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After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

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Re: After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

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Post by sevensor »

acheron wrote: post #7

Glad they finished that. Now if they could just complete I-70 in Breezewood PA...

I think Breezewood would cease to exist if that happened. There's not a lot going on there besides confused drivers trying to figure out why they're not on the interstate any more.

Re: After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

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Post by sevensor »

GavinMcG wrote: post #6
nadermx wrote: post #4

This article talks about increased mobility as the end goal. Clearly the highway transportation act did not actually increase mobility. Mobility is design in a sense to require less commutes with multi use land use. This instead forces users to have to commute large lengths regardless in a system that was designed, specifically, to reduce mobility all through the United states.

If you think the article is clearly wrong to use a certain word, consider the possibility that they're using a different definition than you are. I, for one, would never identify "requiring less commutes" as a key facet of mobility. To me, it means that it is easier to get around – and on a large scale, that's absolutely the (successful) goal of the interstate system.

It wasn't just individual or commercial mobility, but also internal lines of communication for national defense, that motivated the Eisenhower interstate highway system. The official name of the interstate system is the "Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways." By that measure, what's important is whether you can get an APC from Pennsylvania to D.C. quickly, not whether you can get to your office in a timely fashion.

Edit: presidential spelling

Re: After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

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Post by dougmwne »

acheron wrote: post #7

Glad they finished that. Now if they could just complete I-70 in Breezewood PA...

I knew I'd see something about Breezewood in here. For those who've never had the pleasure, just before you hit the PA Turnpike, there's a 500m gap in I-70 where you are forced to exit and reenter all while dodging a minefeild of gas stations, red lights and fast food. Those 500m can add 30 mins to your trip. It exists as a political aberration. In the 60's, the feds and state couldn't agree who should pay for an interchange connecting the two roads, so no one did. Like a stubborn wart on the highway system, Breezewood remains.

Re: After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

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Post by tdb7893 »

cryptozeus wrote: post #13

Projects like these should be sponsored by private firms. Let them put up ads/billboards on the sponsored highway. This can provide fund to finish the project.

I doubt that billboards would recoup much of the cost of interstate highways, they go through major metropolitan centers often only every couple hundred miles and billboard ads really aren't that expensive.

Re: After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

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Post by sndean »

mrfusion wrote: post #3

Now let’s fix the parts in NC and SC where it goes down to two lanes and gets backed up every day.

I was curious about how much that'd cost. At least for SC, it was estimated at ~4 billion [0] in early 2017. There's a proposal saying they could raise ~600 million of that per year by increasing the gas tax by 10 cents/gallon. I don't know where that proposal went, if anywhere.

[0] https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/article128...

Re: After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

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Post by T-hawk »

> Near the Pennsylvania border, drivers have long been forced off the interstate and onto other roadways, only to join back 8 miles away.

This is a misleading overstatement. This is only true if you want to drive the roads labeled as I-95. There are indeed two segments labeled as I-95 that are discontinuous: the NJ Turnpike south until exit 6, and from Trenton southwards through PA to Delaware. But those segments are linked by the remainder of the NJ Turnpike, which forms a continuous highway route from northern NJ through to Delaware, and the signage indicates that all through traffic should do that.

Ascii art diagram:

      A
      A
  BXXXA
  B   C
  B  C
  B C
  BC
  B
A and B are the discontinuous sections of I-95 (A is the NJ Turnpike; Trenton is at the north end of the B section); C is the remainder of the turnpike; X is the "new" section. X already existed, it's just being redesignated as I-95. The only thing actually missing was the interchange between X and B. But none of that really matters because C is the more direct route anyway.

Re: After 60 Years, I-95 Is Complete

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Post by swebs »

I really don't understand the problem. From NY to just outside Philadelphia, I-95 is part of the Jersey Turnpike. Then the Jersey turnpike is suddenly labeled I-295, and I-95 teleports to the highway running through Philadelphia. You can see it from this map [1]. They both then meet up again in Wilmington, where they both merge into 1-95 again. Why not just keep the designation of I-95 on the Jersey Turnpike throughout the entirety of New Jersey?

[1]https://goo.gl/maps/GpjeGtvmrJ42

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