Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Hatboro residents have asked the Hatboro Borough Council to make improvements to Warminster Road following last month's pedestrian death.
A month after a 75-year-old Upper Moreland pedestrian was killed while walkingin Hatboro, her family and a neighbor have forged a campaign to have Warminster Road made safer. Hatboro resident Scott Wenger, an interventional radiation specialist for Cooper Hospital in Camden, shared with the Hatboro Borough Council how in November he tried to save the life of Upper Moreland resident Dorothy Lodge, who had been struck by a car practically outside of his Lycoming Avenue home in November. "I never want to see out in front of my home what I saw that night," Wenger, a father of four and medical professional of 20 years, said Monday night. "I was scared." Wenger, along with Lodge's daughters, Joan Schemmer and Dot Stanley, said they would like to…
Monday, April 9, 2012
PennDOT officials urge safer, slower driving as the road construction season gets underway.
Spring weather means flowers blooming, warmer weather … and road work. While construction delays can be frustrating, oftentimes pushing the need for speed, hefty penalties are reason enough for motorists to take a brake. Motorists caught driving 11 miles per hour, or more, above the posted speed limit in an active work zone, or who are involved in a crash in an active work zone and are convicted of speeding, automatically lose their license for 15 days, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Nearly 600 motorists had their license suspended for work zone violations last year. “The start-up of road work season is also a good time to remind motorists about our state’s Steer Clear law,” said State Police Maj. Timothy J. …
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Speedway Raceway would like to convert the former Walmart into an electric go kart race track, Horsham's zoning hearing board is expected to render a decision on Aug. 9.
Is there a difference between “amusement” and “recreation?” And what constitutes “passive” and “active” uses? The Horsham Zoning Hearing Board will weigh in with its opinion on these definitions related to whether an indoor electric go kart racing facility is permitted to locate at the shuttered Walmart, 200 Blair Mill Road, in the largely vacant Village Mall shopping center. During Tuesday night’s meeting, the board heard back and forth testimony from individuals representing the proposed Speed Raceway franchise, as well as township officials who, in fighting the facility’s placement within the strip mall, argued that racing is a “recreation” and “active” use and therefore not permitted. Township attorney Peter Nelson said the use, as …
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Residents of James and Home roads say speeding drivers cut-through the residential streets from Blair Mill Road.
A handful of residents whose streets border the Hatboro Little League field asked for Hatboro Borough Council’s help in curbing through traffic. Charlie Hess of James Road said speeding cut-through and truck traffic is particularly bad on the tree-lined residential roadway from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. He said drivers ignore the posted "Children at Play" and 25 MPH signs. “We need your help before something goes wrong. I lived through that 33 years ago when I was these guys’ age,” Hess said to the council Monday, as he motioned to kids sitting nearby. “When you ask these people to try and slow down, you’re usually met with an obscenity.” Hess said James Road is home to deaf, as well as autistic residents and asked if the council could either …
Ezra Williams
1:26 am on Thursday, December 27, 2012
"as the word you barely write." You are obviously the literary genius I inspire to be. When I figure out what a "LISENCE plate number" is, perhaps I will give it out. Wait, my five year old daughter pointed out you might be trying to spell the difficult word LICENSE. And I'm the idiot? more ›