Potholes and Road Apples

London’s mayor is hoping to make England’s capital city a bicycle utopia. Along with the city’s much-publicized $50 daily “congestion charge” for motorists who drive the most polluting vehicles, Mayor Ken Livingstone has proposed building a dozen bicycle “superhighways” that would link the city suburbs with commercial areas.
It is expected to take a decade to build the […]

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A Maytown woman was handed a 3-6 year sentence Monday for striking and killing a bicyclist while driving drunk last year.
Denise Hall, 50, who also has a residence in Florida, struck Michael Blankenbiller while he was riding on the right shoulder of Harrisburg Pike, in Manheim Township, near the Park City Center shopping mall at about […]

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Manheim Township police are searching for a bicyclist who reportedly went after a motorist late Monday morning with a chain after, the bicyclist claimed, the driver nearly hit him.
According to police, the unknown bicyclist came up beside David Denisewick’s vehicle while he was stopped for a red light at Fruitville Pike at the Hawthorne shopping center, north […]

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Members of Lancaster County’s Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee this week called on bicyclists to send comments on the new county Long Range Transportation Plan. An on-line transportation survey is being conducted in conjunction with the update of the plan. Comments can be made at the end of the survey.
The plan, which includes transportation projects in […]

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Warwick Township Police in reported recently that a bicyclist suffered a broken arm when he was struck by a hit-and-run motorist just outside Lititz Borough earlier this month.
According to a police report published in the Lititz Record-Express newspaper, the driver of a red sports car failed to stop for a sign on Crosswinds Drive, at Woodcrest Avenue, at about […]

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A 16-year-old New Holland boy was struck and killed by a sports utility vehicle while he was riding his bicycle on Hahnstown Road at about 10:30 p.m. Friday, Ephrata police reported.
According to the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, Curtis Martin was the last of five friends riding single-file on the narrow road when he was struck by […]

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Lurch to the right: transport minister Tom Harris sharpens up his cycling skills in Leicester. Photograph: Fabio De Paula/PA
 

The British, facing the same problems we face here, are making an effort to deal with childhood obesity and traffic congestion by attempting to reintroduce an old concept: children riding bicycles.
And, rather than just given cycling lip service, the […]

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