Reporters Notebook: A Look At Drilling Traffic

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

October 25, 2011 | 6:38 PM

Ask a Bradford or Tioga County resident what his biggest gripe with natural gas drilling is, and he’ll likely tell you traffic.
Two-lane highways are clogged with heavy trucks hauling water, sand, equipment and gravel. People regularly build up to an hour of additional travel time into their schedule, to compensate for time spent behind trucks.
If you haven’t seen the traffic before, here’s what it looks like. I shot this video while stuck behind two slow trucks, on my way up to Canton, Bradford County yesterday.