Four new, accessible, small transit buses are designed to carry 18 ambulatory passengers, or four non-ambulatory and 10 ambulatory passengers. Four older, high-mileage buses were traded in on the vehicles. The department also puchased a Dodge Grand Accessible Minivan from Rohrer Bus Company. Funds came from two grants from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The department provides transport for senior citizens, mentally or developmentally disabled or physically challenged residents, and medical-assistance recipients, as well as the general public.
Riders pay a fee.
Middlesex approves Daily's expansion Middlesex Township Board of Supervisors approved Daily Express plans Wednesday to tear down its office building at 1072 Harrisburg Pike and replace it with a modern complex. Daily Express uses the building as its operations center, where trucks are dispatched and training is done. More space is needed for its 63 employees, officials said. The Dickinson School of Law's associate dean, Harvey A. Feldman, has been appointed to a commission working toward adoption of uniform laws. Gov. Tom Ridge appointed Feldman to a four-year term as a commissioner on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.