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Steelplate7 t1_jblg6su wrote

Reply to comment by ktxhopem3276 in Will the cost of a central Pa. thruway reach $1B? PennDOT officials hope not by dissolutewastrel

I work in Selinsgrove and live in Middleburg. This needs to be done. Anyone who has navigated the “golden strip” of 11/15 knows how bad the traffic sucks and most of it is thru traffic.

It will be a huge economic boon to the local economy to have traffic that actually WANT to be in the area instead of trying to get where they’re going.

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ktxhopem3276 t1_jblln1r wrote

I used to drive the new interstate 99 portion of 15 from NY to Williamsport and then down to Harrisburg. This new project goes nicely with that

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Jsingles589 t1_jbmimr8 wrote

I live in selinsgrove, and yes, this project solves a lot of annoying truck traffic going through shamokin dam.

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imamunster123 t1_jboz8r7 wrote

Grew up literally one street off the strip in Hummel's Wharf, can confirm. This has been needed for a long, long time.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jbonjco wrote

Nobody lives in the areas served by this proposed freeway. Why piss away over a billion dollars to put a highway from nowhere to nowhere in?
 
According to Google Maps it takes sixteen minutes to drive from Selinsgrove to Middleburg. How much shorter a commute are you looking for here?

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Steelplate7 t1_jbqfqat wrote

Tell you what…look at a fucking map instead of worry about where I live/work.

I was just using my location to give a general idea of how familiar I am with the situation.

There is a real issue with thru traffic that makes it damn near impossible to navigate that strip.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jbtv8bw wrote

> Tell you what…look at a fucking map instead of worry about where I live/work.

 
You told us where you live and work. I checked a map. Driving from A to B takes sixteen minutes.

 
> There is a real issue with thru traffic that makes it damn near impossible to navigate that strip.

 

Apparently not, since people do it every day.

 
We don't need to piss away a billion dollars on a highway from nowhere to nowhere so you can get home four minutes earlier.

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Steelplate7 t1_jbulen4 wrote

You still don’t get it. The issue is NOT me getting to and from work. It is doing anything else in our area…which goes way beyond me.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jbus1r2 wrote

I have family in the area and drive on 11&15 whenever I'm out there. It isn't congested in any sense of the meaning unless you're a country bumpkin who doesn't understand what real traffic looks like.

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Steelplate7 t1_jbulhh5 wrote

No…let’s spend multiple billions of dollars so you can have 10 more buses. Fuck off…

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_jburz7x wrote

Ten new buses would cost about $7 million and move more people in any given year than your billion dollar highway from nowhere, to nowhere.

 
There are 80-100K people living in the entire area this highway would service. There are more people than that living within a twelve mile radius of me.
 
$1b so a few bumpkins can get home a couple minutes earlier from work is an insane amount of waste.

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