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Lancaster County unveils constrained 1- and 6-year road and bridge plan; community pushes for added safety on 68th Street near Norris schools
Summary
County Engineer Pam Dingman presented Lancaster County's fiscally constrained 1- and 6-year road and bridge improvement program and federal-aid projects; public commenters and the sheriff's office urged additional paved detour routes, paved shoulders and a roundabout at 68th and Princeton to protect the Norris School District campus during construction.
Lancaster County Engineer Pam Dingman presented the county's proposed 1- and 6-year road and bridge improvement program and detailed a slate of federal-aid projects at a public hearing, emphasizing constrained local funding and reliance on federal grants to advance major work through fiscal 2026–2031.
Dingman told the Lancaster County Board that the county's inventory includes hundreds of bridges and thousands of culverts and pipes. She described steady progress on bridge health — reducing sites rated scour-critical or scour-susceptible from 62 in 2019 to 27 today — and noted the county replaced roughly 65 culverts last year but still faces substantially more needs. Dingman said the '1-in-6' plan reflects the county engineer's fiscally constrained budget for years two through six, not total county infrastructure needs, and that without federal aid there would be no pavement projects in the current budget year.
The presentation included project-level details and…
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