2009-11-06 00:06:00
JANET KELLEY
A 6-year-old boy was left on a school bus Wednesday and, according to his mother, was discovered only after she went looking for him.Tiffany Williams said her son, Dante, who is autistic and does not speak, was returned home unharmed.But a day later, the 26-year-old city mother is s......
2009-10-31 10:04:00
MARYCLAIRE DALE, AP Writer
(AP) — A union deadline for a transit strike that could disrupt bus and subway services during the World Series games in Philadelphia was moved to Saturday evening, just hours before the start of Game 3. The union, representing more than 5,000 transit workers, had threatened to go on ......
2009-10-29 17:34:00
PATRICK WALTERS, AP Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia's transit agency remained in negotiations with its largest union Thursday in hopes of avoiding a strike that could disrupt bus and subway services just as the New York Yankees come to town for the World Series. The Transport Workers Local 234, which repre......
2009-10-27 10:16:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Planners of a new regional commuter rail line on Monday presented plaques to the Lancaster County commissioners, city mayor and the county chamber of commerce.The awards were to recognize the elected officials and the business group for their support of regional rail. But they were really ......
2009-10-24 06:37:00
BERNARD HARRIS
It took almost eight months to design and make the new wayfinding signs for Lancaster city.It takes only 25 minutes to install one."We'll have all of them done by Thursday at 8 p.m.," Mike Freudiger, of Geograph Industries Inc., said Tuesday.Freudiger and a thre......
2009-10-21 08:11:00
TIM MEKEEL
While the recession has left most businesses' sales riddled with holes, Lancaster's Amtrak station seems bullet-proof.Ridership here got stronger again, despite a sour economy that cut it regionally and nationally.Local ridership grew 1.8 percent in the year ended Sept. 30, ......
2009-10-20 06:44:00
TIM MEKEEL
A $19,000 rental has finally gotten the $12 million renovation of the Lancaster Amtrak station on track.Work was supposed to get under way this summer, following a June groundbreaking ceremony.But it was delayed by a lack of temporary toilets, showers and lockers for Amtrak employee......
2009-09-29 00:01:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Two years ago, when several projects were proposed for Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster County transportation planners did something that shouldn't seem that unusual.They did a study of the entire corridor, from Prince Street in Lancaster city to State Road in East Hempfield Township.......
2009-09-29 00:00:00
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2009-09-28 00:05:00
TOM KNAPP
The slow, 70-mile road trip is nearly over, but the public hasn't lost its fascination in watching two massive steam generators trundle their way toward Three Mile Island.A heavy downpour Saturday night couldn't keep them away from the scene in Columbia, where the conv......
2009-09-28 00:00:00
LORI VAN INGEN
After working 41 years in manufactured housing, Don Wood needed something to do after he retired on June 2.He thought he would drive a school bus for his good friend, Dave Eschbach. But that was not to be.Instead, Wood makes a big difference for many disabled Lancaster County reside......
2009-09-28 00:00:00
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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....
2009-09-25 16:27:00
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2009-09-25 08:12:00
TIM MEKEEL
A last-minute need for temporary toilets, showers and lockers at the Lancaster city Amtrak station is stalling the start of a $12 million renovation there. The work, which was to begin in late August, is being delayed while the project's manager searches for a way to provide interim facilit......
2009-09-17 08:43:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A year ago, between 70 and 80 people would line up each Sunday morning to catch the 8 a.m. bus from downtown Lancaster to Lincoln Highway East.Red Rose Transit Authority added a second bus to accommodate the crowd.A year later, the crowd is gone. RRTA runs one bus. It is half-full....
2009-09-15 10:23:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster County officials today will submit a $91.5 million grant application that promises to increase traffic flow on Harrisburg Pike, reknit long-severed streets, improve walking and bicycling and ensure the economic vitality of the corridor into the future.The application is to the fe......
2009-08-25 08:30:00
JENNIFER TODD
Car dealers trying to submit last-minute paperwork for the federal "Cash for Clunkers" program ran into delays Monday when the Department of Transportation's Web site continually crashed.Transportation department officials said they would extend the deadline to file reimburse......
2009-08-25 06:04:00
TIM MEKEEL
Twice in his life, Franklin Shearer has fallen in love.First, he fell for trains.Then he fell for his wife, Lucille.The retired Hersheypark executive combines both passions by riding the rails with her, always using Amtrak's Elizabethtown station.Shearer feels so s......
2009-08-13 10:11:00
TOM KNAPP
This isn't a good year to ask the state Legislature for $13 million.And that, John Ward, president of Modern Transit Partnerships, said recently, is a major reason why the Capital Red Rose Corridor is still in transportation limbo."Obviously, with the state of the budget si......
2009-08-08 08:24:00
BERNARD HARRIS
For truckers pulling a heavy load or people learning to drive a stick shift on Lititz Pike, help is on the way.Work on the Lititz Pike-Millport Road intersection is more than halfway done and is expected to be completed by the middle of next month.The $900,000 improvement project in......
2009-08-06 10:23:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Many babies in Lancaster County are born near it, and the grown-ups make plenty of use of it, too.No less than 28,000 cars a day use Harrisburg Pike, 50,000 people go to jobs somewhere along the pike every day and 15 million people a year use the biggest mall along the road, East Hempfield......
2009-07-30 00:01:00
P.J. REILLY
Self-made billionaire T. Boone Pickens always could get an audience with federal lawmakers in Washington, D.C.They liked his deep pockets, he said.But it wasn't until the past year, when he's garnered the support of 1.6 million citizen members of his New Energy Army, that th......
2009-07-26 00:10:00
PAULA WOLF
A year-and-a-half after the Red Rose Council of the Blind requested audible traffic signals, the city confirmed last week that they will be installed at four downtown Lancaster intersections. Charlotte Katzenmoyer, Lancaster's director of public works, said via e-mail that there are plans t......
2009-07-22 10:03:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Former Red Rose Access van drivers have settled a lawsuit with Friendly Transportation in which they alleged the company failed to pay them as much as it should have.The terms of the settlement between Model Management Services, which does business as Friendly, and the 51 former drivers an......
