[PRCo] Re: west penn

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Sun Sep 16 20:54:03 EDT 2001


On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 tsquare at toad.net wrote:

> 
> Oh, gee! -- as it did not affect driver visability, the hump must 
> have been removed by some anti-traction nut to remove "painful" 
> memories.  Maybe it was some farmer trying to reclaim his land. 
> Or was it by the State preparing for an eventual widening of the 
> highway?  Otherwise, it must have been "make-work".  I'll miss it
> -- it was, from 1952, a "monument" to a lost traction system.

They've been working heavily through that stretch the last few years,
they've already been making the berms widers.

-D






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