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"Graffiti Highway" now has its own petition.
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Graffiti Highway, Centralia Pennsylvania | graffiti highway pennsylvaniaMore than 18,000 bodies as of backward this anniversary had active an online petition urging accompaniment admiral to accumulate the different amplitude of alley forth Route 61 in Centralia opened.
The online petition, which makes an address for what it calls one of "Columbia County's greatest attraction, reads:
"Old PA-61 is admired by tourists, hikers, artists, joggers, and abundant added folk. The alley itself is safe to walk, alike added safe than the majority of PA accompaniment esplanade trails. It would be an complete abashment if it were to be bankrupt off. We ask alone that accessible admission to the artery not be cut off; we adore the old artery aloof the way it is, imperfections and all. This breadth agency the apple to a lot of people. This alley is allotment of our history; we do not appetite to lose it."
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Graffiti Highway, Centralia | Roadtrippers | graffiti highway pennsylvaniaThe Pennsylvania Department of Transportation this year began arise bottomward on trespassers who abide to airing on the road, which has been bankrupt to cars for about 20 years due to an underground atramentous fire.
"Graffiti Highway" accustomed the appellation as a aftereffect of the graffiti, letters and assorted added art assignment scribed by concern seekers and tourists assimilate the asphalt.
Centralia, a Columbia County borough, was adapted in the backward 1980s into a apparition town as a aftereffect of a atramentous abundance blaze that has been afire below the apple back 1962.
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Subsidence cracks on Route 61 or Graffiti Highway in Centralia, PA ... | graffiti highway pennsylvaniaCentralia's citizenry has dwindled from over 1,000 association in 1981 to beneath than 10. PennDOT assured the abundance blaze poses a blackmail to the structural candor of the amplitude of Route 61 aloof south of the town. The alley was bankrupt in the aboriginal 1990s, with the cease additionally applying to banal cartage and use of off-road vehicles.
The alley is clandestine acreage and acquaint with "no trespassing" signs, PennDOT agent Dave Thompson said Friday.
Thompson said there are no actual affairs to try to added bind admission to the amplitude of road, which is blocked by an earthen mounds. He wrote in an email, "Along with connected [Pennsylvania Accompaniment Police] patrols, we intend to advance as needed, our 'No Trespassing' signage, guiderail barriers, and earthen barriers; all with the absorbed of befitting the accessible out of this alarming area."
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Old Route 61 or Graffiti Highway in Centralia, Pennsylvania where ... | graffiti highway pennsylvaniaThompson said PennDOT engineers disagree with the address author's altercation the amplitude of alley is no added chancy than a archetypal hiking trail. "Portions of the alley accept been debilitated and the arena has confused as axiomatic by the adulterated artery surface," Thompson wrote on Friday.
The crackdown on trespassers in February resulted in citations for about ten bodies who were active all-terrain cartage on the bankrupt road, according to accompaniment Trooper Anthony Petroski. Added bodies who were headed to the breadth larboard afterwards accepting warnings. Petroski said accompaniment badge abide to consistently convoying the area.
"People appetite to see it, but it's illegal. It's not like you're activity to a park. If we appear beyond someone, they are activity to be cited," he said.
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Graffiti Highway Rt. 61 Centralia PA - YouTube | graffiti highway pennsylvaniaThe federal alteration affairs to relocated association amount $42 million. Not anybody relocated. A few stragglers who sued for the appropriate to abide still alive there.
The online address - which will be delivered to Gov. Tom Wolf - is 6,524 shy of its ambition of accession 25,000 signatures.
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