2009-07-16 10:01:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The recession is having an affect on Red Rose Transit Authority and on its bus riders.The number of rides on RRTA's fixed-route bus service dropped by more than 20,100 in June, a decline of 12.1 percent compared with last June."This is no surprise," RRTA Executive Dire......
2009-07-03 20:21:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
A tanker truck carrying farm-fresh milk overturned Friday, dumping part of its cargo.The truck, owned by O'Donnell Brothers Transportation Inc. of Quarryville, was carrying 42,000 pounds of milk when the trailer overturned on Spooky Nook Road at Prospect Road around 9:45 a.m.About 2......
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 ......
2009-06-24 11:00:00
CHAD UMBLE
Lancaster County Commissioners will use federal stimulus money to create grant programs for energy efficient traffic lights and energy audits, among other things. The new projects will be paid for with the $3,795,900 that is the county's share of $3.2 billion in energy efficiency grants being g......
2009-06-24 11:00:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster City officials want to take a closer look at a proposed streetcar system. City Council members voted unanimously Tuesday night to apply for a $20,000 county planning grant to study the feasibility of a streetcar system. The non-profit Lancaster Streetcar Co. has proposed an elect......
2009-06-24 10:58:00
KATY HOPKINS
Following public outcry against the proposed elimination of a bus stop in Manor Shopping Center, the Red Rose Transit Authority voted last week to maintain the stop. RRTA had cited high levels of traffic and trip delays when Route 16, the Millersville bus, stopped in the shopping center. A......
2009-06-13 00:29:00
BRIAN WALLACE
All students in Columbia Borough School District are expected to walk to school, but few of them traverse Ironville Pike, a main artery leading to Columbia Junior/Senior High School.The heavily traveled road has no sidewalks, and water tends to pool on the uneven road shoulders from poor d......
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 10:57:00
BERNARD HARRIS
A transportation study that listed keys to unlocking gridlocked Harrisburg Pike won a national award last year. Now, local officials are hoping it will catch the eye of the U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. Lancaster County transportation officials on Monday voted to package the Ha......
2009-06-09 12:18:00
TIM MEKEEL
Jeff Mearig has a word of advice for anyone thinking of opening a plain old gas station. Don't. "If we were relying on gas sales alone, we'd be out of business. There isn't enough of a markup to stay open," said Mearig, an owner of Brunnerville Garage. And many s......
2009-06-09 10:40:00
AD CRABLE
It's finally coming down. The oft-delayed demolition of the Route 222 railroad overpass — a Solanco landmark often cursed by drivers — is scheduled to begin Monday morning. Demolition crews for Brubacher Excavating of Bowmansville plan to close the road — the unoffici......
2009-06-05 00:01:00
If you want to chart the ebb and flow of the economy, look no further than local bus ridership.A year ago when fuel prices topped $4 a gallon, people left their cars in the garage and hopped aboard Red Rose Transit Authority buses. Ridership rose for 10 straight months, including a whoppin......
2009-06-04 11:14:00
KATY HOPKINS
Gazing out at the freshly painted angled parking spots in front of her home in the 400 block of College Avenue, Lori Lasala knew something was wrong. "When two cars pass, they're crossing the white (parking) lines already," Lasala said. "I just really think the angles aren......
2009-06-03 10:51:00
TOM MURSE
Kathlene Sullivan takes a Red Rose Transit bus from her Lancaster City home to the Manor Shopping Center for groceries sometimes five days a week. On most Saturdays, when she needs to stock up for the weekend, she makes the trip three separate times. "I have arthritis, and I have tro......
2009-06-03 00:26:00
P.J. REILLY
At the Sheetz convenience store on West Main Street in New Holland Tuesday morning, a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline cost motorists $2.55.Red Rose Transit Authority buses had their tanks topped off Tuesday with diesel fuel costing $1.88 per gallon.After paying $3.22 for fuel fr......
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......
2009-05-31 00:06:00
DENNIS LARISON, Business Editor
Elizabethtown has been on a fast track since early this spring to renovate its nearly century-old train station, thanks to federal stimulus funding. On May 20, the borough received another green light when the U.S. Department of Transportation formally awarded two grants for the project, totali......
2009-05-19 00:38:00
P.J. REILLY
Red Rose Transit Authority is hoping to get into more tight spots in the days ahead.Not difficult situations. We're talking physically tight spots.Dave Kilmer, RRTA's executive director, on Monday announced the addition of eight new Chrysler minivans to the Red Rose Access f......
2009-05-12 10:25:00
CHAD UMBLE
For drivers with a short memory, the recent spike in gas prices could be troubling. But compared to last summer's headline-grabbing $4-a-gallon gas, this recent jump of almost 20 cents doesn't seem so bad. And it's also pretty typical. "What we're seeing a......
2009-05-11 11:24:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Jacklyn Ramos waited for her 3-year-old son, Dominic, to be dropped off from preschool on a Wednesday morning at the end of last month. She waited. And waited. Usually, her son's bus driver drops off Dominic between 11:30 and 11:45 a.m. But on this day, his small yellow bus did not arr......
2009-05-07 23:57:00
JACK BRUBAKER
The attorney for residents who oppose construction of a new Norfolk Southern freight rail yard on top of a restored dump site in Manheim Township is concerned and angry. Bill Cluck claims to have found multiple "misstatements'' and other irregularities associated with the ent......
2009-05-07 11:59:00
JACK BRUBAKER
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2009-04-28 10:43:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Plans for the relocation of the Dillerville railyard received a funding boost Monday from members of the county's Transportation Coordinating Committee. Committee members unanimously approved the use of $4 million in federal air quality funding for the $46 million project. The approval......
2009-04-16 09:53:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster City motorists soon will encounter traffic changes on North Mulberry Street, between West James Street and Harrisburg Avenue. A traffic signal has been installed at Mulberry Street and Harrisburg Avenue. That signal is now covered, but is slated to begin functioning April 30, Lancaste......
