monday was also Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal and state holiday honoring the famed civil rights leader of the 1960s. As a result of that ......
2009-01-24 00:43:00
MICHAEL YODER
As President Barack Obama and members of Congress hash out the details of an economic stimulus package that could cost as much as $825 billion, at least one state agency already has created its wish list.The state Department of Transportation has unveiled a catalog of hundreds of road and ......
2009-01-18 00:16:00
JON RUTTER
Marilyn Stein teaches alcohol highway safety classes that don't always go down smoothly. The information she presents often isn't what people expect. The moment you sip your first spirits, she told her students in the county's Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program last week, your ......
2009-01-16 09:51:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The electronic sign on Oregon Pike has a simple, clear message: "Slow Down, Save a Life." The temporary sign appeared this week in the 2600 block of Oregon Pike. It is on the stretch of road where eight people have died in the past four years, including a three-car crash last mon......
2009-01-10 00:40:00
CARLA DI FONZO
There's a good chance you'll decide to stay indoors today because of the chance of snow.But, after all, it is January."It's perfectly in tune with the season," Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather.com meteorologist, said Friday of the expected weekend snowfall, "es......
2009-01-07 00:34:00
JENNIFER TODD
To sum up this morning's predicted driving conditions in one word — dicey.Freezing rain moved into the area Tuesday evening and was expected to continue overnight, leaving some roads slick as motorists head out for the morning commute.As much as a quarter-inch of ice could......
2009-01-03 00:01:00
STAFF REPORT
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission officials remind travelers that most Turnpike tolls will increase 25 percent effective at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.With the new tolls, the most-common cash rate for passenger vehicles will increase from 75 cents to 95 cents, while the most common cash rate for com......
2008-12-28 00:18:00
JON RUTTER
Where do drunken-driving accidents happen most often in Lancaster County? And why? DUI enforcers say those questions, like the drivers, are loaded. And the answers are many. "Speed is the number one cause of crashes" of all kinds, said Ross Deck, who coordinates DUI sobri......
2008-12-21 00:18:00
JON RUTTER
Alcohol was the theme of the "party" Wednesday at the Willow Valley Resort and Conference Center. But nobody was drinking and driving home afterward. That's exactly what the 250 people who attended the 19th DUI Awareness Conference fight all year to ensure. Dec. 17 was t......
2008-12-20 00:30:00
BRIAN WALLACE
A 23-year PennDOT veteran has been named the agency's manager of maintenance operations for Lancaster County.Scott Tanguy (pronounced "tang-way") will oversee a department with a $9.4 million budget and 157 employees responsible for maintaining and repairing 1,052 miles of ro......
2008-12-18 00:35:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The aging bridge that carries Marietta Avenue over the Amtrak rail line in Mount Joy will be replaced with a lookalike next year.The steel truss bridge that has spanned the rail line since 1896 will give way to a similar steel bridge that planners say will meld with the historic district t......
2008-12-17 01:41:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
If Tuesday made you dream of a white Christmas, your wish may come true.As was evident this week, when temperatures went from 63 degrees on Monday to snow and sleet on Tuesday, Lancaster County is in a "stormy pattern."That's how Millersville meteorologist Eric Horst d......
2008-12-15 00:39:00
During the 1930s, Route 30 acquired the moniker of "Death Highway." Newspaper headlines frequently referred to it in that manner due to the many fatal accidents that occurred there.That phrase may soon describe a section of Oregon Pike. Over the past four years, eight people have......
2008-12-15 00:06:00
TOM KNAPP
A controversial church plan received a preliminary blessing Wednesday from East Hempfield Township officials — but also a warning that final approval will require more work.The township planning commission voted 5-1 to recommend approval of a preliminary plan submitted by the Church ......
2008-12-14 00:21:00
JON RUTTER
"Do you want a brother or a sister or a pass to the pool?" Tow-headed 7-year-old Kristine Nicole Trimble told her mother that she'd rather have the pass. "Unfortunately," said the mom, Allison Graham, "she only got to use it a few weeks." That was ......
2008-12-14 00:16:00
JON RUTTER
A Lancaster man who caused a fatal DUI collision 15 years ago says the event transformed his life and set him on "a different road." Curtis L. Sellard said the memory of June 26, 1993, remains vivid for him. On that hot summer Saturday, Sellard, then 29, climbed into his car afte......
2008-12-10 00:43:00
P.J. REILLY
Lancaster County commissioners on Tuesday helped quicken the step of two local trail projects.At their weekly work session Tuesday morning, the commissioners voted to put Manor Township officials in charge of a $1 million state grant to develop a rail-trail along the Susquehanna River.......
2008-12-10 00:32:00
DAVE PIDGEON
An arsonist apparently set a large Martic Township barn ablaze early Tuesday morning, investigators said.It's not clear how the fire was set. A message left with Carl Strickler Jr., chief of Rawlinsville Fire Company, was not returned Tuesday night.The fire broke out at 3 a.m. a......
2008-12-07 00:21:00
JON RUTTER
When it comes to retorts from drunk drivers, 33-year-old police Officer Colleen Tatara has heard it all. "I only had one drink." "I didn't hurt anybody." "You're going to ruin my life if you arrest me." "Don't you have anything bette......
