I-95/Penna Turnpike Interchange

[jeffandnicole]

Should we not start a subtopic titled DOT Regions?

Not that I mind it here as its good stuff but it is kind of derailed after 7 posts away from the OP.

The new I-95/Turnpike interchange should be a part of the new District 7.

2 miles of road deserves its own district?

[Roadsguy]

Should just renumber District 12 to District 7 and bam, problem solved: 11 districts numbered 1 through 11.

Yes, but then 7 would not be adjacent to 6 and 8, as it should be. Right now, it's easy (despite the absence of 7) to follow the logical clockwise numbering.

District 7 is reserved for the PA Turnpike when it is absorbed into PennDOT. 

Coincidentally, Turnpike roads are numbered in the PennDOT system beginning with a 7 already.

I agree with splitting off the thread, though.

[MNHighwayMan]

Should we not start a subtopic titled DOT Regions?

Not that I mind it here as its good stuff but it is kind of derailed after 7 posts away from the OP.

The new I-95/Turnpike interchange should be a part of the new District 7.

2 miles of road deserves its own district?

'Twas a (bad) joke trying to tie in the off-topic district bits with the actual topic.

[Roadwarriors79]

Five years eh? What did the NJ Turnpike Authority get done during the same amount of time? (hint: more then an interchange and some signing)

When it comes to reasonably big highway projects, it seems that PTC operates with the following  speeds:

1. Slow
2. Slower
3. Slowest
4. Stop

Give them a little credit. From Congress dictating where I-95 should be rerouted in PA and NJ to two ramps being built to close the I-95 Gap is going on 36 YEARS now. I'm just wondering if something else will happen to delay this opening from "Fall 2018" (hopefully).

[cpzilliacus]

Five years eh? What did the NJ Turnpike Authority get done during the same amount of time? (hint: more then an interchange and some signing)

When it comes to reasonably big highway projects, it seems that PTC operates with the following  speeds:

1. Slow
2. Slower
3. Slowest
4. Stop

Give them a little credit. From Congress dictating where I-95 should be rerouted in PA and NJ to two ramps being built to close the I-95 Gap is going on 36 YEARS now. I'm just wondering if something else will happen to delay this opening from "Fall 2018" (hopefully).

Last I read, PTC says the ramps will open to complete I-95 on August 25, 2018.

[theroadwayone]

Five years eh? What did the NJ Turnpike Authority get done during the same amount of time? (hint: more then an interchange and some signing)

When it comes to reasonably big highway projects, it seems that PTC operates with the following  speeds:

1. Slow
2. Slower
3. Slowest
4. Stop

Give them a little credit. From Congress dictating where I-95 should be rerouted in PA and NJ to two ramps being built to close the I-95 Gap is going on 36 YEARS now. I'm just wondering if something else will happen to delay this opening from "Fall 2018" (hopefully).

Last I read, PTC says the ramps will open to complete I-95 on August 25, 2018.

If that turns out to be right, we should all celebrate August 25, from here on out, as "I-95 Day," remembering the day our longest north-south interstate became one route from Florida to Maine.

[PHLBOS]

Give them a little credit. From Congress dictating where I-95 should be rerouted in PA and NJ to two ramps being built to close the I-95 Gap is going on 36 YEARS now.

Truth be told that particular I-95 gap existed much longer than that.  As a matter of fact, 36 years ago, there still was another gap along I-95 (although a much shorter one... roughly 2 miles) that still existed in Peabody, MA.  That one would be fully closed circa 1988 with the completion of the I-95/MA 128 interchange.

[jeffandnicole]

Give them a little credit. From Congress dictating where I-95 should be rerouted in PA and NJ to two ramps being built to close the I-95 Gap is going on 36 YEARS now.

Truth be told that particular I-95 gap existed much longer than that.  As a matter of fact, 36 years ago, there still was another gap along I-95 (although a much shorter one... roughly 2 miles) that still existed in Peabody, MA.  That one would be fully closed circa 1988 with the completion of the I-95/MA 128 interchange.

I-95 wasn't completed in Philly until 1985, and north of Miami until 1987.

So, once you start factoring in the other gaps, it's *only* taken 31 years for I-95 to be fully completed as one route.

[Rothman]

36 years ago?  1982?  I don't think the gap north of Freeport, ME on I-95 was completed back then (now I-295).

[Beltway]

Truth be told that particular I-95 gap existed much longer than that.  As a matter of fact, 36 years ago, there still was another gap along I-95 (although a much shorter one... roughly 2 miles) that still existed in Peabody, MA.  That one would be fully closed circa 1988 with the completion of the I-95/MA 128 interchange.

I-95 wasn't completed in Philly until 1985, and north of Miami until 1987.
So, once you start factoring in the other gaps, it's *only* taken 31 years for I-95 to be fully completed as one route.

North Carolina in 1980, Virginia in 1982, and Maryland in 1985.

