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Transportation Plan to encourage bicycling

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Lancaster County’s draft Long Range Transportation Plan - a policy document intended to steer transportation spending through 2035 - is calling for greater planning for non-automotive transportation, including bicycling.
Consideration of different modes of transportation is a significant shift for planners who have previously focused on improvements to the county’s 3,830 linear miles of roadway — […]

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F&M bikes

April 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Students and faculty of Lancaster’s Franklin & Marshall College have begun exploring the community mounted on new blue and white college bicycles.
The mountain bikes were donated to the school by alumnus Michael Zane earlier this month. Zane is the founder of Kryptonite Bicycle Lock Corporation and the company’s chairman and president until its sale to […]

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Brits make an effort

March 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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