I paid toll for this?

Taking a short break from the war stuff to talk about engineering. Sexy, huh?

Included herein are pictures of perhaps the worst limited-access highway in America (that I've traveled upon)--the Pennsylvania Turnpike. When driving east from Ohio it's sharply amazing how horrible this road is compared to the superior engineering evident on the Ohio Turnpike.

Frankly, it's criminal the citizenry must still pay to drive on this mess. I had to fork over 11 dollars for the privilege of slowing down for phantom construction zones, lumbering up steep grades or negotiating sharp curves. Based on the conditions between the Ohio state line and the Breezewood exit there is only one decent, modern segment worth driving, considering the hefty surcharge.


One has to wonder where all the money dumped in the baskets is going. The highway needs major infrastructure improvements, such as realigning curves, widening lanes, or reducing grades, which is certainly not lost on everyone. However, one sign had the audacity to say, "your toll dollars at work--finished one year ahead of schedule". Uh guys, the highway has been around 66 years.

Hopefully they'll get their act together soon, but to this traveler it seemed a rather fine example of a unionized self-serving bureaucracy at work.