2008-12-05 01:36:00
PATRICK BURNS
Jay O'Hara's job as a home remodeling salesman regularly takes him on trips from his Ephrata home to Philadelphia, Delaware, the Pocono Mountains and many places in between. He'll often travel 200 miles in a day.The recent drop in gas prices has been a lifesaver, he said, but t......
2008-12-04 01:02:00
TOM KNAPP
One woman called the proposed church "a monstrosity."About a dozen East Hempfield Township residents united Wednesday to ask township supervisors to appeal a decision by the zoning board allowing construction of a church — planned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day......
2008-12-02 11:38:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The price of the salt that is spread on roads to melt ice is soaring, but local availability is not threatened. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and several townships here say they are paying 30 to 40 percent more for salt this year, but are dodging the more drastic spikes some are......
2008-11-30 00:20:00
JON RUTTER
The young man in the dark suit was quietly crying. He'd kicked a heroin habit years before with the help of Teen Challenge. But this past spring he'd made a dumb choice. He'd had too much to drink while partying at a restaurant in a bordering county. And then, he admitted in......
2008-11-30 00:15:00
JON RUTTER
ARD, the county's Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program, is a desirable alternative to conviction for driving drunk. It's also a potential option for people arrested for shoplifting, welfare fraud and other first-time, nonviolent crimes. Last Monday, a four-member ARD pane......
2008-11-25 01:41:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Manheim Township residents tried one last time Monday to persuade their township commissioners to reject a shopping center proposal that calls for taking some homeowners' land in order to widen the busy Fruitville Pike.A near-capacity crowd jammed into the township building. The loud g......
2008-11-23 00:21:00
JON RUTTER
One guy got arrested for DUI after a crash around 10:30 in the morning. Then, just over five hours later, he went out, got involved in another accident and got picked up again. Or take the case of the woman who was cited for DUI after her car bogged down in the mud. Police say she grew com......
2008-11-21 10:53:00
RYAN ROBINSON
I'm dreaming of — a white Thanksgiving? The first measurable snow of the season — a half inch to an inch across most of the county — struck this morning, a month before the official start of winter. Motorists encountered some slick roads and bridges on their way to......
2008-11-21 09:45:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Ephrata Township planners Tuesday night may recommend approval for 176 homes, as well as a controversial plan to build 84 apartments. Developer Gerry Horst wants to build 176 homes on 81 acres near State Street and Mohler's Church Road, a former industrial zone known as the Nolt tract....
2008-11-19 11:05:00
RYAN ROBINSON
The state has taken some action to improve a Paradise Township intersection with one of the highest crash rates in the state. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has erected two new signs along Route 741, east and west of the intersection of Strasburg Road (Route 741) and South Belmon......
2008-11-16 00:21:00
JON RUTTER
Ross Deck and his crew are out night fishing for drunk drivers. Lines of Day-Glo orange cones mark their Halloween night checkpoint in the 2200 block of New Danville Pike. Police flashlight beams pierce window glass, probing the darkened interiors of cars for telltale signs of drinking, as......
2008-11-11 00:44:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Capt. Ed Davis' legacy as a Vietnam War POW and local activist extends far beyond macadam and bricks, but his name will forever be linked to a much-used bridge in western Lancaster city.Local dignitaries and family members on a blustery Monday morning dedicated a green-and-white sign t......
2008-10-04 00:58:00
STAFF REPORT
A portion of Peters Road in Upper Leacock and Earl townships will be closed to through traffic for three days, beginning Tuesday.The road closing, at the railroad crossing south of Route 23 near Groffdale, will continue through Thursday.During that time, Norfolk Southern Railway Co.......
2008-09-23 10:12:00
RYAN ROBINSON and JOE HAINTHALER
A dangerous and bumpy railroad crossing about a mile west of New Holland is set to be improved in the spring. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is working with Norfolk Southern to install lights and gates at the railroad crossing on Peters Road, just off Route 23 in the Groffdale ar......
2008-09-23 01:06:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Fruitville Pike will be widened, officials say, whether a planned shopping center at Granite Run is built or not and whether residents living along the busy roadway like it or not. And many don't. About a half-dozen people who live along Fruitville Pike between Delp and Granite Run roads a......
2008-09-23 01:02:00
STAFF and WIRE REPORTS
A shortage of road salt and skyrocketing salt prices could mean slippery roads this winter in communities across the nation as officials struggle to keep pavements clear of snow and ice without breaking their budgets. Nationwide, prices have tripled since a year ago. The salt industry says the ......
2008-09-12 02:17:00
TOM KNAPP
Work on a new Strasburg bypass is about two months and some paperwork away."We've been working on this for a very long time," borough Mayor Bruce Ryder said Thursday. "We are very much looking forward to having it done."Greg Penny, a spokesman for the state D......
2008-09-11 12:08:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A 273-foot-long bridge that had carried southwestern Lancaster County traffic over the Pequea Creek since 1912 was removed Wednesday afternoon. A contractor for PennDOT used a large crane to lift and move a 142-foot main section of the one-lane bridge — which stretched between Conestoga a......
