Posted on 01/14/2019 11:01:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
By the time the I-95 reconstruction is complete, you’ll probably be too old to have to worry about a commute.
The same goes for the planners, engineers, managers, and laborers who for more than a decade have worked to rebuild the highway’s 51 miles in Pennsylvania from the ground up. Their careers at PennDot or with contractors will almost surely end before construction does.
“I don’t know that I think about too much that I’m not going to be here,” said Elaine Elbich, PennDot’s portfolio manager for the I-95 project.
Elbich plans with a span of decades in mind. From PennDot’s regional office in King of Prussia, she looks at maps showing the highway’s path from Delaware County to Bucks and can identify what will be finished in the 2020s, the 2030s, and beyond.
The Curious Philly portal invites readers to ask the Inquirer questions about the city and region; one reader wondered how much longer highway construction would last. That person, and the many others who face diversions and delays because of the project, should not expect relief any time soon.
The portion of the road under construction now, from Cottman Avenue to the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, won’t be finished for another nine or 10 years, and that’s just one of four segments to be rebuilt.
The project has prompted complaints, especially when traffic patterns shift to make room for construction. Officials hope, though, that drivers recognize the need.
“I think people understand,” said Leslie Richards, Pennsylvania’s transportation secretary. “They’ve been driving over it, and they knew it needed some work.”
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EEGator said “I refuse to go on 422. It’s a good place to die. That and the Sure Kill Hwy...”
You mean the Sure Kill Distress Way!
When I arrived in Dayton to take a job in 1985, the I-10 curve around Dayton was under construction.
It was still under construction when I retired 31 years later.
We would visit Arizona in the summers and see a freeway begun one summer and completed the next. Shocking difference.
AZ built two major freeways in less than seven years, less time than it took OH to build A SINGLE OFFRAMP at Austin Landing.
Make it a toll road and it can be done in four years.
Sounds like Illinois. No sooner is a highway job completed after years and years, when it has to be started all over again due to cheesy materials, shoddy workmanship etc. Provides crooked contractors and even more crooked unions with lifetime careers.As an added benefit it generates a lot of kickbacks to politicians.
I live in southern UT. Great roads...no tolls. No parking meters either. The streets in town were laid-out by the pioneers...wide enough to turn around a 4-horse wagon. Also, we only pay 3 cents per kwh for electricity. So far this winter has been two mornings when the temps were in the low 20’s...no snow. Note: all LIBs stay away.
Get rid of the Unions and things would be done in 1/3rd the time and 1/10th the cost.
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