PROPOSED REVAMP OF BREEZEWOOD TURNPIKE INTERCHANGE COULD AFFECT BUSINESSES

The proposed revamp of the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Breezewood interchange will likely take a toll on businesses that have built up around the highway’s connections to Interstate 70 and Route 30.  The changes are expected to make the trip more convenient for the more than 2.5 million motorists who pass through that area of Bedford County each year.  But for business owners and workers along Breezewood’s short section of Route 30, the commercial area will no longer have a captive audience of travelers who are switching between the turnpike and the leg of Interstate 70 that heads south into Maryland.