2009-04-15 09:45:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The sagging economy has at least one upside. With strong competition for the work, bids for the Lancaster Amtrak Station renovation came in under budget Tuesday. Low bids for the five contracts totaled less than $8.4 million. Last year, before the economic recession rocked the nation, $12 ......
2009-04-15 09:19:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The lights in the Red Rose Transit Authority's bus maintenance building stay on all the time. The cleaning of the fleet of public buses is done at all hours, and there is no natural light in the 30-year-old building. There is little natural light in any of RRTA's maintenance or administrat......
2009-04-14 10:34:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Two large projects intended to improve transportation and promote economic development received funding approval Monday. The Red Rose Transit Authority's plans to expand its downtown Lancaster bus station, construct a parking garage and space for the Lancaster Museum of Art was approved ......
2009-03-31 01:06:00
PATRICK BURNS
The state Department of Labor & Industry reported Monday that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose seven-tenths of a percentage point in February and that about one in every 15 people in the Lancaster County work force is looking for a job.Unemployment jumped to 6.9 percent i......
2009-03-27 00:55:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Officials in Lancaster County were caught off-guard Thursday when told they were getting more than $4 million in federal economic stimulus funds for energy and conservation programs.Lancaster County government received the largest chunk — $3.8 million — but the county commissio......
2009-03-24 01:14:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Lawmakers in Harrisburg are trying again to change DUI laws so first-time offenders would have ignition-interlock devices installed in their vehicles.Ignition-interlock devices require a driver to blow into an alcohol sensor when starting the car. If the device senses the driver's bloo......
2009-03-23 00:03:00
MADELYN PENNINO
Bus drivers working in the Hempfield School District have formed a union, the Pennsylvania State Education Association announced.The Hempfield Transportation Support Professionals, which is associated with PSEA, met March 11 to elect officers and ratify a constitution, PSEA said.The......
2009-03-10 10:51:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
A public meeting tonight in East Hempfield Township is all about "finding out the best way to handle traffic through that area," Bob Krimmel said. By "that area," the East Hempfield manager means the suburban township's Farmingdale Road/Barrcrest Lane region, where neigh......
2009-03-10 10:50:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Motorists will have smoother roads and electronic traffic signs. Rail passengers will have a renovated station in Elizabethtown. And the Red Rose Transit Authority will have an expanded and renovated facility on Erich Road. All will benefit with funding from the federal economic stimu......
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......
2009-03-04 02:13:00
DAVE PIDGEON
Life is transitioning from tragedy to advocacy for 22-year-old Jacy Good.Good is in the midst of restructuring her life after a May 2008 car crash that took the life of both her parents and left her in a temporary coma.Starting next week, she'll try to sway state legislators to ......
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......
2009-02-24 00:26:00
PATRICK BURNS
Improved lodging options aren't the only upgrades tourists might notice when they consider visiting Lancaster County.Transportation improvements and upgrades are scheduled at Lancaster Airport and area Amtrak stations.A $12 million upgrade to the Lancaster Amtrak station is sche......
2009-02-21 01:42:00
JENNIFER TODD
After more than a decade away, the library's used book sale is returning to its Lancaster city roots.For 14 years, the event has been held at Overlook Activities Center in Manheim Township, but an expanding inventory last year sent volunteers searching for new digs.Finding a lar......
2009-02-18 11:45:00
TIM MEKEEL
A trucking firm is going ahead with plans to eliminate about 300 jobs at its East Petersburg complex, despite a union's effort to lessen the loss. YRC Worldwide still will cut 302 jobs at its Roadway Express and Yellow Transportation terminals here beginning March 1. Company spokeswoman......
2009-02-17 17:55:00
JENNIFER TODD
Correction — A conceptual drawing of the Central Market and Heritage Center Museum quadrant of Penn Square published with the article below, posted on LancasterOnline on Feb. 10, was created by Thomas Comitta Associates....
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......
2009-01-30 09:27:00
AD CRABLE
Four local recreation trail projects, including the controversial Low Grade Line, are included as candidates for "clean transportation" funding in President Barack Obama's $825 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by the U.S. House on Wednesday. The local projects......
2009-01-27 00:01:00
Six years ago, the Smithsonian's Air & Space Magazine compiled a list of 10 great pilots. The list included some famous names — Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh and Chuck Yeager — and some lesser known pilots such as Jacqueline Auriol and Erich Hartmann.If the magazin......
2009-01-25 00:18:00
GIL SMART, Associate Editor
A bitter two-year feud between the Red Rose Transit Authority and the company that once drove its Red Rose Access buses appears to be drawing to a close. In the courts, anyway. Within weeks, a settlement is expected in a lawsuit filed in October in federal court by 45 plaintiffs who had wo......
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......
2009-01-23 00:35:00
JENNIFER TODD
Eighteen local businesses have been issued warning letters from the Pennsylvania Department of Health because they may have violated the state's smoking ban.Bars and restaurants are among them, but so are an antiques shop, farming and manufacturing firms and Park City Center.Let......
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......
2009-01-07 00:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
Two corporate giants interconnected to dozens of industries squeezed by the recession announced cuts Tuesday that will affect workers in Lancaster County.The nation's largest publicly traded trucker, YRC Worldwide Inc., announced it will cut about 300 jobs by March 1 at two facilities ......
2009-01-06 11:21:00
TIM MEKEEL
An East Petersburg trucking firm is looking to slash about 300 more jobs as it combines divisions. YRC Worldwide wants to close its Roadway Express terminal here, cutting 95 jobs, and downsize its Yellow Transportation terminal here, trimming 207 other jobs. These actions would begin Ma......
2009-01-03 00:02:00
PATRICK BURNS
Lancaster Airport has a new commercial air service.Cape Air will provide regularly scheduled flights from Lancaster to Baltimore-Washington International Airport, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday.Cape Air was favored by Lancaster Airport Authority, which had se......
