An infamous interchange in Breezewood, Pa., forces drivers through a roughly 2.5 mile-long detour. But redesigning it could cripple the town’s economy, which has come to depend on the visitors. The route connects Washington DC and Baltimore with Pittsburgh and goes all the way through the Midwest. If you take that traffic away, what happens to the town?
WSJ explains why it’s a traffic chokepoint and spoke with a transportation engineer on how to fix it.
Chapters:
0:00 Infamous traffic chokepoint
1:06 Building a cloverleaf
2:25 Building ramps
3:26 Why was it built like this?
4:40 Make Breezewood more
7:49 What’s next?
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