Drivers who are tired of sitting in jammed traffic on the region’s busiest highway will soon be getting some relief.
PennDOT announced on Monday that it will be paving the entire Schuylkill River, from Reading to Philadelphia and opening it up to vehicular traffic.
“Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal recently passed by Congress, we now have the money we need to provide those extra highway lanes that people in this region have been craving for decades,” said Mel Median, PennDOT’s Director of Extremely Special Projects, at a specially-arranged press conference in front of the Philadelphia’s City Hall…