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A look at life sped up.
On a recent sweltering day, supporters of the under-construction Cynwyd Heritage Trail came out to clear out a boatload of trailside weeds near the Barmouth Station area, where Levering Mill Road dead-ends and you can peek into West Laurel Hill Cemetery in the other direction. For information about opportunities to volunteer in the trail effort, visit Friends of the Cynwyd Heritage Trail.
A flipped pickup truck in Conshohocken closed all westbound lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway about 5 p.m. Tuesday. The closure ended at 6:30 p.m., but not until almost 7 p.m. did traffic resume at normal speeds through Lower Merion. This video, shot from the hillside parking lot of La Collina in Belmont Hills (with Manayunk in the background), shows in one minute the final 15 grueling minutes for westbound drivers as their eastbound neighbors fly past.
This was the third day of Lower Merion Township tennis lessons. For information about how to participate, contact David Broida at 610-864-4303 or at dbroida@gmail.com.
This week's Fast Forward shows the combination of a passing thunderstorm and a sunset Thursday night, shot from one of the highest points in Lower Merion: the athletic fields of Welsh Valley Middle School in Penn Valley.
It looks strenuous in this video, but at regular speed, Georgette DuBois' "Gentle Yoga" class at The Yoga Garden in Narberth is just that.
Today's Fast Forward comes from Thursday afternoon's torrential rain. A trip to Green Bean Coffee in neighboring Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch lasted perhaps longer than it would have otherwise, and while the parking lot puddled up, we shot a little video.
The Cynwyd Heritage Trail in Bala Cynwyd is scheduled to open this fall, but before construction crews can lay down pavement, they have to build a solid base of soil. In the spirit of impatience, this week we show you what that work looks like at 16 times the normal speed.
A construction crew with a crane puts steel beams in place at a construction site on Old Lancaster Road, just north of City Avenue.
This week's fast forward shows you heat after heat of 100-meter dashes at Tuesday's girls' track meet at Lower Merion High School, followed by the start of the 1600-meter run. To suggest a subject for a future Fast Forward, tell us in the comments section or e-mail eric.campbell@patch.com.
This week's Fast Forward video (sped up to octuple speed) shows a local baseball team taking fielding practice on a diamond at Narberth Park on Wednesday afternoon. If you have an idea for an activity to be Fast Forwarded, tell us in the comments or e-mail eric.campbell@patch.com.
This week's Fast Forward video shows rush-hour traffic Monday afternoon at the intersection of Rock Hill Road and Conshohocken State Road in Bala Cynwyd. Contributing to the bustle is the flow of Wawa customers.
Fast Forward is a new video feature that will appear at Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch every Thursday at 11 a.m. Enjoy an occasional glimpse at what life looks like sped up around here. Today's Fast Forward shows you Monday afternoon's baseball game between Lower Merion and Haverford high schools at South Ardmore Park. The Aces are in white, the Fords in red.
Fast Forward is a new video feature that will appear at Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch every Thursday at 11 a.m. Enjoy an occasional glimpse at what life looks like sped up around here. Today's Fast Forward shows you what it looks like at the Narberth post office between 4 and 4:30 p.m. on a Wednesday.
Fast Forward is a new video feature that will appear at Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch every Thursday at 11 a.m. Enjoy an occasional glimpse at what life looks like sped up around here. Today's Fast Forward shows you 12 minutes of Monday afternoon traffic at Montgomery Avenue, Levering Mill Road and Old Lancaster Road, compressed into one minute of footage.
