We don't need one.

So many left-lane campers between Quakertown and the Tunnel in particular. Fn annoying.

That's a sustainable skylight.

Yes why yes it is. Crappy legislature plus 2nd highest gas tax, most expensive toll road, truly bad roads and a landscape filled with warehousing, billboards and roadside trash.

Just be glad that you don't have our insanely over-paid, underworked full-time legislature here in PA that approved automatic raises so they never have to vote for one again.

I would take your state legislature in a heartbeat.

I like calling them grundsaus.

My old high school's cross-country course . . . lot of memories there.

I'm thinking your second choice. Idk that the city or state are capable of or willing to undertake that heavy lift.

City Hall and Harrisburg to the rescue?

I just can't picture what that looks like.

That's a problem along the creeks where I work too. The floods are seeming to help spread it.

The EAB lives nearly all its life cycle out of sight under the bark so out of sight, out of mind unlike the flashy SLF and all of its instar phases. Human beings and their governments tend to react to that which they see whether or not it merits it

But it really hasn't where I am and I work in the area where it's been the longest. They're almost non-existent now and except for a few non-native Tree of Heaven and non-native types of cultivated grapevine, there hasn't been much plant mortality in the couple years that SLF boomed before predators figured them out.

It made little difference where I work. The predators had it figured out less than two years after SLF arrived. The quarantine has little to do with it as people either are unaware or unwilling to follow it and are moving the creature around at will.

Nature represents the final determiner and sometimes moves very fast in doing so.

The state has worried so much about SLF and yet didn't seem nearly as concerned about EAB which has cost an inordinate amount of money and put the electrical grid and people's physical safety at fat greater risk.

I work in forestry virtually at the original epicenter of SLF and they're virtually not seen anymore there. I've observed a huge number of native predators going after this virtually defenseless protein packs.

And their damage was very limited even at the height of their boom.

Reality is that the quarantine won't really do much just like the Emerald Ash Borer one didn't. In the end predators will emerge in the new areas SLF infests and control the numbers.

I'm not surprised that happened here in Monroe, lol.

So true. I try to get them out due to the mosquito-breeding issue and West Nile virus.

Thank you and the same to you.

I was blown away by how clean Vermont was when I visited. Actually Kentucky was pretty decent too.

Personally, I hate the muddy water-filled tires loaded with mosquito larvae the worst of all.

I was a part of an Adopt-a-Highway in Bucks County and I now work for a Township public works department in the same area. Cleaning up roadside trash and outright full-scale dumping represents a significant part of my job.

The trash is relentless, the drivers reckless and, in addition to the slobs, a lot more comes off top-loading trash trucks and blows from curbside residential trash and recycling cans than people would guess.

In any case, working in Bucks County, growing up in the Lehigh Valley, and living in the Poconos, I can see we are particularly trashy as a state. I've been to a number of other states with a fraction of the roadside trash that we have.

I can honestly tell you PennDOT doesn't have the staffing or budget to do much more than they already do.

So sort of the red carpet treatment for illegal parkers then?

In all seriousness, a good idea even if only a few oblivious drivers get the idea.

You're preaching the choir there, dude. No argument there.

I've wanted that to happen for his tribe's sake a long time now and for the town to go back to it's original name of Mauch Chunk.

I also think the downtown is overrated, the parking's terrible, we get too many tourists, and the borough's mayor and council are kind of incompetent.

However, the surrounding region's parks are outstanding and it's a nice area to live outside of JT.

I can't think of any town a hundred plus miles from me that I'd spend time hating on though.

JFC, relax dude. OP asked specifically about mountain biking and kayaking and Lehigh Gorge State Park's Lehigh River is specifically well-known for it''s whitewater rafting and kayaking in the eastern half of the state as well as a lot of trail for cycling.

It was strictly to help OP and give them an eastern PA alternatives since tell me how much scenic kayaking and mountain biking is there in Morgantown?

Otherwise, I wouldn't have generally even mentioned it since it's not exactly like we need additional tourists here.

I live near Jim Thorpe and mountain bike. Honestly you'd probably be better off in the Carbon County area by what you're describing. Relatively easy access to Philly by Turnpike from either the Mahoning Valley or 903 exit.

Absolutely, and we need to pour on the assistance to Ukraine to the very end. No relenting.

Much appreciated!

I'd love to push the snow up there at 2 am far more than this salt-infused sleet/glaze cement we tend to get here these days, lol.

No problem. Last I heard, it was going to be closed through the majority of next summer.

Business owners in Delaware Water Gap borough are understandably pissed since it had just reopened after an earlier road collapse that required like 400+ segments of Jersey barrier to reinforce the roadway.

Apparently getting approval from the National Park Service to work on the cliff face in the Rec Area's going to take PennDOT some time.