Updating Thruway Service Areas

[Otto Yamamoto]

The New York Times: Must We Gentrify the Rest Stop?.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/nyregion/thruway-rest-stops-gentrification.html

[Ted$8roadFan]

I'm somewhat surprised to see this in the New York Times, an institution which if anything represents the kind of changes that are coming to the Thruway rest areas.

[webny99]

There's been plenty of discussion of these upgrades in the Thruway thread.

I thought the existing service areas were fine and would much rather the funds went towards widening select sections of the Thruway. But I guess upgrades were going to be needed eventually (maybe in a decade or two) so I'm not going to complain.

[vdeane]

I don't think Applegreen would have paid for widening the Thruway.

[Otto Yamamoto]

I'm somewhat surprised to see this in the New York Times, an institution which if anything represents the kind of changes that are coming to the Thruway rest areas.

I was surprised that they even acknowledge the Thruway exists. Roads are for proles.

[Ted$8roadFan]

I'm somewhat surprised to see this in the New York Times, an institution which if anything represents the kind of changes that are coming to the Thruway rest areas.

I was surprised that they even acknowledge the Thruway exists. Roads are for proles.

It was written by their Metro columnist; it wasn't a news story.