[KEVIN_224]

I don't think it was a gap in Falmouth, ME. I-95 would be via the Falmouth Spur, then north on today's I-295. These days the spur is unsigned I-495.

[PHLBOS]

36 years ago?  1982?  I don't think the gap north of Freeport, ME on I-95 was completed back then (now I-295).

I believe that the then-I-95 gap in Maine was in Freeport itself... between current I-295 Exits 17 & 20.  That missing piece was completed sometime during the 1990s.

I don't think it was a gap in Falmouth, ME. I-95 would be via the Falmouth Spur, then north on today's I-295. These days the spur is unsigned I-495.

See above, the then-I-95 gap was in Freeport; well north of Falmouth.

[Alps]

Five years eh? What did the NJ Turnpike Authority get done during the same amount of time? (hint: more then an interchange and some signing)

When it comes to reasonably big highway projects, it seems that PTC operates with the following  speeds:

1. Slow
2. Slower
3. Slowest
4. Stop

Give them a little credit. From Congress dictating where I-95 should be rerouted in PA and NJ to two ramps being built to close the I-95 Gap is going on 36 YEARS now. I'm just wondering if something else will happen to delay this opening from "Fall 2018" (hopefully).

Last I read, PTC says the ramps will open to complete I-95 on August 25, 2018.

Who's organizing this meet?

[briantroutman]

^ If there's interest, I'll volunteer. This would be my first time hosting a meet–how many would be interested in attending? Provided that at least a few are interested, I'll start a thread for it.

[jeffandnicole]

^ If there’s interest, I’ll volunteer. This would be my first time hosting a meet—how many would be interested in attending? Provided that at least a few are interested, I’ll start a thread for it.

If you have it opening weekend or the weekend after (Labor Day weekend) I won't be around, but I can suggest another nearby project that's so typical Jersey: The conversion of the White Horse Circle to a semi-roundabout (I believe not all entries will have to yield, preventing it from being a true roundabout).

[Alps]

^ If there's interest, I'll volunteer. This would be my first time hosting a meet–how many would be interested in attending? Provided that at least a few are interested, I'll start a thread for it.

Start the thread and they will come.

[qguy]

^ If there's interest, I'll volunteer. This would be my first time hosting a meet–how many would be interested in attending? Provided that at least a few are interested, I'll start a thread for it.

Start the thread and they will come.

Count my son (roadsguy) and me in. [Insert disclaimer text regarding dates, factors beyond our control, etc., etc., here. ]

[Roadsguy]

^ If there's interest, I'll volunteer. This would be my first time hosting a meet–how many would be interested in attending? Provided that at least a few are interested, I'll start a thread for it.

If you have it opening weekend or the weekend after (Labor Day weekend) I won't be around, but I can suggest another nearby project that's so typical Jersey: The conversion of the White Horse Circle to a semi-roundabout (I believe not all entries will have to yield, preventing it from being a true roundabout).

The plans I see for it from a simple Google search have all approaches yielding.

[akotchi]

Count me in too.  Closest meet to my home.  I can help organize it, too.

[jeffandnicole]

^ If there's interest, I'll volunteer. This would be my first time hosting a meet–how many would be interested in attending? Provided that at least a few are interested, I'll start a thread for it.

If you have it opening weekend or the weekend after (Labor Day weekend) I won't be around, but I can suggest another nearby project that's so typical Jersey: The conversion of the White Horse Circle to a semi-roundabout (I believe not all entries will have to yield, preventing it from being a true roundabout).

The plans I see for it from a simple Google search have all approaches yielding.

Good. I think the original concept had a direction that didn't yield on entry.

[PHLBOS]

^ If there's interest, I'll volunteer. This would be my first time hosting a meet–how many would be interested in attending? Provided that at least a few are interested, I'll start a thread for it.

This project isn't too far from where I live either and I would be very much interested in attending (as long there is no other conflict(s) with the date selected).

[odditude]

^ If there's interest, I'll volunteer. This would be my first time hosting a meet–how many would be interested in attending? Provided that at least a few are interested, I'll start a thread for it.

This project isn't too far from where I live either and I would be very much interested in attending (as long there is no other conflict(s) with the date selected).

i may be back up in the area that weekend. as long as the time doesn't conflict, I'd be in.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

I have family over in the Main Line I can crash with, so if the meet is on for Aug. 25, I'm in.

[PHLBOS]

I have family over in the Main Line I can crash with, so if the meet is on for Aug. 25, I'm in.

I don't believe that the interchange ramps will be open that early.

[Hot Rod Hootenanny]

I have family over in the Main Line I can crash with, so if the meet is on for Aug. 25, I'm in.

I don't believe that the interchange ramps will be open that early.

Last I read, PTC says the ramps will open to complete I-95 on August 25, 2018.

Know something we don't, Chris? Or are you just being a Nervous Nelly in reference to the PTC?