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Showing posts with label LANTA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LANTA. Show all posts
Thursday, October 23, 2025

LANTA Could Face 20% Service Reduction in January

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Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANTA) is seeking $701,727 from NorCo in 2026, and Executive Lamont McClure has proposed $7...
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Friday, June 20, 2025

NorCo Council Supports State Funding Increase For Mass Transit

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Earlier this week , NorCo Controller Tara Zrinski issued a news release concerning the possible outright elimination of bus service to the s...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Zrinski Wants Bus Service in Slate Belt To Continue

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As most of you know, I'm an old fart. I live in an apartment building specially set up for old farts and younger disabled people with li...
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Friday, February 17, 2017

Fred Williams On LANTA Board for 30 Years

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Northampton County Council enthusiastically and unanimously voted last night to give affable Fred Williams another four years on the LANTA B...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Brown Makes Good Call For LANTA Board

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One of Northampton County Executive John Brown's first appointments was that of Richard McAteer to LANTA, the Lehigh Valley's mass...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

LANTA Increases Its Mass Transit Service

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LANTA driver Rich Gubish blocked hit-and-run driver Bethlehem Township's very own Tim Brady, LANTA's Board Chair , was at Northa...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Should We Fund $100,000 Per Year Bus Drivers?

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LANTA's CFO, Melissa Gemelli, took a beating at yesterday's County Council budget hearing. The LV's public transit system is as...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

LANTA Mourns 13 Year-Old Easton Boy Fatally Struck By Bus

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At LANTA's web page , a small candle flickers for Robert Mitchell, the 13 year-old boy who lost his life yesterday when his out-of-contr...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Norco Council Appoints Zorro to LANTA

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Last month , Northampton County Council derailed alternative transportation advocate Steve Schmitt's appointment to LANTA's board. ...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Dennis Lieb: LANTA Despises Anyone Low Enough to Ride the Bus

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On Thursday night , Northampton County Council rejected abrasive alternative transportation advocate Steve Schmitt as a LANTA board member...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Schmitt Unfit for LANTA

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They threw him under the bus! By a 6 to 3 vote, Northampton County Council last night derailed alternative transportation advocate Steve Sch...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Will Controversial Cyclist Get LANTA Appointment?

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As a LANTA board member, Steve Schmitt smugly dismissed the plight of the mostly minority-owned businesses along Allentown's Hamilton St...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008

Ozone Action Day on Monday

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An ozone action day is forecasted this Monday. Because the air will be unhealthy, the following actions are recommended: * Conserve electr...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Try Transit Day

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Try Transit Day is the last Friday of every month. With fuel prices now creeping over that magical $4 amount, many more of us will be doing ...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Northampton County To Diversify LANTA Board

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Cordelia Miller , a twenty year veteran of the American Red Cross of the Greater Lehigh Valley , was today unanimously recommended by Northa...
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Friday, December 07, 2007

Mike Molovinsky Wary About LANTA Improvements

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After months of ignoring Allentown's suffering Hamilton Street merchants , mass transit provider LANTA finally responded on November 16...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

Dennis Lieb: Is Easton's Riverwalk Floating Away?

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Dennis Lieb attended Tuesday night's Easton Parking Authority (EPA) meeting, and has the only first-hand account: "At tonight's...
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Monday, November 19, 2007

LANTA & Easton: The Sequel?

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When LANTA rerouted buses for its new Allentown terminal, it did so without considering any adverse impact on small merchants who depend on...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

LANTA Finally Responds to Allentown's Hamilton Street Merchants

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According to the Express Times , LANTA has finally responded to Allentown's suffering Hamilton Street merchants . The plan is to run a ...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

McHale Comes Through For Struggling Hamilton Street Merchants

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Ann McHale should be angry at me. During her reelection bid, I supported her opponent , Tom Dietrich. What's worse, I criticized her im...
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