>>1830118Here's an example for where a stroad can actually destroy a community, Penndel. Originally Eden, then Attleboro then Penndel (the name was chosen in the 40s by the governors wife because it's "Pennsylvania by the Delware", forget that the town is miles inland from the Delaware lmao), this community was unfortunate enough to have its msin street one day become a major car throughfare.
It's technically the densest populated municipality in Bucks County at 5.1k/sq mi, and with that you can see inklings of the town that once was and could have been. There are numerous duplexes, quadplexes, remnants of mixed-use residential properties, ghosts of sidewalks and tightly packed storefronts. Hell, it's even directly on the SEPTA regional rail home to Langhorne Station on the West Trenton Line(itself not in Langhorne at all though). Now the town is an imporverished nowhere lined with local business miraculously hanging on after years of complete divestment in the name of a car-centric commercial. It has the lowest median yearly income out of any municipality in Bucks County at just 36k, and it really shows by just looking at the knackered nature of the buildings, many of which are almost if not older than a century old. I'd recommend you check.this one out in Google Streetview, it's rather fascinating to see the sheer conflict of potential for what could have been a walkable, dense community be so completely decimated by a stroad.
Mind you too, despite this being the same Lincoln Hwy which becomes Roosevelt Boulevard once it crosses into Philadelphia County, the Buisiness Route portion of it here effectively terminates with Penndel and merges with Route 1 Proper literally as soon as it exits the borough.
