After 60 Years, 1,900-Mile-Long Interstate 95 Is Almost Finished (bloomberg.com)

"It has taken 60 years, but a small, strange gap in Interstate-95 is being filled," writes Slashdot reader McGruber. Bloomberg reports: Near the Pennsylvania border, drivers have long been forced off the interstate and onto other roadways, only to join back 8 miles away. Transportation officials and civil engineers spent more than two decades and $425 million to eliminate this detour off I-95, the most traveled highway in America, spanning 1,900 miles from Miami to Maine.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, which oversees the I-95 Interchange Project, said the new infrastructure -- which includes the creation of flyover ramps, toll plaza facilities, environmental mitigation sites, intersections, six overhead bridges, widened highways and new connections to the New Jersey and Pennsylvania turnpikes -- will be open to the public by Sept. 24. "The benefit of completing this 'missing link' is mobility," said Carl DeFebo, the director of public relations at the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. The new infrastructure will reduce traffic time for north- and south-bound travelers and ease congestion on local roads that used to connect I-95 to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Comments

News for Commuting Nerds?

[QuadEddie]

I don't know why this is on Slashdot

Re:full schedule for the impatient

[GLMDesigns]

Create strawmen and then wonder why you are ineffective and surprised that the "stupid" people aren't convinced by your witticisms.

Republicans don't have a problem with the government building roads. Some anarcho-capitalists and minarchists do, but certainly not the standard Republican.

And no one - not Republican, nor anarcho-capitalist, would say that we have the freedom to drive on any part of the road we choose.

Your foolishness only works within the echo chamber and fails everywhere else.