‘Northeast Corridor’ Archive

I-95’s Maryland service areas to be rebuilt

Two I-95 travel plazas to be rebuilt in revenue-sharing plan | Gallery – The Sun
Chesapeake and Maryland House centers will undergo $56 million redesign; profits will be shared with state
The two-year, $56 million project to rebuild Maryland House and Chesapeake House as a public-private partnership with Areas USA was approved Monday by the Maryland Transportation [...]

D.C.’s Union Station changes holiday model train displays

WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of my favorite Christmas season traditions is visiting Union Station. After many years hosting a model railroad display from the Norwegian embassy, Union Station has partnered with MTH Trains of Columbia, Md. for several new displays. From the press release:
The model train displays seen in Union Station are made up [...]

Penn State Nittany Lions 14 TEMPLE OWLS 10

PHILADELPHIA — Prior to kickoff yesterday, the Temple Owls played the theme from “Rocky” a movie about an underdog Philadelphia boxer who goes the distance against the heavyweight champion but loses.
Temple followed that script yesterday — they went the distance, but lost in the end.
Penn State traveled to the city of brotherly love for its [...]

I-95: EZ Pass only lanes now open on the Delaware Turnpike

 

I-95 high-speed E-ZPass lanes open at Newark toll plaza – The News Journal (New Castle, Del.)
A nightmare of a construction project along Interstate 95 has been completed.
The Delaware Turnpike toll plaza near Newark now has two dedicated left lanes for cars with EZ Pass — drivers with the transponder no longer have to slow down!
Last [...]

National Train Day at Union Station recap

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chances are if you have a little boy, you have a big rail fan in your house. That is certainly the case with us. When he attended a day care in Franconia, we used to drive past two rail lines and the Blue Line Metro in southern Alexandria daily and an appearance [...]

New Yorkers don’t like Clearview street signs

New Yorkers outraged as bureaucrats order city to change lettering on every single street sign – NY Daily News
$27 million to change NYC signs from all-caps – NY Post
All street signs in New York City need to be converted to mixed-case Clearview font by 2018. Steve Anderson of NYCRoads.com summed it up by saying “the [...]

NPR I-95 series looks at Delaware travel plaza, Maine

That’s No Rest Stop, It’s A ‘Travel Plaza’ – NPR
The second weekend of I-95: The Road Most Traveled features a look at the Delaware Welcome Center Travel Plaza that was recently reopened. The old service plaza was pretty bad and I only went to it a few times over the years. Typically, if I [...]

NPR special series focuses on I-95

Over the next couple of weekends, NPR is running a series called I-95: The Road Most Traveled. I-95 is the busiest interstate corridor with 100 million people living along it. I drive on about 3 miles of it every week day and have spent countless hours cruising up to New Jersey (though not much lately) [...]

Eli Manning draws First Blood on both NYC tabloids

New York Giants QB Eli Manning got destroyed in last night’s preseason game (played in New Jersey) against the New York Jets. He christened the artificial turf at New Meadowlands Stadium with blood gushing from a massive head wound that needed a dozen stitches. The tabloids both had the same though with their backpage headline.
Here [...]

Make way for ducklings

BOSTON — I was not that familiar with Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey, but I was informed by the Ombudman’s attorney that it “the” Boston children’s book. Since I have a son, I decided to get it, though I wound up buying it outside of Boston in the Curious George bookstore which is [...]

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