2008-09-08 10:53:00
JOHN M. HOOBER III
Two Lancaster men took immediate action when they saw flames coming through a bathroom wall of a Poplar Street home on Sunday night. Tony Burnside and Andy Irizarry grabbed a fire extinguisher from Burnside's nearby West Strawberry Street home and raced back to 410 Poplar St. to battle t......
2008-09-04 11:20:00
RYAN ROBINSON
There's a problem in Paradise. A rural intersection in the township has one of the highest crash rates in the state. Eighteen wrecks occurred at the intersection of Strasburg Road (Route 741) and South Belmont Road from 2003 through 2007, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Tra......
2008-08-26 22:16:00
STAFF REPORT
The bridge that carries Route 324 over the Pequea Creek between Conestoga and Martic townships will be closed to all traffic starting Sept. 2.A signed detour will direct motorists around the bridge closure by way of Bridge Valley and River roads. Nearly a thousand vehicles cross over this ......
2008-08-21 10:59:00
TIM MEKEEL
After carrying boaters, fishermen, hikers and residents for 96 years, Pequea's landmark steel bridge soon will be removed and replaced. PennDOT will close the one-lane bridge on Sept. 2 to start the process of constructing a new two-lane bridge there. The new bridge, to cost $4.4 million, ......
2008-08-06 20:02:00
CLAUDIA W. ESBENSHADE
Drivers these days are sharing the road with more alternative vehicles. It's important for everyone to know the rules of the road for their own safety and that of others.And with scooter accidents making headlines this summer, it's even more important for everyone to be aware of re......
2008-08-01 00:53:00
MICHAEL YODER
One year ago today, 13 people lost their lives when the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed during rush hour.In an instant, public attention was focused on the United States' infrastructure deficiencies and the dangers they pose.Since the tragedy, transportation departments ac......
2008-07-31 11:00:00
DAN RORABAUGH
Nearly 18 months ago, Debbie Loper was returning from lunch to her Quarryville home when she lost control of her car, veered off the road and struck a tree, killing her on impact. Her husband Bob Loper, a maintenance worker at Millersville University, set up a memorial cross and flower arrangem......
2008-07-31 01:19:00
P.J. REILLY
The covered bridge that carries Log Cabin Road over Cocalico Creek at the West Earl/Warwick township line is expected to be closed for about a year to undergo restoration.On Wednesday, Lancaster County commissioners awarded a contract for a maximum of $62,300 to Rettew Associates to design......
2008-07-29 01:20:00
P.J. REILLY and JOHN WALK
Twenty-three miles of the abandoned Enola Low-Grade Line in southern Lancaster County today are under municipal ownership.At a gathering in Norfolk Southern's Harrisburg office Monday, railroad company officials signed over deeds to the 850-acre property to Bart, Conestoga, Eden, Marti......
2008-07-28 00:04:00
CARLA DI FONZO
If any peregrine falcons or eagles are still nesting around Norman Wood Bridge over the Susquehanna River, local birder Tom Raub said they're staying out view.Of course, he said, because it's too late in the season for nesting, it's even more likely the birds have simply flown ......
2008-07-26 01:10:00
STAFF
Construction crews anticipate putting long-term work-zone signs and marking stations in place this week in preparation for shoulder and roadway base repair starting Wednesday on a 1¼-mile stretch of Route 72 from the Pennsylvania Turnpike entrance ramp in Rapho Township to Route 322 in Cornwa......
2008-07-19 01:05:00
STAFF
Work began last week on a $5.8 million project to repair and repaint the Route 372 bridge over the Susquehanna River. Motorists are advised they will encounter single-lane traffic restrictions seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., with flaggers alternating both directions of traffic and a......
2008-07-15 01:54:00
PATRICK BURNS
Lancaster Airport Authority agreed Monday to donate about 1.6 acres for a $995,000 project that will improve Lititz Pike just south of Millport Road.The intermunicipal project spearheaded by the Lancaster County Transportation Authority will raise and widen the southbound lane of Lititz Pi......
2008-07-09 09:58:00
JANET KELLEY
The state Superior Court has upheld a $2 million judgment a jury awarded the widow of a PennDOT worker who was killed in a traffic accident on Route 41 in 2001. The award after the civil trial in June 2006 was one of the largest in Lancaster County history. Michael Jablonski, 33, of New Ho......
2008-07-08 00:21:00
JOHN WALK
Nearly 10 months after a $2.86 million redesign of the intersection of routes 272 and 372 in Buck, residents and township officials say the project has been a success."I think it's a lot safer," East Drumore Township resident Frank Seal said. "Overall, I'm very pleas......
2008-07-08 00:17:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Tourism was not a cause of the American Civil War, but it certainly has been an effect.And now, to help promote Pennsylvania's pivotal role in that conflict, which pitted American against American, the state Department of Transportation has placed 73 new signs in six counties promoting......
2008-07-01 00:40:00
TOM KNAPP
CorridorOne, a plan to bring light-rail transit to the Lancaster-Harrisburg line, has jumped the tracks to make way for a more powerful locomotive.John Ward, president of Modern Transit Partnerships, on Monday unveiled a new moniker for the line: the Capital Red Rose Corridor.He als......
2008-06-25 00:03:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Mount Joy's Risser Mill Bridge, burned down by an arsonist six years ago, will be replaced by two bridges — one covered and one modern — according to plans.A hearing on the plans for the modern concrete bridge will be held at 7 p.m. tonight at the Mount Joy Campus of t......
