Welcome to the Roadscapes Wednesday segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Roadscapes Wednesday will feature roads and infrastructure related topics. Geek Alabama Editor / Publisher Nathan Young is often called the “road geek” for a good reason, Nathan loves roads and loves talking about roads!

The interstate system was meant to have the best possible routing from city to city, using urban planning and engineering to create good routings and interchanges in cities aswell as rural areas. As some of us know, this planning process ended up being a bit flawed. In the 50s, 60s, and even 70s, interstates were routed through downtowns and lower-income neighborhoods, and massive interchanges were created.

At the time, they believed this to be the best possible plan, but its become problematic as some highways divided cities, and some interchanges were either rendered useless, or put in terrible locations. One of these terrible locations is in central Pennsylvania, where one awful planning decisions resulted in an entire new community springing into existence, This is the story of Breezewood, Pennsylvania and how it came to be.

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