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    • … for the public conveyance of goods suggested itself. On 26 July 1803, Jessop opened the Surrey Iron Railway in south London - arguably, the world’s first public railway, albeit a horse-drawn one. It was not a railway in the modern sense of the word, as it functioned like a turnpike road. There were …

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    • … Both led to vast changes in the nation, both economically and demographically The Interstate Highway System was built during the Eisenhower administration as a way of moving truck based ICBMs around the country. But its construction also had a seminal impact on the economics and the demographics …

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    • … worse today. The turnpike itself wasn’t bad. Oh, there was all the usual stuff. The construction zones, the people slamming on their brakes at the sight of a cop car, the tractor trailers playing leap frog…you know, that kind of thing. Again, not too bad, just the usual b.s. And then…I tried to get …

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    • … and DeLallo’s Distribution Warehouse. Sony’s 1,200-acre plant currently employs 900 people. Accessible via U.S. Rte. 119, I-70 and the PA Turnpike, the campus also features four industrial parks, a state-of-the-art rail freight intermodal terminal. After acquiring the park’s first lot, Vale Vista Associates …

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    • ” Steven Sprague was 28-years old, married to his high school sweetheart Nikki and enjoying life as the father of a six-month old daughter Abigail. His life ended way too early on Thursday when he was working a construction project on the New Jersey Turnpike and he was hit by a car in which the driver …

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    • A Place to Be and Find Yourself in Others Have you ever wanted to find a place that was secluded, so removed from your personal life, that you could just relax and be yourself? That’s what I’ve found in Lititz, PA. I always liked the town from the moment I first visited it about 10 years ago …

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    • … Ahhh, nothing makes you want a smoke more than a baby. Actually, there might be some truth to that. For those unfamiliar with the PA Turnpike, it’s a perpetual construction zone. This means that you may, at times, find yourself creeping along in a single lane for twenty minutes or more. If you’re …

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    • … of there. Of course once you’re stuck past a certain point or can’t cross 4 lanes of stopped traffic you’re fucked anyway. 2) PA 100 South heading to route 202 closed completely due to construction, all traffic being detoured onto 30/30 bypass. I observed this heading north on Saturday morning so after getting …

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    • … transportation investment plan, the state’s Governor, Ed Rendell, is pushing for the lease of 500-miles of the PA Turnpike system. A consortium led by Spanish infrastructure company Abertis offered $12.8 billion back in May to lease the PA Turnpike for 75 years. Although the consortium had been …

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    • … in the area. (Maybe we will find something in PA or OH) We headed north & west to get away from the storm. What an experience on the New Jersey Turnpike as we got closer to New York! Drivers speed, cut in and out close & sharply, honk their horns and in one area they separate the cars from the trucks …




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