2008-06-18 00:35:00
P.J. REILLY
The Amtrak train station in Elizabethtown has seen a lot of traffic in recent years.With gas prices climbing, it could get busier.Even if use of the station doesn't increase, borough officials recognize it needs a facelift.Its platforms are badly in need of repair, its pa......
2008-06-12 01:29:00
PATRICK BURNS
A 40-year-old woman riding a motor scooter was seriously injured in a crash Wednesday afternoon in West Cocalico Township.East Cocalico Township police said Theresa Miller, 100 Durlach Hill Road, Stevens, fell off her Kymco motor scooter near 700 Swamp Bridge Road in West Cocalico Township......
2008-06-07 02:10:00
P.J. REILLY
Southern Lancaster County motorists might start experiencing some headaches Monday.Construction work on a section of Route 222 in Fulton Township is scheduled to start Monday and last through October.According to the state Department of Transportation, work crews will begin by trimm......
2008-05-28 10:58:00
STAFF
Construction crews have finished repairs on westbound Route 30 between the Prospect Road and Malleable Road overpasses in West Hempfield Township, PennDOT announced in a press release. Today, crews are eradicating traffic lines and painting new lines in the westbound lanes of Route 30 in ant......
2008-05-27 01:10:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
A 14-month construction project to repair and resurface the northernmost section of Route 222 in Lancaster County begins tonight.Stretching from a mile north of the Ephrata/Route 322 exit to the Berks County line, more than 7 miles of the heavily traveled highway will be under repair until......
2008-05-23 01:54:00
P.J. REILLY
The Mount Airy Road bridge over Middle Creek in Clay Township has seen better days, according to township manager Bruce Leisey.With school buses, large trucks and cars rumbling over it every day, the concrete deck is crumbling.In 2006, a survey of bridges across the state listed the......
2008-05-22 01:47:00
P.J. REILLY
The top goal of Lancaster County's Transportation Improvement Plan is clear: fix local bridges.Dave Royer, director of transportation for the county planning commission, said that priority comes straight from Gov. Ed Rendell."We're definitely focusing on our existing in......
2008-05-17 01:17:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Motorists who have been navigating the single-lane restrictions on Route 30 near Prospect Road will have more construction to contend with next week.The Route 30 entrance and exit ramps at the Prospect Road and Route 441 interchanges will be closed for repairs sequentially from Monday to T......
2008-04-29 11:05:00
BERNARD HARRIS
State transportation officials will repair or replace 58 bridges across Lancaster County in the next four years under a proposed plan. The focus on "structurally deficient" bridges comes following the deadly collapse of a bridge in Minneapolis last year. The tragedy gave urgency to a state stud......
2008-04-24 00:36:00
TOM KNAPP
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
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....
2008-04-08 00:05:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A New Holland man who says his identity was stolen is engaged in a legal battle to keep his driver's license and clear his driving record, his attorney said Monday.Steven Fox of Brimmer Avenue hired attorney Mike Winters last month after being informed by his auto insurance group about "di......
2008-04-02 02:26:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
It's time again to draw your attention to recent news items, which are much funnier than anything I can come up with.I see where Armstrong World Industries is eliminating 100 more jobs.I find this story amazing. I didn't think Armstrong, once a major source of employment in Lancaste......
2008-03-31 18:30:00
STAFF REPORTS
Motorists are advised to avoid a 3-mile stretch of Route 897 in northern Lancaster County this week.Starting Tuesday, Route 897, from Route 272 in Swartzville to Ridge Road in East and West Cocalico Township, will be limited to a single lane of traffic, according to a news release issued F......
2008-03-29 00:22:00
PATRICK BURNS
Despite a prolonged advertising campaign warning that seat-belt use is mandatory in Pennsylvania, some people still ignore the law.But not many.West Hempfield Township police officers stopped 613 vehicles at a safety checkpoint Friday afternoon and found that only a dozen failed to ......
2008-03-12 01:20:00
TOM KNAPP
A new route designed to take truck traffic around Columbia Borough instead of through it is taking shape, but officials are still waiting to see if Harrisburg will pony up the funds to pay for it."We're going ahead, with the understanding that the financial issue will work itself ......
2008-03-09 00:20:00
GIL SMART
Spring is just around the corner. Be prepared to stop. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation kicks off its 2008 season Monday with two big projects getting under way. The first, and one of the most expensive projects planned in the county this year, is $11.36 million in improv......
2008-03-08 02:01:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
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......
2008-03-07 10:38:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Pieces of material may be falling from the Lititz Pike bridge, but state transportation officials said motorists traveling over the bridge shouldn't be concerned. It is the trains below that have a problem. A reported 70-foot section of concrete under the bridge, which carries Route 50......
2008-03-06 00:58:00
PATRICK BURNS
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......
2008-03-02 00:18:00
GIL SMART
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......
2008-03-01 01:38:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
A Lancaster County motorist was allegedly menaced late Thursday night by another driver who pointed a gun at him in what police are calling a road-rage incident.The county motorist, who West Hempfield Township police didn't identify for his protection, was confronted by a white man dri......
