Bottle neck Heaven!! (Springfield, Broomall, Swarthmore: design, building, county)

[Mr. Opinion]

Am I the only person that noticed that the Blue Route(I476) is a Sprite Bottle?

Question 1: Why would you allow Traffic from 95 both from the South and The North bound lanes to enter a 2 lane road way? Why?

Macdade to Broomall is the top of the Bottle!!(2 Lanes)
I'm not sure if this is true! But I heard Springfield Township voted for 2 lanes only! Is this true? WHYYYYYYY?

Sorry folks! For Complaining!!

PennDot Please create another lane for the Blue Route entering the Blue Route from 95!

[BPP1999]

Because the anti-highway contingent in Swarthmore and Media didn't want a 6-lane interstate going through their precious country communities. It's classic PA, actually. You are absolutely right; this bottleneck is ridiculous. PennDot caved to the vocal minority instead of doing what was right. Actually, I think a PA Supreme Court order mandated that the 4-lane segment was to be built as a compromise after decades of fighting.

I do think it's interesting that most of the bridges in the 2-lane section (especially the bigger bridges at the Route 1 and Media bypass interchanges) seem to be wide enough so all they need is for the 3rd lane on each side to be re-striped. Hopefully PennDot, the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, and Delaware County itself will finally wake up and realize that the only solution to fitting 6 lanes of traffic onto a 4-lane highway is to widen it.

I always find it funny that PA is so anti-highway and anti-change, but then we sit around and lament the loss of young, educated people. Maybe there's a correlation between our crappy infrastructure and our low job growth.

[bryson662001]

Penndot specializes in designing and building bottlenecks. It's one of the things they do best.