[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Also:

I-81 plan takes a regional approach (12/7/19)

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[mewzilla]

We just spent some time on a portion of PA’s hunk of I-81. Yikes.

[Dr. Sivana]

Gee, where were you 10 years ago when I regularly made the drive up I-81 going from Illinois to Connecticut? This is a long overdue development, and it will be hell as it is being built (but worth it).

[Spacetrucker]

The entire stretch of I-81 from south of Wilkes-Barre to the NY state line needs redone. Though it isn’t as bad as the reconstruction of Snow Shoe Mountain on I-80, it will be a pain in the a**.

[oldvirginian]

That particular stretch of Hell In Asphalt needed fixing 15 years ago.
Thank the Lord we got the worst of I-81 in Virginia fixed. It was a pig path.

[Revel]

The joke in PA is that I81 is always under construction. And traffic is always at a standstill because of it. I81 in PA has been under construction for decades.

[Steely Tom]

When I graduated from college in 1978 I began to experience I-81 in the vicinity of Scranton for the first time. The construction project there — which had already been underway for some time in 1978 — continued through my adulthood, into my middle age, and still continues today, as I enter my "Golden Years."

[conservative98]

This road is always under construction and has been under construction since I moved here in 94. And probably before that.

[EEGator]

There’s a no window, trucker strip joint in Duncannon.
Lovely people around there.
PS. I stop at the Subway across the street.

[Erik Latranyi]

Yes, this is 20 years overdue.

What is infuriating is that the project will not start until 2025 (if the environuts do not block it) and will probably last until 2030.

I-81 needs to be widened from Route 29 all the way to the PA Turnpike Exit 194 Clarks Summit.

Since widening this will take 30 years, they should go for 4 lanes in each direction, not just 3.

But, this is PennDOT....they will screw it up, just like the Susquehanna Valley Bypass for Route 11/15