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ItsBobsledTime OP t1_j5m0m8r wrote

Reply to comment by themanpotato in Am I crazy, or is the new 95 / Aramingo interchange a disaster already? by ItsBobsledTime

The whole plan is a mess. From the highway merge to the looping you have to do to get to york going North. Just terrible and it looks like shit.

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mortgagepants t1_j5ombwo wrote

it was a jobs program after 2008- "shovel ready". after that i'm sure traffic was a consideration, then the usage, and finally anyone who has to live by it.

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ItsBobsledTime OP t1_j5oukf1 wrote

Can you elaborate on what you mean by “shovel ready”?

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mortgagepants t1_j5ovfy1 wrote

after the 2008 crash they passed the "american recovery act" or something. but they didn't want new projects- they wanted stuff that was already planned and approved and ready to go, just didn't have the money for. this was because the faster people got back to work, the more money circulated in the economy.

95 widening was one of them, another around here was refurbishing a bunch of amtrak cars to last another 10 years.

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Proper-Code7794 t1_j5pa8g2 wrote

Because 95 was four lanes and then became three lanes at Girard and then became four lanes again so there's always been traffic at the constriction point.

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