Does anyone know the purpose of the road seen here (https://goo.gl/maps/uGGSLqFWFr62) around the north side of York Haven, PA? It seems to be unnamed, but is a well-built modern road with standard signage and even a 35 mph posted speed limit. Each end features gates and a sign saying Private Road, Authorized Vehicles Only (https://goo.gl/maps/FeZ3HafjNu62). A short segment in the middle was made into a realigned portion of SR 1015/River Drive.
It seems like it would logically serve as a bypass for the hilly and narrow section of PA 382 coming in from the west, but isn't signed as such, nor is it open to public traffic. It doesn't seem to serve anything like a PennDOT stockpile, or a warehouse or something else truck-heavy. I tried various Google searches and couldn't find anything.
According to York County Property records, most of the property that the road runs is a strip of land owned by Talen Generation LLC, a power generation company. It looks like it may be a route for coal trucks to the power generation plant on Brunner Island.
Quote from: dfilpus on June 18, 2018, 05:48:59 PM
According to York County Property records, most of the property that the road runs is a strip of land owned by Talen Generation LLC, a power generation company. It looks like it may be a route for coal trucks to the power generation plant on Brunner Island.
That makes sense, considering it seems like it'd be hard from trucks to get there from the west otherwise. I think it'd make way more sense to just cede it to PennDOT and reroute PA 382 onto it.
re:PA 382 in York Haven
It always bothered me that PA 181 North ends and becomes PA 382 North at the same intersection. (A few other PA routes end simulatenously in this area as well - PA 921 and PA 24 in Mount Wolf, PA 425 and PA 124 in Craley)
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