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Pennsylvania laughs in Amish
Literally hell on Earth. I had to drive through Pennsylvania a few times in my life, specifically that part where the interstate stops being an interstate for like 3 blocks.
I'm not making this up. The interstate stops being an interstate, forces you to go through this town built for and around everyone being forced to stop there, then you get back on the next interstate.
But all along the way, for my entire life it has been under construction. Iirc, it goes down to one lane, and it takes like an hour to get through it.
Honorable mentions: I-4 in Orlando, and 66 West in Northern Virginia, fucking awful, they will always be under construction.
Sounds like you're talking about Breezewood, PA where I-70 connects to the PA Turnpike, but there isn't a direct connection. It's an infamous stretch of highway with the truck stops there pretty much providing all the jobs in the area. Seriously, there's like nothing else there.
Yes, Breezewood, what a fucking nightmare. Sweet username.
If people would stop building mcmansions way out in Front Royal and Winchester and commuting into DC, we wouldn't have to add a lane and rearrange it every two years.
I tell you brother, 66 was fucked before anyone would even consider living in FroRo. They had lead in the ground from a ... I wanna say paint factory, or parachutes maybe or maybe paint for parachutes ... That was there in WW2. (They say it's better now, but I'd never live there)
When they redid the lanes, but only made it go to Manassas, I mean that was just a big desperate gesture to keep all the richtards happy living out that way.
Perhaps you're right, but NoVA is still one place where you can make consistent good money. So there will never not be a draw, and they will never stop building the area up. Except for when COVID happened, I think some parts are still struggling to bounce back from that.