Text 8760, 46 rader
Skriven 2011-03-25 10:50:03 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 8730 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: williamsport 116
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 23 Mar 11  12:13:00 <=-

 ML>> valley walls are pretty steep.
 NB>> And only steeper now, as the route is being transmogrified into an
 NB>> Interstate...

 ML> Last time I went to Elmira-Corning from Williamsport (there
 ML> being several alternative airports when IPT is not running
 ML> or is inconvenient), I noticed that. They're doing massive
 ML> land moving along that route. I was wondering if the traffic
 ML> justified the effort - until we were stuck behind a slow
 ML> semitrailer for many miles.

It's been an ongoing project for a few decades, whose progress I've been
following on my various and sundry trips through the area...  Some parts
of the project have been more needed (and appreciated) than others, of
course...  I've always liked the fact that certain parts of the road are
"blue highway" material, with the expressway parts allowing a chance to
get past the really obnoxiously slow traffic.  I can't wait for them to
get to the part, though, to bypass the Sunbury-Selinsgrove stretch. 
That's my least favorite type of driving, 3 lanes (or more) each
direction of stop and go traffic with malls on either side... The whole
route may not have the traffic, say, of Boston or Philly etc, but it is
well utilized by both locals along the way, and travellers going through
to points north or south, and/or to connect to such east-west routes as
I80... It is the primary north-south route through central PA.

 ML>> Not so terrible, except that they cancelled the flight today
 ML>> as well, claiming XWX, which I believe is a lie. I'm half
 NB>> Abundance of caution, certainly...

 ML> I got the word from the ground staff at IPT that there were
 ML> only 2 pax (counting me) booked on the first flight that was
 ML> cancelled. No excuse given for the second, but they didn't
 ML> claim weather, so I imagine there wasn't.

(Didn't you just say above that it was* for weather?)  I guess I can see
cancelling for lack of passengers, except that that could backfire with
people not even trying to schedule there... unless it's the only game in
town...?   One would think they'd just go to smaller planes...

ttyl        neb

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