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To: SargeK

“Both from trucks overturning on the PA Turnpike.”

PA is the WORST, why, why is that?

You are lucky and I pray you remain lucky!


35 posted on 01/05/2017 6:32:08 PM PST by jocon307
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To: jocon307

Thank you - I need all I can get!

The Turnpike is one of the most heavily traveled highways plus it is the first “superhighway”. The grades, the curves are the legacy of the abandoned rail line which right of way it follows. The engineering is for the most part not up to modern standards but improvements are slowly being made.

The problem is that our state legislature has made it a cash cow for bailing out big city mass transit and financing named-after-politician pork barrel highway projects which divert a lot of the toll money that should have been put into main line improvements.

I have done work out there and traveled it end to end over a thousand times. I see the same sorts of crashes over and over in the same places for over 30 years.


41 posted on 01/05/2017 6:49:08 PM PST by SargeK
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