It was cars as far as the eye could see Monday morning in Monroe County.
The Pennsylvania 500 was rained out Sunday. It was moved to Monday. Take all that race traffic, and add it to normal weekday commuter/business/resident traffic, and you have an absolute nightmare. See picture above.
Pocono Raceway has a huge economic impact on the area. Racing puts us on the map two weekends a year. It's great.
However, Route 115, and even Interstate 80 aren't built for all that traffic.
Should the state build new roads for two weekends a year? Not in the current economic climate, and maybe not ever.
Should the track kick in some cash, in addition to taxes. Possibly and probably.
Do people want a superhighway running through a normally peaceful area? Absolutely not.
It is the perfect storm in more than one respect-- a perfect storm of events that caused all that traffic on a Monday morning, and a perfect storm of reasons why there's unlikely to be an easy solution.
