Potholes and Road Apples

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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A few months ago, I accidentally startled a woman crossing a small Lancaster City street. She didn’t look and by steadily pedaling my bicycle, I wasn’t making much noise.
Soon afterward, it happened to me. I was riding and suddenly a car was passing me that I hadn’t realized was there. The car, a Toyota Prius, […]

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Two women riding bicycles were severely injured when a man riding a motorcycle crossed the center line and ran into them on Tuesday evening in Brecknock Township, state police reported.
Adam Eugene Nolt, 21, of East Earl, was travelling west on Pleasant Valley Road at about 8:30 p.m. on a Harley Davidson motorcycle when he rounded a left-hand […]

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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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Every year at this time, following the excesses of Christmas celebrations, we are bombarded with advertisements for diets, gyms, cosmetic surgery and exercise equipment.
All play on the common New Year’s resolutions to lose weight and live a more healthy lifestyle. For bicyclists, the answer is simple: just ride.
Winter officially started Dec. 22 and so far […]

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Lancaster County’s bicycle map, created by the Lancaster County Planning Commission four years ago, is due for an upgrade.
Lauri Ahlskog, the county’s bicycle and pedestrian planner, is compiling text changes to be made to the map before reprinting.
Among those changes is the deletion of the former Crank bicycle shop in Ephrata and the movement of the […]

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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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