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Homeowners don't like the sound of no barriers
By Jeremy Rogoff
Inquirer Staff Writer
Maria Moyer has lived with the pounding din of the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension for seven years.
Her two-story Colonial on Boone Way is so close to traffic that the Towamencin Township resident has seen the grisly results of fatal crashes.
With the Turnpike Commission scheduled to add a third lane in each direction between the Mid-County and Lansdale interchanges, Moyer lives in dread.
The $250 million to $300 million expansion will upgrade the most heavily traveled four-lane stretch of turnpike in Pennsylvania. Turnpike officials have warned Moyer that she could lose almost her entire backyard - up to 25 feet - in the expansion, set to begin in earnest in 2011.
By Jeremy Rogoff
Inquirer Staff Writer
Maria Moyer has lived with the pounding din of the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension for seven years.
Her two-story Colonial on Boone Way is so close to traffic that the Towamencin Township resident has seen the grisly results of fatal crashes.
With the Turnpike Commission scheduled to add a third lane in each direction between the Mid-County and Lansdale interchanges, Moyer lives in dread.
The $250 million to $300 million expansion will upgrade the most heavily traveled four-lane stretch of turnpike in Pennsylvania. Turnpike officials have warned Moyer that she could lose almost her entire backyard - up to 25 feet - in the expansion, set to begin in earnest in 2011.