2008-02-28 01:01:00
P.J. REILLY
Columbia Mayor Leo Lutz says his town has invested 10 years and millions of dollars in an effort to build a bypass and move the truck traffic on Route 441 out of the borough.Though PennDOT has proposed putting the $18 million project on the back burner, Lutz is mounting a campaign to convi......
2008-02-23 01:33:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Friday's winter storm made the outdoors a slippery mess, sending cars and trucks — and many sledders — sliding, and closing schools across Lancaster County.The storm, which by the morning rush hour had dumped 2 to 3 inches of snow and sleet, tapered off by lunchtime but rea......
2008-02-22 11:11:00
ANYA LITVAK
The problem before him is simple, said Joseph G. Brimmeier, the CEO of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die," he told a group of local business people at a Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry breakfast on Thursday. ......
2008-02-22 01:44:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
If you think we've had enough ice and freezing rain for one winter, you're not going to like today's forecast.Two weak low-pressure systems rolling in from the Southwest are expected to dump 1 to 2 inches of snow on Lancaster County by noon, then top things off with a layer of ......
2008-02-19 10:51:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A new Route 30 from Ronks to Gap could be pushed back — way, way back. And a proposed Columbia bypass and reconstruction of the Centerville Road/Route 30 interchange would likely share the same fate under a redrafting of Lancaster County's Transportation Improvement Plan....
2008-02-14 01:43:00
TOM KNAPP
Today is probably going to be sunny.It won't be warm by any stretch of the imagination, but with temperatures easing up to about 40, some of the slush and ice and muck that accumulated on Wednesday will start to melt.Enjoy it while it lasts.Another mess of clouds will cro......
2008-02-13 12:10:00
CINDY STAUFFER and JOHN M. HOOBER III
Water fell from the sky over the past 24 hours in multiple forms: snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain. And it created multiple headaches: downed trees, power outages, icy sidewalks, accidents and closed roads. County residents awoke to hazardous conditions today, due to a steady freezin......
2008-02-13 01:26:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
State Department of Transportation crews were out in full force late Tuesday night and planned to stay out early this morning, plowing and pouring salt on slick Lancaster County roads, officials said.The crews battled a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain that is expected to make traveli......
2008-02-02 12:30:00
ANYA LITVAK
If it seemed like Friday was the wettest day ever, it's because it kind of was. The 1.77 inches of rain that battered the county was a record rainfall for Feb. 1, according to Millersville meteorologist Eric Horst. The previous record, 1.31 inches, was set in 1915. As the rain subsided in ......
2008-02-01 01:27:00
MICHAEL YODER
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......
2008-02-01 01:20:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two construction workers were injured Thursday when a PennDOT truck struck them on a West Hempfield Township bridge, officials said.The workers, whose names weren't released to the media Thursday, were replacing a bridge over Strickler Run at Route 462 when they were struck about 10 a.......
2008-01-31 11:26:00
JANET KELLEY and CHAD UMBLE
Two construction workers reportedly were struck by a PennDOT truck this morning on Columbia Avenue, according to county emergency dispatchers. The two men reportedly were taken by a private vehicle to the hospital, dispatchers said. At the scene, co-workers said that the injuries were n......
2008-01-29 12:08:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A gentle rain this morning caused havoc on the roads. Light rain froze immediately on the cold ground in this morning's 29-degree rush-hour temperatures. The result was scores of fender benders — primarily in the western part of Lancaster County. Reports of accidents began ......
2008-01-24 12:01:00
HOLLY SCOTT
The Leacock Township Board of Supervisors has decided against building a sidewalk along the Route 30 Bridge over Pequea Creek. The bridge, which is next to the Best Western Hotel/Revere Tavern, is maintained by the state. PennDOT plans to replace the bridge at some point, and is working on desi......
2008-01-22 01:29:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Kanst du Deitsch shvetza?If you can't, or if you can and would like to "shvetza Deitsch" a little better, Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society is offering beginner and intermediate language courses in Pennsylvania Dutch.Beginning classes will be offered from 7 to 9 p.m. W......
2008-01-14 12:14:00
TOM MURSE
Come on. Admit it. You heard the weather guy mention snow in his forecast and got all giddy, or maybe a little anxious, didn't you? Uh, huh. You even went so far as to power up that old snowblower collecting dust out there in the garage, right? And now? Well, now you'......
2008-01-07 17:45:00
STAFF REPORT
The Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Vision Impaired has announced that a formal merger with the Somerset County Blind Center has been completed and approved by the Associations' board of directors."The closing of the merger marks the conclusion of months of discussion be......
2008-01-07 12:25:00
AD CRABLE
A pair of rare peregrine falcons that have chosen the Route 30 bridge across the Susquehanna as a base were given an extreme-makeover home this morning in hopes that they can pull off the first successful nesting in Lancaster County in 60 years. A PennDOT "snooper crane" carefully low......
2008-01-07 12:03:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Plans for a "traditional neighborhood development" measure that could pave the way for Independence, the huge new community being eyed for the Landisville area. Continuing plans to improve the adjoining Route 283/State Road interchange, long a snarled, sometimes dangerous, place fo......
2008-01-07 00:27:00
STAFF REPORTS
Repairs to the Route 30 bridge between Lancaster and York counties will restrict travel for much of today.Greg Penny, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, issued an announcement Friday that eastbound travel will be limited to a single lane beginning at 9 a.m. today, weathe......