2009-01-02 11:24:00
AD CRABLE
It's 10 o'clock and the night, New Year's Eve, is going benignly enough for J.D. Williams, a veteran Yellow Cab taxi driver. "Anybody vacant?" the dispatcher for the Friendly Transportation Yellow cab service wants to know. Williams, a 52-year-old lifelong city reside......
2008-12-26 09:02:00
JACK BRUBAKER
How are Lancaster County and New York City residents alike? They drive less than other residents of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Maybe. Metropolitan Lancaster — that's the entire county — ranks 99th among metro areas in a new study of ve......
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 ......
2008-12-10 11:16:00
BERNARD HARRIS
If Barack Obama wants to spend money, Lancaster City is poised to help. Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray Tuesday unveiled a list of a dozen projects that are "ready to go" should President-elect Obama make billions of dollars available to cities for infrastructure spending. During his e......
2008-12-09 10:56:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
It could be a perfect location, near a major highway, for a company that is all about getting out on the road. And for East Hempfield Township officials, it could be a "boost to our tax base, plus good-paying jobs for drivers, shippers and others," as the township's manager sai......
2008-12-09 00:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
The Lancaster Airport Authority announced Monday that it favors Cape Air to land the contract to provide commercial air service here.The authority agreed to send a letter to the Department of Transportation formally endorsing Cape Air, which is one of four carriers that submitted proposals......
2008-12-08 10:45:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Worried school officials at Martin Elementary School were afraid of it. Lots of motorists, especially those who often were forced to wait — and wait — to make a left turn from Wabank Road onto Route 741, hated it. And Rob Eckenrode and his Lancaster Township salt truck and snow......
2008-12-04 11:00:00
TOM MURSE
Hopping on the turnpike? It'll soon cost you more — at least another quarter for every $1 you now pay in tolls. Senior turnpike officials unveiled toll hikes of 25 percent or more today for travelers of the 545-mile highway. Heading to Philadelphia from the Lancaster-Leb......
2008-11-25 10:03:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster City's downtown convention center and Marriott hotel are not due to open until April, but already a change is happening — and it's a change of color. The orange Friendly Taxi cabs that have plied the streets of Lancaster and its suburbs for the last three decades a......
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......
2008-11-18 11:28:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The changes on the drawing board for the Lititz Pike bridge won't stop at the end of the bridge. Included in PennDOT plans for a new $19 million bridge are the realignment of North Duke Street to the end of the bridge and the conversion of adjacent streets from one-way to two-way traffic....
2008-11-16 00:20:00
PAULA WOLF
Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines has submitted a bid to the federal Department of Transportation to bring commercial air service back to Lancaster Airport. Three other air carriers also made bids by the midnight Friday deadline. The Cape Air proposal is for five daily nonstop, round-trip flight......
2008-11-12 11:26:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Diana Zayas looks out over South Duke Street from the window of the El Malecom restaurant where she works. "People called it the ghetto. Now, it's downtown," Zayas said of the street, with its new center islands, bulb-outs on the corners and back-in angled parking. "It l......
2008-11-11 11:00:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Finally, some good news for our wallets. Gas prices are plummeting, hitting a low of $2.14 a gallon here today, the lowest level in almost four years. And some industry experts are predicting the price will continue to drop over the next few months. Folks actually were smiling as they fill......
2008-11-11 01:10:00
PATRICK BURNS
Lancaster Airport Authority is considering a proposal that would establish commercial air service from here to Baltimore/Washington International Airport.The authority listened Monday to a proposal from Cape Air/Nantucket Airlines, a company that flies fewer passengers more often on small ......
2008-11-10 11:00:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Work on the long-delayed Strasburg bypass has begun. An official groundbreaking is being planned for later this week, but contractor Pennsy Supply of Hummelstown has been pushing dirt around on the $6.1 million project since Oct. 20. Strasburg Mayor Bruce Ryder laughed when asked how he fe......
2008-10-28 10:29:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Traffic congestion, air pollution, the health effects of obesity and a stagnant economy are common problems for towns and cities nationwide. Carmel, Ind., had a simple, two-wheeled solution: promote bicycle use. The Indianapolis suburb turned an abandoned rail line into a rail-trail and es......
2008-10-20 11:10:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Thirty-seven former Friendly Transportation drivers who had driven Red Rose Access shuttle buses for the company have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the company failed to pay them as it should have. The drivers contend the company, whose corporate name is Model Management Services, failed to ......
2008-10-05 00:19:00
ANNE KOENIG, Living Editor
The 14-year-old fareboxes on the Red Rose Transit Authority buses will be replaced within the next couple of weeks with electronic swipe-card boxes. "We're hoping, by Oct. 20, to put them into effect," RRTA executive director David W. Kilmer said Monday. The current fareboxes......
2008-09-26 00:17:00
PATRICK BURNS
The U.S. Senate has approved legislation that could once again open Lancaster Airport runways for commercial air service.The legislation temporarily extends the Essential Air Service program until Sept. 30, 2009. The program provides funds to help attract commercial air service to rural ar......
2008-09-07 00:18:00
GIL SMART
The trolley stops here. For now. The head of the Lancaster Streetcar Co., the organization that wants to bring streetcars back to the City of Lancaster, said last week that the federal government will not fund the project in 2009. The Streetcar Co. had requested $14.2 million in grant......
2008-08-26 10:59:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Wendy Slominsky has to listen for traffic to cross the road near her Millersville Borough home. Slominsky must rely on her ears and her guide dog to reach the other side of North George Street and Manor Avenue. Reaching the opposite corner allows Slominsky, who is blind, to go to the grocery......
2008-08-21 01:10:00
CARLA DI FONZO
Start saving your quarters.Beginning Sept. 2, Red Rose Transit Authority will offer 25-cent rides for the entire month on all RRTA bus routes.Dave Kilmer, RRTA's executive director, unveiled the promotion Wednesday."We want the community to have a chance to try RRTA ......
