Using options other than driving alone to work help improve our air quality by reducing the number of vehicles on the road. To help commuters find those options, new signs are being installed along highways in the region to promote 1-866-579-RIDE, the Commuter Services of South Central Pennsylvania toll-free phone number.
Look for the blue and white signs suggesting “try carpooling” or “try transit” along some of the most congested highways, such as Interstates 83 and 81, and Routes 222, 283, 30, 322, 422, 11 and 15 in York, Lancaster, Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry and Lebanon counties.
Commuter Services free services include matching carpoolers and vanpoolers through its confidential, online ridematching database (www.PaCommuterServices.org) and, with its transit partners, assists commuters with information on transit services.
County Looks To Sky For Green Solutions
May 31, 2007 - Intelligencer Journal - Lancaster, PA
The greening of Lancaster County may soon extend to its rooftops. The county is partnering with several public and private property owners to secure state funds for a "green roof" program that aims to cover conventional roofs with plants.
"Green roofs are one of the ways of implementing the greening of our urban areas," said Mary Gattis-Schell, a senior planner and land-recycling specialist with the county planning commission.
March 16, 2007 - Intelligencer Journal - Lancaster, PA
The hanging gardens of Babylon, city hall in Chicago, a Ford Motor Company assembly plant building the size of five city blocks - all have been topped with layers of soil and plants to create green roofs. Advocates say living roofs are one way - a beautiful way - to capture storm water before it becomes polluted. They insulate better and they last longer than conventional roofs.
March 16, 2007 - Intelligencer Journal - Lancaster, PA
In Lancaster city, the Kendig C. Bare Public Safety Building at Duke and Chestnut streets is being rehabbed into offices with plans to include a green roof, according to owner/developer Bill Roberts of IBS Development Corporation. A permeable membrane roof covering has been installed on the former city police station, and engineers have calculated the weight load of soil, plants, snow and even people, Roberts said.
Using options other than driving alone to work help improve our air quality by reducing the number of vehicles on the road. To help commuters find those options, new signs are being installed along highways in the region to promote 1-866-579-RIDE, the Commuter Services of South Central Pennsylvania toll-free phone number.
