[PRCo] Re: Another trip

[rogertrolley.1 at juno.com]

To respond to Derrick et al, there is no sign at the 81-76 interchange  telling you that 81 goes to Scranton !! Just a sign telling you it goes to Harrisburgh ,nothing else! Duh ,thats where the interchange is ! And since my interstate map was a poor one,purchased before the trip, I was sol until buying another version. A Pennsylvania State map would have been nice, but found none at the rest stop east of Pittsburgh. The other problem out there is the wall of trucks you are passing and you MISS THE REST STOP SIGN that is placed a 1/4 mile before it !! The other gripe is,since driving the PT in 1958, the road is still a 2 lane bottleneck,except for the truck climbing lanes near P-burgh. Never widened on the bumper to bumper section from Harrisburgh to Phily!! What do they do with all the tolls they collect ??? New Bridges I guess from the multiple construction zones encountered all across the country!! Generally every 20 or 30 miles ! Or new paving. The trucks destroy the right hand lane so I usually drove in the left lane until a looming speeder showed up in the rear view mirror,and there were a lot of those! Penn. trooper bagged one on a curve thru an underpass,parked just beyond it with just the sensor aimed back at us !! GOTCHYA !!  cheers  rogertrolley