2008-08-17 00:08:00
JON RUTTER
The massive yellow Terex tractor sawed its carbide-tipped blades 12 inches into the surface of Greenfield Road on a recent Wednesday and inched forward. Portland cement dust poofed into the air. The East Lampeter Township landscape trembled underfoot. Adam Hall, an engineer with Herbe......
2008-08-06 20:25:00
ROBERTA STRICKLER
Although commuting to work without a car is not new, the rising price of gas has again given it new emphasis.The issue of fossil fuel conservation has been discussed for years. Now it's urgent. The gas price hike has put commuters on their bikes and their feet on sidewalks, filled seat......
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......
2008-08-05 11:00:00
BERNARD HARRIS
When Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray met with a potential developer for the Lancaster Stockyards site last year, Gray was asked what he would like to see happen on the parcel at the city's northeast corner. The mayor's answer: Clarendon. Clarendon, Va., in Arlington County, just south of Washing......
2008-08-05 01:51:00
JEFF HAWKES
Planners are asking us to think of Harrisburg Pike as a laboratory.And you thought it was just another congested strip of Lancaster County asphalt.Well, you're right about the congested part. Up to 28,000 vehicles a day travel the section between Prince Street and Dillerville Ro......
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 01:50:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The five miles of Harrisburg Pike from Prince Street in Lancaster to State Road in East Hempfield Township comprise one of the most heavily traveled stretches of road in the county.Figuring out how to accommodate all that traffic is the goal of the Harrisburg Pike Transportation and Land U......
2008-07-31 01:08:00
P.J. REILLY
Lancaster County's public transportation program for seniors and the disabled hit a series of potholes over the past month, for many reasons.But the head of Red Rose Transit Authority said Wednesday there are no excuses.Dave Kilmer, executive director of RRTA, which administers ......
2008-07-30 11:26:00
CHAD UMBLE
The top Red Rose Transit Authority official said today there was "no excuse for the harm we caused people" earlier this month, when many elderly and disabled residents who depend on the county's shared ride service were left in the lurch. "Excuses don't cut it, they just ......
2008-07-28 11:18:00
BERNARD HARRIS
When consultants studying Harrisburg Pike drove the roadway during the peak morning and evening periods, they found what area motorists already knew was there: congestion. The five-mile trip from Prince Street in Lancaster City to State Road in East Hempfield Township took an average of 14 minu......
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 ......
2008-07-27 00:20:00
GIL SMART
Tuesday was a good day for Cynthia Handel. Her ride was actually on time. "It's a one-time-in-a-row thing," said Handel, of Willow Street, who is blind and uses the Red Rose Transit Authority's Access program to get around. The program has been plagued with problems since......
2008-07-27 00:04:00
GIL SMART
Once upon a time the future of transportation might have looked like something out of a Jetsons cartoon. A few years from now, it might look a lot like Harrisburg Pike. Or rather the "new" Harrisburg Pike, a "smart transportation" network envisioned by local planners in a landmark study to be u......
2008-07-25 11:56:00
ROBYN MEADOWS
Transportation for senior citizens and disabled residents has improved, and steps are being taken to make it even better, county officials say. And some riders of Red Rose Access agree: This week, they've experienced fewer glitches. But some say there are still problems. Officials from......
2008-07-21 11:05:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Get a horse! That's what some drivers might think they should do as they pay $4.10 or more for a gallon of gas. But maybe they should think again. It's true that a new car costs nearly three times as much as a typical Lancaster County Old Order Amish horse-and-buggy rig. ......
2008-07-16 11:25:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Getting around is getting better for some local senior citizens and disabled residents. But it's far from perfect for some who use a van transportation service called Red Rose Access. Delays, mix-ups, long rides and other problems have occurred since July 1, when Easton Coach took over the......
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......
2008-07-12 01:47:00
STEPHANIE WEAVER
Red Rose Transit Authority's expansion plans for the Queen Street station could take a big step forward, thanks to preliminary approval of federal funding.Sens. Arlen Specter and Bob Casey announced Friday that 17 Pennsylvania transportation and housing projects were approved by the U.......
2008-07-08 11:16:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Things are looking up for senior citizens and disabled residents who use a transportation service here. Last week, those people experienced delayed and missed pickups, early drop-offs at sites that had not opened yet and long rides on Red Rose Access vans. The service has improved this ......
2008-07-03 13:36:00
CINDY STAUFFER
Getting around the county for some elderly people turned into a nightmare this week, when a new company took over a shared-ride service for the Red Rose Transit Authority. Two people, including a woman in her 90s, were stuck on Red Rose Access vans for as long as five hours on their way home fr......
2008-06-27 12:07:00
RYAN ROBINSON
Traffic fatalities in Lancaster County this year are down, in line with a national trend. Twenty-five people have died so far this year as a result of accidents on county roads, newspaper records show. That's down from 32 killed by this time last year, a 22 percent drop. It's the l......
2008-06-24 10:09:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster County receives about $70 million a year to spend on transportation improvements. How best to spend that federal and state money now and into the future is the focus of the county's Long Range Transportation Plan, approved Monday by the multi-agency Metropolitan Planning Organization.......
2008-06-18 09:50:00
CHAD UMBLE
Lancaster County Commissioners helped put 14 transportation projects across the county on the road to completion today. During their regular meeting, commissioners approved 14 grants totaling $1.5 million to install traffic lights, widen roads, add sidewalks, replace bridges, among other projec......
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......
2008-06-13 01:00:00
TOM KNAPP
A dedication ceremony in Columbia Borough on Thursday was bracketed, aptly enough, by the arrival of buses.Columbia, which is working hard to reinvent itself as the jewel of western Lancaster County, unveiled a new improvement to its downtown business district to acclaim from several state......
2008-05-25 00:18:00
GIL SMART
Start at Village Grande, along Harrisburg Pike in East Hempfield Township. Say you live in the neighborhood, and have an appointment at the Lancaster General Health Campus, less than half a mile away. In theory, you could walk, but there are no sidewalks. Sauntering along the busy road, you tak......
