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Pedestrian Hit by LANTA Bus and Injured

A 74-year-old woman was struck by a LANTA bus on Nov. 14 in the parking lot of the South Mall, near the Bon-Ton.

  A 74-year-old woman was struck by a LANTA bus on Nov. 14 in the parking lot of the South Mall and injured, according to Salisbury police. Patricia Wirth was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest and treated for a concussion, scrapes and a head wound, police said. The accident, which happened at 11:25 a.m. near the Bon-Ton, is under investigation.  The bus driver's name was not disclosed.

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Nazareth Woman Behind Wheel of Fatal One-Car Crash at Bus Stop

Two pedestrians were killed when Caitlyn Clark, 26, of Nazareth lost control of her SUV Monday afternoon and crashed into a LANTA bus stop in Hanover Township, Lehigh County.

A Nazareth woman was behind the wheel of a sport-utility vehicle that careened into a bus stop -- killing two pedestrians -- in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Angel Bosch, 28, of Easton, died at a hospital after the 3:26 p.m. crash near the Lehigh Valley International Airport, according to a report in The Express-Times. Elias Tabarani, 51, of Allentown, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police say Caitlyn Clark, 26, of Nazareth, was traveling east on Race Street when, for unknown reasons, she lost control of her 1996 Nissan Pathfinder. As Clark approached the Cascade Drive intersection, according to police, she drove onto a grassy area, struck a utility pole and, lastly, hit four men waiting at a …

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Public Meetings Today on LV Highway, Bridge and Transit Study

The Lehigh Valley Transportation Study will hold public meetings on Wednesday, June 6 to solicit comments on highway, bridge and transit projects.

The Lehigh Valley Transportation Study will hold public meetings tomorrow to solicit comments on a proposed transportation improvement plan for the region over the next four years. The Transportation Improvement Program lists high-priority highway, bridge and transit projects in the Lehigh Valley that would be undertaken from Oct. 1, 2012 through Sept. 30, 2016. The group will consider adopting the program on July 18. The meetings will be held at 10 a.m. in the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission conference room, 961 Marcon Blvd., Suite 310, Allentown, and at 5:30 p.m. in the PennDOT District 5 conference room, 1002 Hamilton St., Allentown. The document is available at www.lvpc.org and to the public during normal business hours at the Lehigh…

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An Independent View

Widening Route 22 Won't Fix Our Traffic Problems

A better solution: investing that money in LANTA.

Bruce E. Davis of the Route 22 Coalition brings us the latest bad idea from the 2000's that should have been put out of its misery when the housing bubble popped. Mr. Davis has long been an advocate for widening Route 22 to a 6-lane freeway between 15th Street and Airport Road, but Ed Rendell's "fix it first" policy for infrastructure mercifully ended that idea's prospects for a while. But now, Tom Corbett's Transportation Funding Advisory Commission appears to have put the issue back in play, and local sprawl boosters are giddy. In a Morning Call opinion piece, Mr. Davis wrote: Within the [Commission's] report are comments that have put the widening of Route 22 to six lanes between the 15th Street and Airport Road exits back in play. As …

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LANTA to Install New Bus Stop Signs

LANTA will install more than 200 bus stop shelters throughout Lehigh County over the next five years as part of its new development plan.

LANTA officials met with the Salisbury Township Planning Commission Tuesday to give an update on a major development plan for their bus routes in Lehigh County. LANTA Planning Director Owen O’Neil said the plan, called Move LANTA Forward, includes installing new signs at all their bus stops in Salisbury Township over the next year to make them more consistent and more easily identifiable. O’Neil also said the new bus stop signs will provide helpful information on bus route schedules. A phone number will be placed on the sign so riders can call to get bus schedules, as well as the status of an approaching bus. LANTA will install more than 200 bus stop shelters in various locations around Lehigh County over the next five years,  O’Neil said…

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LANTA Route 210 Rerouted in Western Salisbury

Salisbury commissioners approve proposed revised bus Route 210 route.

The Salisbury Board of Commissioners Thursday approved a LANTA proposal to restructure bus Route 210 in Western Salisbury. The proposal is part of a major strategic program the transit agency is conducting to redesign all of their bus routes. The official restructures are scheduled to take effect by August 29, 2011. LANTA planning director Owen P. O’Neil announced that Route 210, which currently serves Lehigh Street and the South Mall, was redesigned to provide enough schedule time to serve the areas surrounding Devonshire Park Apartments on 33rd Street SW and DevonHouse Assisted Living of Allentown on Bevin Drive.  “Anyone can use the service,” O’Neil said. “We expect that groups that will particularly benefit from the service are the …

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