Trashing the Blue Route
YOU KNOW HOW to add 40 minutes to a one-hour commute to work? Trying overturning a trash truck on northbound Rte. 476 in the middle of the morning rush hour. I was just about at Conshohocken on the Schuylkill Expressway about 7:20 Monday morning on my way to teach at Montgomery County Community College, when I heard the radio traffic report that there could be some delays on the Blue Route due to an overturned trash truck. I had the option of exiting at Conshohocken and taking Butler Pike, but I figured, "How big can a trash truck be?"
As it turns out, a trash truck can be very big when it's not a quote-unquote trash truck, but rather a tractor trailer filled to the roof with paper refuse. What a mess. What a wait. It took 40 minutes to get from the expressway to the turnpike entrance at Plymouth Meeting. Everyone who drove past had to take a good long look (and take a few pictures) of the decapitated trailer.