2008-05-23 11:23:00
STAFF
The state Transportation Department wants to repair, replace or remove 33 Lancaster County bridges, as part of a statewide effort by the Rendell administration to upgrade Pennsylvania's transportation system.You can see exactly which bridges in your community are targeted for......
2008-05-22 11:00:00
BERNARD HARRIS
With additional funding available from the federal government, the Red Rose Transit Authority's board voted Wednesday to trim a July 1 fare increase and expand service beginning Aug. 25. The board approved a 15-cent increase for riders in each of the public bus system's four zones, down......
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......
2008-05-22 01:42:00
JENNIFER TODD
Route 30 East is Lancaster County's most recognizable and most visited tourist destination, but the bustling corridor is quickly losing its identity as a thriving business district.That's the conclusion of a new county-level look at the highway.A lack of coordinated planning......
2008-05-15 11:10:00
JACK BRUBAKER
Many Lancaster residents drive out of their way to avoid the conglomeration of commerce along the "Route 30 tourist strip." Too much traffic. Too many signs. Too much haphazard development. Too little scenery worth seeing. It doesn't have to be that way, county planners say. ......
2008-05-15 11:30:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Keith Hufford rolls his bicycle into the door of Lancaster's Amtrak station and in seconds, he has folded it into a tight package of metal bars, wheels and gears. Within minutes of leaving his North Charlotte Street home, Hufford is standing on the platform, folded bicycle in hand, waiti......
2008-05-11 00:20:00
GIL SMART
Dianne Mousley's had enough. Every day, she drives the Fruitville Pike from her home in Manheim Township to her job in Lancaster. Every day it's the same: Start. Stop. Red light after red light along one of the county's busiest corridors — a corridor that, she thinks, might be......
2008-05-09 12:12:00
BERNARD HARRIS
It may be years away — if ever — before streetcars again rumble through the streets of Lancaster City, but a group organized to establish a streetcar system has already made its first purchase. The non-profit Lancaster Streetcar Company has bought a 52-year-old streetcar with the in......
2008-05-02 09:29:00
STAFF
A school bus believed to be carrying children was involved in a minor accident with a sport-utility vehicle at West Vine and and South Water streets shortly before 8 a.m. today. City police declined to give any information about the accident at the scene. LaRonda Reid, 37, of Lancaster,......
2008-05-01 00:53:00
MICHAEL YODER
A wheelchair-bound woman was struck by a school bus Wednesday afternoon along North Duke Street in Lancaster.Witnesses said the woman, who was identified by friends as Terry, was headed north on Duke Street, crossing in the crosswalk at the intersection of New Street, near Lancaster Genera......
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......
2008-04-18 10:34:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted overwhelmingly for a bill that may save Lancaster County bus riders a quarter or more per ride. The Senate vote allows a temporary fix for transit funding for smaller public transit agencies, such as the Red Rose Transit Authority. It would allow RRTA to u......
2008-04-17 12:03:00
BERNARD HARRIS
The Red Rose Transit Authority is considering increasing bus fares by 25 cents for all its zones to cover its increased fuel costs, the public transit agency announced today. Under a fare structure proposed to RRTA board members Wednesday evening: • Fares for fixed-route bus service w......
2008-04-15 14:42:00
TIM MEKEEL
The ailing owner of Yellow Transportation and Roadway is proposing a complex regional reorganization that would shrink its dwindling presence in East Petersburg by 82 jobs overall. Trucking giant YRC Worldwide has told union leaders it wants to pull 155 Yellow jobs out of the Route 72 terminal ......
2008-04-15 01:11:00
BRETT HAMBRIGHT
Four elementary school students were hospitalized Monday when the school bus in which they were riding collided with a sport utility vehicle in East Lampeter Township, officials said.The injured children were among a group of about 30 Smoketown Elementary School students who were riding th......
2008-04-12 00:52:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
The hotly contested race to win the GOP nomination for the state Senate seat in the 13th District got hotter Friday as accusations flew regarding the candidates' latest financial disclosures.Of specific interest to many was the report of West Lampeter Township supervisor Lloyd K. Smuck......
2008-04-07 00:06:00
JAMES BUESCHER
The Route 30 corridor east of Lancaster city serves as a gateway to the region for millions of visitors every year, but what greets them is a congested commercial landscape.County officials hope a consulting firm's study will reveal ways to reinvigorate the strip of hotels, outlet mall......
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......
2008-03-25 10:10:00
ROCHELLE A. SHENK
Work on the final phase of the multi-year project to restore the Manheim Railroad Station to its 1881 exterior appearance began earlier this month. The building, at 210 S. Charlotte St., serves as the headquarters of the Manheim Historical Society. The project to restore the station began in 20......
2008-03-24 10:47:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Motorists are wincing at the pump this week as average gas prices hover just below the record high of $3.28 per gallon. But just imagine if you bought your fuel by the tanker load. The Red Rose Transit Authority — which burns about a tanker truck load of diesel a week in its buses &m......
2008-03-19 09:36:00
CHAD UMBLE
A $12 million renovation and upgrade of the Lancaster Amtrak station is on track to finally begin this fall. Today, Lancaster County Commissioners committed their remaining share of $400,000 pledged toward the project, a move that will trigger the release of $11.6 million in state and federal m......
2008-03-18 11:34:00
BERNARD HARRIS and RYAN ROBINSON
Columbia and Gap are the apparent winners and proponents of a new Route 23 in eastern Lancaster County are the losers in the latest slicing up of the transportation-funding pie. A draft plan released Monday by the Lancaster County Planning Commission shows funding for the relocation of Route 44......
2008-03-15 00:40:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
Amish taxi drivers will make their case before the Public Utility Commission next week, saying assessed fees, which have risen as much as 320 percent, are much too high.•••Amish taxi drivers, faced with huge increases in the fees they p......
2008-03-13 11:01:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Continuing the study of Route 23 or building a new Route 441 around Columbia — pick one. That is the funding dilemma being placed before transportation planners. As the state shifts funding to the repair of structurally deficient bridges, money allocated for other projects is being c......
