Centre County commissioners heard updates this morning on an improved pedestrian/bike path, The Stage at Talleyrand Park and an early intervention mental health program.
The College Township Regional Bike and Pedestrian Path is a revived effort to create a one-mile connection to Penn State’s campus along East College Avenue. This path would connect Puddintown Road to Hastings Road on campus.
Commissioner Mark Higgins said the need for safe bike transportation is even more important in light of yesterday’s deadly crash in State College.
“I had a friend pass away yesterday who was a cyclist, and he was in a car bike collision on South Atherton yesterday,” Higgins said.
State College Police said the 70-year-old bicyclist, who hasn’t been named, was going north on the bike path and entered the road and hit a vehicle.
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