Roadwork to start Sunday on Route 30 from river to Marietta Avenue

PennDOT contractors will begin repairing and resurfacing more than eight miles of Route 30 in western Lancaster County on Sunday night.

While there will be no daytime restrictions, motorists may encounter single-lane traffic restrictions in one or both directions between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.

Motorists may also encounter closed ramps and detours at the interchanges with Third Street, Prospect Avenue, Stony Battery Road or Centerville Road during the work.

Pennsy Supply Inc. of Annville, Lebanon County, has been awarded the roughly $7 million contract.

The project includes repairing the road base, removing old asphalt and repaving the road from the Susquehanna River and Prospect Road and the rest of road to Marietta Avenue will have work done to seal and help extend the life of the pavement.

Work normally will run  Sunday through Thursday nights, with Friday as a make-up night should they lose a night to inclement weather.

The project is scheduled to finish in late October. Nearly 23,000 vehicles use the road daily.

http://m.lancasteronline.com/news/local/roadwork-to-start-sunday-on-route-from-river-to-marietta/article_0f971898-cd72-11e4-a0b9-9b423fa6fbae.html?mode=jqm

PA State Police using secretive cell phone trackers

As reported on this site on Monday (http://columbiapa-17512.blogspot.com/2015/03/a-police-gadget-tracks-phones-shhh-its.html), police are using a device to track cell phones. Here's an article from today's LNP with further information:

http://lancasteronline.com/news/pa-state-police-using-secretive-cell-phone-trackers/article_7e0d17da-cdb0-11e4-ab97-6780e535e332.html

Man struck in Columbia

Emergency crews responded to a person struck by a car in Columbia just after 9 p.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of South Front Street.
A 45-year-old man from Wrightsville was walking along the road when he was struck.
He is listed in critical condition.
His identity has not been released at this time.
Front Street was closed from Mill to Plane. Police are investigating.

Know Your Rights When Taking Photos and Making Video and Audio Recordings

Taking photographs and videos of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is your constitutional right. That includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties.

When in outdoor public spaces where you are legally present, you have the right to capture any image that is in plain view.

MORE:
http://blog.aclupa.org/2015/03/17/law-genius-know-your-rights-when-taking-photos-and-making-video-and-audio-recordings/

Ice damage from Old Man Winter

A length of pavement has lifted at River Park, a victim of the current winter.  

The season's not over yet - a chance of snow this Friday (the first day of spring).

Lending a helping hand . . .

to a train!

Don't think it's moving?

Look below:

What I Saw March 17, 2015

 Nail alley. 

It's not on the map, but it extends from the western tip of Avenue H to Walnut Street.

Sealant is being applied to the new water company structure.

That's on our bill, too. 

Easter bunny - April 4