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Mor_Tearach t1_itd4v69 wrote

We had to do a round trip up 78, from Dauphin to 78 through Berks and into Bethlehem. One of the most gorgeous drives PA had- now warehouse after warehouse after WAREHOUSE. Bethlehem? Outskirts are simply shredded. It's heartbreaking.

Then the first one went up in our area, around Millersburg. Luckily a lot of the valley is owned by Amish who simply never sell- so some will be saved.

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SilverVixen23 t1_iteq6rn wrote

I'm in the Bethlehem area and it's absolutely disgusting to say the least regarding all the beautiful fields and woods that have been destroyed in just the past few years to make room for such ugly structures. Just in the ~3 miles around my house, 9 warehouses, two non-luxury hotels, two housing developments, and a huge CarMax have been built over what used to be fields/farmland/woodlands in the past 10 years (and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head). That's also not even including any other places like restaurants, gas stations, or stores, or the other eye sores being built outside my home radius.

Seems like everywhere I look now there's either concrete warehouses or $600k cookie-cutter houses.

Edit: oh, and did I mention that half of those warehouses aren't even occupied/owned?

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Mor_Tearach t1_iteskzl wrote

We saw that! Every time we drove up ( rats, forgot the name of the road, turn left at Waffle House after getting off 78, left going out above town ) there were the old churches, cemeteries, all the pretty stuff we knew with those huge monstrosities still going up- never saw one with a car in the ugly parking lot.

Bethlehem was so incredibly beautiful and it was impressive how well maintained the old Moravian history was preserved- loved the place. It was bad enough seeing 78 lined with those things, seeing Bethlehem itself destroyed was wrenching as hell.

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Smith801 t1_itexhpr wrote

Driving down 33 to get to 22 used to be beautiful as well. Now all you see are warehouses in the distance…really sad.

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Mor_Tearach t1_itg2vaj wrote

It's worth a literal funeral. I've always considered PA one of the loveliest states we have because it was. Then I guess some scout for one of these landscape murdering companies saw the ' commercial ' possibilities and called his landscape slaughtering buddies.

Before anyone says ' but jobs ', as has been pointed out we have a plethora of already decimated sites near cities where one of those things would actually be an improvement on miles of deserted, rotting industrial sites. Steelton for one. There's others. So I don't get insisting on carving up what's left of beautiful landscape.

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Smith801 t1_itg4wip wrote

Agreed. PA is a beautiful state as I grew up in the Poconos. These jobs aren’t even jobs people want…warehouse jobs are not long term as it’s physically demanding on the body.

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Mor_Tearach t1_ithiq9m wrote

I have a feeling one day there's going to be some huge investigation, " Bribes, payoffs and corruption, why PA was butchered into warehouse sites ".

Poconos is quintessential PA pretty. We're lucky to have SO much. Wish they'd leave it alone.

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Smith801 t1_itino8d wrote

I hope that day will come soon but I’m not optimistic.

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IamSauerKraut t1_itgz6gv wrote

That drive up 78 by itself is painful with all the construction and truck traffic. Do those rigs really need to beside-by-side drag racing up the hills at 40 mph with their 4-ways on? Those of us behind them already know they are going slow so why bother with the 4-ways? And the combos swinging side-to-side across the lanes. Do those drivers not know how to handle those rigs??

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Mor_Tearach t1_ithhp64 wrote

35 years ago my parents were in one those accidents on 78 in a construction zone- the ones where a semi hit them from behind, squished them into the semi infront. The thing is, it was right around one of the same spots STILL under construction. Hopefully there's an explanation, 78 has been under construction since the American Revolution or something ( before anyone jumps on that it's a joke ).

I might really HOW?

And wow no, no one knows how to drive through there. Then they stopped patrolling it . Cameras take a photo and send speeders a ticket.

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