How do you fix a stroad?

Re:How do you fix a stroad? by JacobDotVI on Friday December 10, 2021 @08:42AM (#29509693)

> Has anyone ever put a picture of a stroad up as art/instagram etc like you see with downtown NYC, Paris, small european villages, shanghai, rural mountain towns, old downtowns in America etc?

Yes, but in a different way than I believe your question implies. Edward Burtynsky produced an amazing series of photographs centered around the automobile and in his words, how it "represent[ed] not only freedom, but also something much more conflicted."

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/oil

One of the most internet famous images from that series is of a stroad in Breezewood, PA:

https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/news-hub/2019/7/25/what-inte...

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Re:How do you fix a stroad? by crispyambulance on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:20AM (#29510125)

To be fair, Breezewood is in the middle of a mountain range. Alternative routes are much longer or involve going around the geography. As a result it gets A LOT of traffic going to/from DC-area, Philly, Pittsburgh.

It's a pity that the only businesses that can cluster around there are just dull chains and yet another bleak HMS-Host-operated rest stop.

If any of you are going through there and have time to get off the PA Turnpike for a while for a meal (or hotel stay), a nice choice would be Bedford PA. It's ~20 miles west of Breezewood. It's an cute old-timey mainstreet town that hasn't been ravaged by rustbelt depression. There are good restaurants there. The Omni Bedford Springs Resort is a nice hotel with a great spa.

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Re:How do you fix a stroad? by aidenn0 on Friday December 10, 2021 @04:24PM (#29515612)

Breezewood is the way it is for historical reasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breezewood,_Pennsylvania#Unusu...

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