S8 Ep761: Jim McTague details significant traffic nightmares on Lancaster County's Route 30 due to bridge construction, provides observations on the local Amish community, and shares personal shopping anecdotes while reflecting on current regional economic market t
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 April 2026
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| 0:47.5 | I welcome Jim McTag, former Washington editor Barron's now a novelist and cartoonist in Lancaster County, |
| 0:56.4 | to help me understand a story that looks alarming in Lancaster County. The headline in the Penn Live Patriot News, Lancaster |
| 1:03.8 | County drivers are about to face a nightmare weekend on Route 30. Here's why. It's not enough |
| 1:10.2 | that gasoline is over $4 a gallon. It's not enough that |
| 1:13.7 | tourist season hasn't started. America wants a good economy, and that means Lancaster County is in the |
| 1:19.3 | lead for the Keystone State. Jim, I need to understand why this is a nightmare for the county. |
| 1:25.3 | They're going to do some road construction. Where? Good evening to you. |
| 1:29.1 | Good evening, John. First of all, the people here are cissies. I moved up here from Washington, D.C., |
| 1:34.0 | where it takes, so I used to take me 15 or 20 minutes to go six miles. So there's hardly any |
| 1:40.4 | traffic up here except this weekend. They're closing the intersection of Route 222, which is the |
| 1:49.1 | major thoroughfare from Reading to Lancaster, and that's where the Pennsylvania Turnpike |
| 1:54.5 | exit for Lancaster is, and Route 30, which is a major trucking and vehicle route from Philadelphia to York County and Gettysburg. |
| 2:06.7 | On average day, there are 160,000 vehicles that go through the intersection. |
| 2:14.5 | 30% of them trucks, and they're closing down the entire intersection this weekend to put up a bridge, which |
| 2:23.8 | means that those 160,000 vehicles, including the big trucks, are going to have to find |
| 2:29.8 | their way around secondary roads. |
| 2:32.6 | And it's just going to be a colossal nightmare a la Philadelphia, |
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