2008-01-05 02:28:00
LORI VAN INGEN
In the course of a speeding detail on Ironville Pike Thursday, West Hempfield Township police netted a wrecked sports car, but no driver.A police unit nearby — unconnected to the speeding detail — first noticed a red 2000 Pontiac Trans Am traveling north on Prospect Road at 7:2......
2008-01-03 00:33:00
TOM KNAPP
With new plans in hand for renovations to its railroad station and platforms, Elizabethtown Borough needs only two more things.One is a stack of approvals from state and federal agencies that have oversight on the project.The other is about $4 million.Borough manager Pete Whi......
2007-12-23 00:19:00
GIL SMART
In one respect, it seems like much ado over not much. Beginning in early January, Franklin & Marshall College will begin construction of a median strip in the center of Harrisburg Avenue, designed to discourage pedestrians from crossing in the middle of the busy block. The strip will be a m......
2007-12-19 01:37:00
TOM KNAPP
Even as Conoy Township supervisors are hearing arguments on an ethanol plant planned along the Susquehanna River, the township planning commission is gearing up to play its own part in the complicated review process.Supervisors will hold the seventh in a series of conditional-use hearings ......
2007-12-19 01:30:00
MARK SCOLFORO
(AP)Lax security led to the theft of materials used to produce Pennsylvania driver's licenses and identification cards, putting people at risk of fraud and identity theft, the state auditor general said Tuesday.Contractors hired since 2000 to produce licenses and ID cards for the Penns......
2007-12-19 01:22:00
JENNIFER TODD
Lancaster City Council approved a 2008 budget Tuesday night that will raise property taxes 4 percent.The increase means an additional $26 in taxes for a homeowner with a property assessed at $75,000.In a countermeasure, council approved eliminating two "nuisance" taxes — the $......
2007-12-17 01:00:00
P.J. REILLY
Although the snow forecast for Sunday skirted to the north, Lancaster County still had to wrestle with its share of weather-related problems.Ice and high winds were blamed for causing about 6,200 county homes to lose power for at least some part of the day.As of late Sunday night, a......
2007-12-11 12:00:00
TOM MURSE
PennDOT Secretary Allen Biehler said today that transportation planners are "rejiggering" their priorities in the face of tight budgets to fix the state's more than 6,000 structurally deficient bridges while maintaining highways. "We have not come face-to-face with the rea......
2007-12-10 12:18:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A bypass has been on many Strasburg residents' and motorists' wish list for years. But final approval for the long-delayed project is still not quite ready to be wrapped up and put under the Christmas tree, Strasburg Mayor Bruce Ryder will tell Borough Council Tuesday night. &qu......
2007-12-07 11:56:00
TIM MEKEEL
A national chain of used-car superstores, which wants to build one at Manheim Pike and Plaza Boulevard, has disclosed its vision for the project. And, compared to the look of the six aging industrial buildings on the property now, CarMax definitely foresees a very different sight. The p......
2007-12-06 01:17:00
DAVE PIDGEON and MICHAEL YODER
Lancaster County's white Christmas came three weeks early.The winter's first measurable snowstorm left up to 3 inches on the ground here Wednesday before moving east and out to sea overnight, a forecaster at AccuWeather said.The storm was the same system that slammed the Pac......
2007-12-04 11:51:00
CHAD UMBLE
A Quarryville man was killed and two others suffered serious injuries in an early-morning crash on Route 222 near Refton in Strasburg Township. The accident happened at 12:48 a.m. on a curve in the road that has been the scene of several recent accidents. A front-seat passenger in the&n......
2007-11-27 11:32:00
BERNARD HARRIS
PennDOT this morning gave passing motorists a sign that the long-planned improvements of Lancaster City's South Duke Street were finally beginning. The construction zone signs went up at the north and south ends of the work area, between Church and Dauphin streets. Residents got the wo......
2007-11-24 02:03:00
P.J. REILLY
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 11:21:00
RYAN ROBINSON
A developer's plan to build an entire town a mile from Lancaster County has been delayed, but the project is still moving forward. If it eventually is built, New Morgan Borough's population could balloon from 14 people to 20,000 or more. Arcadia Land Company of Wayne wants to build thou......
2007-11-21 11:20:00
TIM MEKEEL and CHAD UMBLE
The goal is to let people shop and spend. Not sit and stew. Last year, when Rockvale and Tanger outlet centers opened at midnight for Black Friday, the turnout was so big that cars were backed up for blocks. Traffic on Lincoln Highway East was at a standstill. Side roads were clogg......
2007-11-20 00:06:00
MICHAEL YODER
While many people will be sleeping off their Thanksgiving meals Thursday night, thousands of shoppers will descend on Lincoln Highway East for early morning bargains — and hopefully not get caught in traffic.Both Tanger and Rockvale outlets will open at midnight for the second consec......
2007-11-17 12:23:00
TOM MURSE
Joe Torres had the right idea. The 18-year-old Franklin & Marshall College freshman, two stuffed suitcases in tow, was boarding an Amtrak train early this morning for Philadelphia, where he was to hop in a taxi to the airport and fly to Los Angeles. Torres is headed home for the Thanks......
