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Reporters Notebook: A Look At Drilling Traffic

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.

Comments

  • Car­los

    The traf­fic in that video does not seem that bad, maybe com­pared to what you are used to in Brad­ford County, but in Coal areas in SWPA, sit­ting behind sev­eral of those trucks full of coal has been a reg­u­lar occur­rence for years. Get over it. 

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