Interstate 76

And we were just talking about numbering schemes.

One of my favorite coincidences in the interstate highway system is that the Pennsylvania Turnpike was folded into the system, and that became I-76.

We just celebrated our 250th birthday last week.

So 1776, I-76, entirely coincidental.

Also coincidental that I-76... runs through Colorado, which became a state in 1876 and is the centennial state.

So fun trivia for you to take home there.

Most of the system was, and as it remains today, toll-free.

We have family in western Pennsylvania.

We travel out I-76 and we celebrate.

Celebrated a birthday this weekend.

Got a lot of good fellowship.

His name is Jay.

He was driving westbound on Interstate 76, and this is when he passed a big rig parked alongside of the road, and it was unusual because this trucker in this big rig started honking at him.

Now, the next thing Jay knows, he sees this dark, dark object floating in the middle of the highway.

And as Jay says, "My headlights hit it, and it was weird, like the light didn't really reflect off of it.

Uh-

Like my dad hits these Austin highways and he's like, "This is highways..." I'm like, "Dad, like this is 10 million times safer than I-76."

White guys, white guys in at, at a, past a certain age, you take them anywhere and they just like, they look around and just go like, "You believe this shit?"

[laughs]

It's scheduled to start at 9:00 tonight, go straight through 5:00 Monday morning.

I-76 is gonna be closed both ways.

Think outside the box.

Maybe go over to the Blue Route.

WE HAVE AN ALERT NOW FOR DRIVERS.

PARTS OF I-76 WILL BE CLOSED OVERNIGHT AS CREWS GET CLOSER TO DEMOLISHING THE MARKET STREET BRIDGE.

Starting tonight, the Schuylkill Expressway will close between the I-676 and 30th Street interchanges.

Those closures will run from 9 o'clock tonight until 5 o'clock tomorrow morning every night through Thursday.

Either the eastbound or the westbound lanes will close depending on where those crews are working.

Then both directions of I-76 will close next weekend.

October is Polish American Heritage Month, and Philadelphia is kicking off the celebration with the 93rd Annual Pulaski Day Parade today.

The parade steps off along the Ben Franklin Parkway, featuring marching groups, cultural organizations, and students from Polish language schools.

Tonight, an alert for drivers.

Parts of I-76 will be closed overnight starting this weekend.

This comes as crews get closer to demolishing the Market Street Bridge.

Starting Sunday, the Schuylkill Expressway will be closed between the I-676 and 30th Street interchanges.

So an auto intender in Philadelphia may behave vastly differently than an auto intender in Dothan, Alabama.

Two interstate highways, I-76 and I-95, cut through Philadelphia.

The closest interstate to Dothan, I-10, is 32 miles away.

Philadelphia still has some brick streets.