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 ......
2008-03-10 01:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
The price of diesel fuel hit an all-time high in Lancaster County on Sunday as it soared to an average of $3.99 per gallon, according to AAA.The high cost has hurt truck drivers, who were conspicuously absent Sunday from the usually busy 222 Travel Plaza truck stop in Ephrata."......
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......
2008-02-28 10:31:00
BERNARD HARRIS
To anyone who will listen, Leo Lutz has a plea: Help save his town. The Columbia mayor this week took that message to the county transportation planners and the county commissioners. Lutz is pushing for the relocation of Route 441 around Columbia Borough. Last week, he learned the bypass w......
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......
2008-02-19 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....
2008-02-15 01:40:00
PATRICK BURNS
The U.S. Senate Thursday passed legislation that could reinstate the Essential Air Service program at Lancaster Airport.The bill, if signed by President Bush, would extend the EAS program one year at Lancaster and provide funds to subsidize commercial air service for the area.Lancas......
2008-02-01 02:18:00
JEFF HAWKES
These uncertain economic times heighten the urgency of the task businessman and longtime civic leader James Shultz is shouldering.Shultz, development manager for Charter Homes, is co-chairing a first-ever effort to quantify the strengths and weaknesses of Lancaster County's transitioni......
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......
2008-01-25 01:37:00
LARRY ALEXANDER
To some students of the American Civil War, Gen. Robert E. Lee was a brilliant general whose masterful handling of the Army of Northern Virginia almost won independence for the South.To local author Edward H. Bonekemper, Lee was a good general but overrated; a man whose unyielding focus on......
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......
2008-01-04 01:30:00
JENNIFER TODD
New crosswalk signals in the city, which tell pedestrians exactly how much time they have to cross the street, are getting rave reviews."We've gotten a lot of positive feedback," Charlotte Katzenmoyer, the city's director of public works, said Thursday of the signals. &qu......
2007-12-30 00:11:00
PAULA WOLF
The word "workshop" can conjure up images of boring informational handouts, and speakers who specialize in putting people to sleep. The experience doesn't usually involve trying to push open a swinging door while sitting in a wheelchair, or walking around a mini-obstacle course wh......
2007-12-12 12:23:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
It was early Sunday morning, and she knew the store where she was headed was "going to be mobbed" within just a few hours. Stacy Detwiler, of Lancaster, was waiting as her bus came rolling through the mist and fog alongside Lancaster's Hotel Brunswick. Also waiting were four ......
2007-12-11 12:05:00
BERNARD HARRIS
It's official, we're breathing a little easier in Lancaster County. The federal Environmental Protection Agency upgraded its designation of Lancaster County's air quality from "marginal nonattainment" to "attainment area." The county had failed the federa......
2007-12-11 11:58:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
Even through last week's falling snow, Ed Arnold didn't have any problem seeing the traffic signals across George Street on the edge of Millersville. The signals' visibility has been markedly improved by the installation of a new black background behind the red-yellow-green arrangem......
2007-12-11 00:45:00
MICHAEL YODER
A school bus contracted by School District of Lancaster was involved in an early morning crash Monday in East Lampeter Township.The bus, carrying 28 students from Lancaster Mennonite School, Locust Grove School and Seventh Day Adventist School, was rear-ended on Route 462 near the entrance......
2007-11-18 00:08:00
GIL SMART
As Lancaster's fledgling streetcar initiative rolls along, a new group had clambered on board. The Lancaster Streetcar Co., the non-profit group formed to study whether a $14.1 million, 2.6-mile trolley loop could work in the city, has added several members to its board of directors, some o......
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......
2007-11-08 01:40:00
LORI VAN INGEN
When Rick Gray was campaigning door-to-door, he heard residents from the city's northeast and southwest complaining that they felt left out, that their needs were not being addressed.Gray, now the city's mayor, made a commitment to do something about that."I thought we'd do somethin......
2007-11-06 01:03:00
P.J. REILLY
Over the past 25 years, the number of miles vehicles have traveled on county roads has doubled.Amtrak ridership is up.But the number of Red Rose bus passengers is declining.So say local transportation statistics, according to Brian Funkhouser, a consultant with Gannett Flemin......
2007-11-05 11:50:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster County travelers will have the opportunity to weigh in on transportation projects at a series of public meetings. And, for the first time, they will be able to make their views known immediately through the use of hand-held wireless devices. During the forums to update the county......
2007-11-05 00:06:00
TOM KNAPP
The history of warfare is linked indelibly to transportation.From aircraft and naval vessels to jeeps and motorbikes, the military always has had to find better ways to get where it needs to go. That's where the histories of trains and troops overlap."Railroads really were ......
2007-10-30 02:30:00
PATRICK BURNS
People formed multiple lines on the third floor of Lancaster General Health Campus Main Building about 15 minutes before Monday's meeting to discuss a study of Harrisburg Pike traffic.Eventually, about 110 area residents filtered into the meeting, where they got to look at preliminary ......
2007-10-29 11:34:00
ANYA LITVAK
Five candidates are seeking three county commissioner seats in the Nov. 6 election. They are Republicans Scott Martin and Dennis Stuckey, Democrats Molly Henderson and Craig Lehman and Independent Jere Swarr. Starting today, the New Era is running a five-part series with the candidates' r......
2007-10-25 01:39:00
JENNIFER TODD
Two years after the completion of Red Rose Transit Authority's downtown terminal, office space above the station is ready for lease.The offices were not completed until this summer because there was not enough money to finish the space as part of the original terminal project, accordin......
2007-09-29 11:57:00
TIM MEKEEL
A new commercial airline probably will be cleared for takeoff at Lancaster Airport much sooner than expected. Action by Congress late Thursday set in motion a complex procedure that could bring a new carrier here in three months, rather than the four-to-six months originally predicted. &qu......
2007-09-26 11:01:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Motorists long-accustomed to seeing red on four of the county's main traffic corridors may see more green on the distant horizon. Lancaster County transportation planners on Monday approved funding for traffic-signal coordination on Centerville Road, Columbia Avenue, Rohrerstown Road and Lititz......
