Would bike & buggy trail work?
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA – Henry Beiler wants to turn a 5-mile section of unfinished highway in East Lampeter and Upper Leacock townships into a combination recreation trail and buggy path.The Upper Leacock farmer told an Aug. 19 PennDOT hearing here that the “goat path” could be better used as a bike and buggy trail than as part of a proposed Route 23 bypass. Does this plan, originally promoted by East Lampeter resident Fred Daum two years ago in a similar forum, have legs? Reaction has been muted, but neither did anyone blow horns and beat drums when a similar idea first was proposed in an Amish community nearly 400 miles west of Lancaster. All that has changed. This summer Holmes County, Ohio, home of the world’s largest Amish community, opened the nation’s first bike and buggy trail a path now traveled every day by hundreds of Amish and “English” users. Arguing for a similar trail here, Beiler and Daum say a non-vehicular use for the goat path would occupy less open space and invite
