More 70 MPH Speed Limits Coming in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say the entire toll road system, including the sections that roll through urban areas, may get a speed limit boost to 70 mph next year.
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Pennsylvania Turnpike officials say the entire toll road system, including the sections that roll through urban areas, may get a speed limit boost to 70 mph next year.
A bridge over the PATCO rail tracks in Lindenwold has been closed for four weeks now, and it'll stay that way for a while longer.
A new 70 miles per hour speed limit is now in effect a day ahead of schedule along most of a nearly 100 mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike's main line.
Officials say between February 2010 and July 2011, Mickens, a former US Airways baggage claim handler at PHL, used his airport access card to smuggle hundreds of thousands of dollars in drug proceeds through the airport.
An early morning accident along the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension has caused a 7-mile back-up approaching Lansdale.
The Turnpike Commission says on Wednesday they will announce other sections where the speed limit will also be increased.
Former police dispatcher Dorian Parsley admitted she was the wreck chasers' inside connection, taking more than $35,000 in bribes.
The first Wawa store, which opened for business in 1964, in Delaware County, will be closing to make way for a new one, just up the road.
"We have over 140 show cars, lining five blocks of East Passyunk Avenue," notes Renee Gilinger, executive director of the East Passyunk Avenue Business Improvement District.
For Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, putting video cameras in new police cars became personal two years ago.
Throughout the day on Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission will gradually unveil signs posting a 70 mile an hour speed limit on most sections of the road between Morgantown in Berks County to the Blue Mountain Interchange in Cumberland County.
You can buy a bridge for as little as $1. Currently there are eleven for sale.
The new southbound Interstate 95 off-ramp at the Cottman Avenue (Route 73) Interchange in Philadelphia will open Friday morning, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced today.
It's not just a question of safety and security, Obama says. He sees it as a matter of keeping the country competitive with the rest of the world.
"People are calling and asking questions, but I have to say that there are not many cancellations at all," says a spokeswoman for one Philadelphia-based travel agency specializing in Israel travel.
