Potholes and Road Apples

Lancaster City Council members voted Tuesday night to ban riding of bicycles on downtown sidewalks as a pedestrian safety measure.
The ban includes the area bounded by Lemon, Water, Lime and Farnum streets. It will take effect in mid-December.
The city ordinance extends an existing ban on sidewalk riding that covers the four-block area around Penn Square.
Council members narrowly […]

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The forecast for Saturday’s Wonderland Cyclocross Race is cold, with a grass run-up, a sand pit and a few barriers to jump.
Lancaster’s only cyclocross race of the year begins at 10 a.m. in East Lampeter Community Park, 2320 Hobson Road. The event is being held by Christiana Cycling, the folks that brought us the Christiana Criterium […]

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The Lancaster Bicycle Club is again offering grant money to governmental and non-profit organizations to for bicycling-related projects in the coming year. The club will award as much as $25,000 in 2009 through the program.
 Eligible projects could include bicycle parking facilities at public sites, bicycle patrols, classes in proper cycling techniques and traffic rules or […]

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Pennsylvania will be without a professional road team competing in 2009, a Cyclingnews.com post indicates.
The Wayne, Pa.-based Rite Aid Pro Cycling Team presented by Shebell & Shebell did not seek a professional UCI license for 2009, according to an official of USA Cycling, the sport’s national governing body, who was quoted in the article.
Rite Aid […]

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Andy Clarke, president of the League of American Bicyclists, made promotion of cycling in Lancaster County sound like a no-brainer … as easy as, well, riding a bicycle.
He made his case this morning before about 45 county and municipal planners, local police officers and bicycling advocates during a workshop at the Lancaster Farm & Home […]

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Lancaster City Council members next week will begin consideration of a measure that would ban the riding of bicycles and skateboards on downtown sidewalks.
A ban already exists within a one-block area centered on Penn Square, at Queen and King streets. The proposal would expand the ban to sidewalks throughout the Downtown Investment District at the […]

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County transportation planners, municipal and county officials are expected to gather Friday morning, from 7:30 a.m. to noon, to hear presentations about how to encourge bicycling in Lancaster County and participate in workshops about steps they can take.
The featured speakers at the workshop is League of American Bicyclists Executive Director Andy Clarke and Bill Nesper, director of […]

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No one can accuse Mike Ridgeway and Lauri Ahlskog of thinking small.
In two weeks they intend to announce a big goal and start what they hope is a communitywide conversation about how to get there: making Lancaster “bike friendly.”
Ridgeway, the local bicycling advocate and founder of the Dream Ride Projects bike tours, and Ahlskog, the […]

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USA Cycling, the governing body of professional bicycle racing in this country, today published its 2009 National Racing Calender on its website. The schedule lists 34 events, up by one from this year. Strangely absent from the list are nearly all the annual professional races held in this region by the Norristown-based Pro Cycling Tour.
The only Pro […]

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On Wednesday morning, in the pre-dawn darkness, I was counted a half-dozen other bicyclists on the 12 miles of road I covered between Lititz and downtown Lancaster. The number was unusually high. I have noticed more commuters in recent months - those cyclists like myself, carrying bags of clothing and sometimes a coffee thermos on […]

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