Why does Penn State have new roads rules for football?
Football fans from Altoona and points south and west heading to Beaver Stadium for today’s season opener with Akron will have an easier drive than they had last fall. Today’s game marks the first regular season game that all four lanes of Interstate 99 will be open from the Pennsylvania Turnpike north to State College. Last fall the northbound lanes were open to the Skytop area, where drivers were funneled onto two-lane Route 322 for a short distance – a 1.3 mile stretch between Skytop and the Mount Nittany Expressway. The southbound lanes of I-99 remained closed between the Mount Nittany Expressway and Port Matilda. “Hopefully it will make travel through that corridor easier and quicker,” PennDOT spokeswoman Marla Fannin said. “Last year, you could go into State College most of the way on four lanes, but the southbound lanes were not open until around Thanksgiving. Now that we have all four lanes open, that should help ease the traffic flow at the end of the game.” Geoff Rushton, Penn
Football fans from Altoona and points south and west heading to Beaver Stadium for today’s season opener with Akron will have an easier drive than they had last fall. Today’s game marks the first regular season game that all four lanes of Interstate 99 will be open from the Pennsylvania Turnpike north to State College. Last fall the northbound lanes were open to the Skytop area, where drivers were funneled onto two-lane Route 322 for a short distance – a 1.3 mile stretch between Skytop and the Mount Nittany Expressway. The southbound lanes of I-99 remained closed between the Mount Nittany Expressway and Port Matilda. “Hopefully it will make travel through that corridor easier and quicker,” PennDOT spokeswoman Marla Fannin said. “Last year, you could go into State College most of the way on four lanes, but the southbound lanes were not open until around Thanksgiving. Now that we have all four lanes open, that should help ease the traffic flow at the end of the game.” Geoff Rushton, Penn
