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Something Is Rotten In The State Of PennDOTThere was a meeting yesterday about the extension of Woodhaven Road, which is having a race against finding a use for the old Byberry Hospital for “project in the Far Northeast that will take longest to get done.” Woodhaven Road (PA Route 63) was “completed” in 1966. (So it’s beating Byberry.) It connects I-95 and the Boulevard. Its western end is at a small two-lane road, Evans Street, which dumps everyone onto Byberry Road in Somerton. If you’ve ever driven on Byberry Road in that area at any time besides, oh, 3 a.m., you’ll know that it’s possibly the most congested road in the world. And so there have been plans to extend Woodhaven Road to Bustleton Road, but naturally residents in the area have complaints, NIMBY, blah blah blah, you get the idea. They’ve come together in the Tri-County Coalition to fight it, and, like many community groups fighting the government, sometimes the rhetoric is a bit over-the-top:
Yes, clearly, there is no honor in this state agency with a faceless bureaucracy! There is no honor in retreat! We will not go down without a fight! Win this one for the gipper! Extension opponents blast PennDOT [Bucks County Courier Times] |
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This, along with the extension of the El (see Philly Skyline), and the renovation of the Byberry asylum will never happen. You gotta love the NE for successfully remaining in-but-not-socially-part-of Philadelphia for so long. If this gets done, I will buy every member of the Tri-County Coalition a beer (of course NE’s fav Miller Lite) at Beefseekers in Academy Plaza. Remember that place?