2007-09-23 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......
2007-09-21 11:10:00
BERNARD HARRIS
After more than three years of negotiations, the $40 million plan to relocate the Dillerville rail yard is slowly chugging forward. Franklin & Marshall College is orchestrating the move of the freight switching yard from the site along Harrisburg Avenue to a location behind the main Lancast......
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......
2007-09-12 11:35:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Sen. Arlen Specter is doing his best to keep plans for the CorridorOne commuter rail line alive. Appearing at a press conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's senior senator said he is working to arrange for $11.2 million for the rail line from Lancaster to Harrisburg. The show of s......
2007-09-11 00:01:00
PATRICK BURNS
Lancaster Airport Authority said it is aggressively seeking a commercial air carrier to replace outgoing Mesa Airlines, whose contract ends Sept. 30.At the authority's monthly meeting Monday, Joyce Opp, airport finance and marketing director, said she has had talks with Gulfstream Internat......
2007-09-07 11:08:00
TIM MEKEEL
Temporary inconvenience, permanent improvement. Lancaster Airport will lose commercial flights to Pittsburgh Sept. 30, grounding service here for four to six months, airport officials said today. But officials voiced hope that they'll land a new commercial airline that will fly......
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......
2007-09-06 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......
2007-09-03 00:12:00
P.J. REILLY
The proposed Corridor One rail system would cost taxpayers too much money and is likely a dead project.Citing Capital Area Transit projections that the proposed Corridor One line would carry 444 daily one-way passengers between Lancaster and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Transportation Secretar......
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......
2007-09-01 12:25:00
ANYA LITVAK
Jenna Geiter is a sweet and polite 14-year-old girl, with purple toe-nail polish and neat braids freshly woven for her first day of high school. In her raspy voice, Jenna says things like "okey dokey artichokey," and talks about her new sneakers, a pair of Champs, for her first day of......
2007-08-29 11:32:00
MEAGAN INGERSON
The bells rang and the big yellow buses rolled in this morning at Conestoga Valley schools, the latest county district to start the school year. Opening day's first hours went smoothly at the district's high school, middle school, and four elementary schools, Superintendent Gerald Huesken sa......
2007-08-15 00:08:00
WES BURDINE
After months of wishful thinking, Providence supervisors have resigned themselves to leaving Fairview Road in the hands of the state.The supervisors met with PennDOT officials last month to continue talks on transferring ownership of the road to the township.The transfer was to incl......
2007-08-14 11:19:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell this morning announced statewide funding of $2 million for welfare-to-work transit. Lancaster County's portion of that amount is $30,000 to the local mass transit agency, the Red Rose Transit Authority. "That's good. That will help keep that program going," sai......
2007-08-06 11:20:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Federal legislators took a step Friday toward keeping the buses running in Lancaster. A small step, anyway. The U.S. House of Representatives passed amendments to the federal transportation act that would allow Lancaster's Red Rose Transit Authority and transit agencies in other sma......
2007-08-02 11:20:00
BERNARD HARRIS
Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray quietly rolled his little black motor scooter into a spot in the city's Prince Street Parking Garage on Wednesday, removed his helmet and was on his way to the office. Well, almost. First, Gray had to stop and have his photo taken. The mayor is hoping that ......
2007-08-01 11:06:00
DAVID O’CONNOR
It stretches from the heart of the cityscape, past Lancaster County's largest mall and other major traffic producers, and into the heart of the countryside. It's a major gateway into the city, "and it certainly has changed more than any other traffic corridor than I can think of......
2007-07-27 11:46:00
TIM MEKEEL
Keep on trucking?Not Alcoa. The local plant is spending $2.4 million to build another railroad spur, so it can begin to use railroad cars to bring in a kind of aluminum ingot. The project, part of $14 million being invested to upgrade the 1480 Manheim Pike complex, will replace 5,000 tr......
2007-07-25 01:38:00
P.J. REILLY
Large trucks rumbling through downtown Lancaster on Route 222 have been irritating city drivers for decades.Municipal and county planners frequently have discussed the idea of providing a bypass around Lancaster for those trucks.If only John Nolan's vision for city transportatio......
2007-07-17 01:50:00
DAVE PIDGEON
The state House and Senate Monday approved a $27.2 billion state budget, more than two weeks after a deadline imposed by the state constitution.The budget — which would run until June 30, 2008, and raise spending by about 3.2 percent over the 2006-07 spending plan — now goes to......
2007-07-14 01:20:00
SUSAN E. LINDT
Two area transportation projects are listed for major funding, but a few more hurdles must be cleared before the money rolls in.On Friday, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter announced $11.2 million has been earmarked for final design and construction of the Corridor One project, a proposed commuter r......
2007-07-13 16:40:00
STAFF REPORT
The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved three major projects for Lancaster County, including more than $11 million for a high-speed rail service between Lancaster and Harrisburg.U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, a member of the Appropriations Committee, and junior Sen. Bob Casey Jr. a......
2007-07-05 13:28:00
JANET KELLEY
A young Ronks woman remained hospitalized in serious condition today from injuries sustained when a truck hit the horse-drawn buggy she was riding in on Tuesday morning. Marian Stoltzfoos, 22, was driving the buggy eastbound on Route 340 in Leacock Township around 9 a.m. when a truck, driven......
2007-07-01 00:15:00
GIL SMART
When Clipper Magazine Stadium opened to cheers, members of the Bring Back Baseball Committee were hailed for their efforts and their success. And it was a success. But it was one, said Jack Howell, that was 15 years in coming. Neither Rome nor minor league ballparks, nor any other community ame......
2007-06-29 02:26:00
MICHAEL YODER
Mass transit in Pennsylvania faces higher operating costs and rule changes in legislation, but lawmakers and the public are striking back to keep local buses running.State Rep. John Bear announced Thursday the start of a feasibility study to look at ridership on the Red Rose Transit Author......