2007-11-03 00:43:00
ANNIE GINDER
Martic Township supervisors are spending $15,000 to study a reoccurring storm-water management problem that area residents say has caused flooding on their properties.The study will be performed by township engineer Wilson Consulting Group PC.Residents of the affected areas on Bridg......
2007-10-31 01:10:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The five candidates for three Lancaster County commissioner seats hit the home stretch Tuesday, appearing in Lancaster city for their final debate before Tuesday's election.The event was sponsored by Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry and held before dozens of people in South......
2007-10-30 02:04:00
MARK SCOLFORO
(AP)The state has addressed many of the logistical and communication problems that stranded hundreds of motorists along highways during this year's severe Valentine's Day snow and ice storm, Pennsylvania emergency and transportation officials said Monday.The officials said they had......
2007-10-25 01:58:00
TOM KNAPP
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......
2007-10-20 03:09:00
JAMES BUESCHER
In an effort to bring businesses back downtown and make streets safer for pedestrians, officials in Columbia Borough are working on a way to help large trucks bypass the center of town.One of the options, however, has at least one resident furious.At Columbia Borough's most recent c......
2007-10-17 21:48:00
JOHN FRIEL
West Earl Township officials are still testing the a proposed commercial fire-suppression network.At its Oct. 8 meeting, township supervisors discussed how to divide the cost of a new water tank and pipelines for businesses with sprinkler systems.Last month, the board gave tentative......
2007-10-17 20:43:00
MARCELLA PEYRE-FERRY
As of its monthly supervisors' meeting Oct. 3, Bart Township has completed two of three tasks it agreed to do at Mine and White Oak roads as requested by PennDOT.So far, the township has painted new stop bars on Mine Road, and "two-way stop" signs are on order. The township p......
2007-10-17 20:35:00
MARCELLA PEYRE-FERRY
According to Colerain Township supervisors, it appears PennDOT will be doing road and draining work on Route 272 that PennDOT had previously expected the township to do.This summer, township officials balked when PennDOT indicated the township would be responsible for fixing the long-stand......
2007-10-17 20:16:00
ROXANNE TODD
East Drumore Township residents questioned supervisors Oct. 4 about the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's placement of a "signal ahead" sign on the south side of the new Buck intersection at Route 272 and Friendly Drive.Residents Fran Reining and Marie Kinch said th......
2007-10-12 01:35:00
P.J. REILLY
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a cleanup plan for the Superfund site near the Susquehanna River in Columbia.Essentially, time and Mother Nature will do the work from this point forward, and the EPA will monitor their progress at the former UGI Columbia Gas Co. property on Fro......
2007-10-10 01:28:00
JENNIFER TODD
Get set to make one more stop.City Council on Tuesday night authorized staff to seek an application from PennDOT for a permit to install a traffic signal at South Lime and East Mifflin streets in the southeast section of the city.The installation of the signal is part of constructio......
2007-10-06 02:58:00
JAMES BUESCHER
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......
2007-10-03 20:11:00
SUSAN E. GRUBB
A monumental event quietly took place at 8 a.m. Tuesday when West Donegal Township reopened Foreman Road Bridge.Supervisor Charles Tupper and roadmaster Jeff Templin removed the signs and barricades from either end of the bridge that has been closed for about a dozen years.Tupper sa......
2007-09-27 11:25:00
RYAN ROBINSON
One bridge in the Ephrata area has been reopened to traffic, but another is closing. Work crews Friday night finished bridge deck repairs and reopened the North Reading Road (Route 272) bridge over Cocalico Creek, west of Reamstown in East Cocalico Township, according to the state Department of......
2007-09-27 02:24:00
TOM KNAPP
Some neighbors of a Little Chickies Creek tributary in Mount Joy Township don't want just any bridge traversing the water at Mount Pleasant Road.They want their old bridge back, just like it was in 2002 before arson destroyed the 130-year-old span.But little remains of the old R......
2007-09-27 02:07:00
LORI VAN INGEN
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 18:59:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Manheim Borough council unanimously granted approval Tuesday for Salem United Methodist Church to allow 170 youth to practice football on the church field.Council's approval enables Manheim Athletic Association midget football squads to conduct practices on the property along North Penn an......
2007-09-25 11:12:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
A major road-improvement project at one of Lancaster County's most dangerous intersections is taking a big step forward this week. On Wednesday morning, state and local officials will activate a new traffic signal at the intersection of Route 372 and Route 272 in the Buck, in the county&......
2007-09-23 00:18:00
GIL SMART
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......
2007-09-22 12:26:00
TIM MEKEEL and CINDY STAUFFER
The new Lititz Pike bridge will follow a new route, PennDOT announced Friday, altering the path of one of the most heavily traveled roads in and out of Lancaster City. When it opens in four to six years, the $19 million replacement bridge will be angled to connect directly with Duke Street, eli......
2007-09-19 00:02:00
KIMBERLY MARSELAS
Ephrata Township officials won't stand in the way of an Advanced Auto Parts store on Main Street — at least not based on its parking lot.The board of supervisors have repealed a restriction it only recently imposed on left turns out of 741 E. Main St. because developer WXZ said Advan......
