Looks Like Interstate 95 Has A Gap Once Again

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I don't know how many of you are also driving enthusiasts/highway geeks, I am, and if you didn't know this already, Interstate 95 up until recently had never been a continuous highway! In Pennsylvania it would go up to I-295, and on the New Jersey side it would simply end somewhere along the NJ Turnpike, and a driver would have to take I-195 and I-295 to connect between the two. Decades later, sometime in the 2000s, one of the bridges over the Delaware River was completed and finally connected the two I-95s, making it a continuous Interstate. Now, a tanker truck fire from an accident that burned directly underneath an overpass carrying I-95 in Philadelphia, caused that section of I-95 to collapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Interstate_95_highway_collapse

Looks like now it's an incomplete highway again. They said it could take months to rebuild, but my question is this: Why on Earth wasn't the Interstate 95 Designation placed aling the entire length of the New Jersey Turnpike to begin with?? The Jersey Turnpike is the fastest, shortest, and more mainline route between NYC and Delaware and Points North/South, so why did the highway in Philadelphia get the I-95 Designation? Anyone in their right mind just stays on the Turnpike as a thru traveler, rather than go out of the way and endure traffic in Philadelphia! 

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Maybe it would've been better if you posted this in a geoguessr community instead of here in chess.com forums

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