2007-09-15 03:12:00
BILL HANNEGAN
Plans for parkland development along the Susquehanna River estimated to cost $7 million will be unveiled at 10 a.m. Monday in Columbia Borough.Norm Meiskey, borough manager, said officials will gather at River Park to outline plans for more parking and construction of a boat ramp and a bui......
2007-09-14 01:14:00
PATRICK BURNS
Thanks, but no thanks.That's the message Gov. Ed Rendell's administration sent in answer to Sen. Arlen Specter's push to procure $11.2 million in federal funds for the proposed Corridor One rail project.On Sept. 7, at the Harrisburg Transportation Center, Specter said funding looked......
2007-09-13 11:27:00
BERNARD HARRIS
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......
2007-09-13 01:13:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
The Route 30 East ramp onto Route 222 in Manheim Township was closed for more than five hours Wednesday morning when a tractor-trailer hauling 30,000 pounds of tires tipped onto its side.The truck's driver — 43-year-old William Mego of Stewartstown — was cited with two traffic ......
2007-09-12 02:28:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Two construction workers were hospitalized Tuesday afternoon when a car struck them as they walked across a covered bridge in Little Britain Township, officials said.The one-vehicle crash happened about 2:20 p.m. on Pine Grove Covered Bridge on Ashville Road. The bridge — which was t......
2007-09-12 00:44:00
JUSTIN STOLTZFUS
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......
2007-09-10 00:06:00
JOHN JASCOLL
An Upper Leacock Township official said Thursday he was shocked and surprised by PennDOT spokesman Greg Penny's suggestion that there is a lack of local support for a Route 23 highway alternative.Supervisor chairman Ron Simmons said he was referring to a Lancaster Online article he rea......
2007-09-09 00:12:00
CRIS FOEHLINGER
Retired Navy Capt. Ed Davis was a hero. He not only survived 7½ years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war and the torture that went with it, but he returned home to become a motivator and avid supporter of the American dream. To honor all Davis did in his 67 years before succumbin......
2007-09-08 00:52:00
JENNIFER TODD
A structurally unsafe bridge in East Hempfield Township has been closed for so long it's no longer represented on local maps.The one-lane bridge sits on a short, dog-legged stretch of Sylvan Road (formerly South Colebrook Road), just north of Harrisburg Pike.Two years ago, Penns......
2007-09-07 11:07:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A new Route 23, if it ever happens, won't be built until 2012, the latest planning schedule shows. Consultants studying the project notified public officials this week — before two county commissioners expressed opposition to building a new road — that the timeline for the proje......
2007-09-07 01:17:00
P.J. REILLY
Nearly three decades ago, the state Department of Transportation was poised to build a Route 72 bypass around the city of Lebanon.Agency spokesman Greg Penny said the project, which seemed to have the support of the people, was on the fast track to construction.But when the Lebanon ......
2007-09-06 11:25:00
RYAN ROBINSON and ANYA LITVAK
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 03:19:00
MICHAEL YODER
Almost a third of county, municipal and privately owned Pennsylvania bridges have been found to be structurally deficient, and Lancaster County has its fair share.The state Department of Transportation on Tuesday released ...
2007-09-05 01:39:00
ANNIE GINDER
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......
2007-09-01 12:35:00
TOM MURSE
Yo. Scofflaws. The days when you can just park your cars willy-nilly on city streets, shrug off the meters and tear up those small pink tickets tucked in your windshield wipers — and get away with it — appear to be numbered. Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray, working with state lawmake......
2007-08-30 11:21:00
TOM MURSE
Sheila Sabol, perhaps like any other longtime resident of the Mission Hill neighborhood in Manheim Township, can tell you plenty of tales of close calls, near misses and narrow escapes from the busy Oregon Pike. "I almost got hit just last week," she says. "I was stopped to ma......
2007-08-30 02:16:00
TOM KNAPP
Minor repairs will close a westbound lane today on Wright's Ferry Bridge.The heavily traveled bridge, which carries Route 30 over the Susquehanna River, is scheduled for repairs from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mike Crochunis, assistant community relations coordinator for the state Department of Tra......
2007-08-29 00:34:00
JAMES BUESCHER
Marietta Borough resident Lois Elder-Haas is fed up with the state of West Fairview Avenue, which she claims is "disintegrating" with potholes, cracks and fissures.She's asking borough leaders to ignore the problems in hopes that the condition of Fairview between Waterford Av......
2007-08-28 11:50:00
TOM MURSE
Sue Wood walks across the Lititz Pike bridge every weekday morning to get to the Amtrak train station. She can tell you what kind of shape it's in just from her travels. "It looks, at least superficially, like it's in deteriorating condition. The cement and concrete is crumbling......
2007-08-28 01:55:00
DAVE PIDGEON
PennDOT's Web site for the first time is listing the safety ratings of 25,000 individual bridges, the state's highway administration announced Monday.The safety ratings are available at www.dot.state.pa.us.The ratings are brok......
2007-08-22 11:40:00
CHAD UMBLE
Bucking a positive trend in the state, alcohol-related traffic fatalities here spiked last year, giving Lancaster County the highest number of such deaths among all Pennsylvania counties. From 2005 to 2006, alcohol-related fatalities in Lancaster County rose 50 percent, from 18 to 27. In tha......
