{"id":6259,"date":"2025-08-13T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/?p=6259"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T14:30:54","slug":"the-schuylkill-distressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/2025\/08\/13\/the-schuylkill-distressway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Schuylkill Distressway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I was growing up, we called it the Schuylkill “Distressway.” Some people call it the “Surekill” Expressway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ah yes, the Schuylkill morning commute also known as Philadelphia\u2019s longest running psychological experiment. This morning commute has it all. A 14 minute standstill because someone sneezed in the left lane, a guy eating a hoagie the size of a toddler while doing 75, three separate people trying to merge from a stop like they\u2019re entering the Daytona 500, and that one car that somehow appears in front of you no matter what lane you\u2019re in. You don\u2019t drive 76\u2026you survive it.<\/p>\nMeanwhile in Philly<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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When I was growing up, we called it the Schuylkill “Distressway.” Some people call it the “Surekill” Expressway. Ah yes, the Schuylkill morning commute also known as Philadelphia\u2019s longest running psychological experiment. This morning commute has it all. A 14 minute standstill because someone sneezed in the left lane, a guy eating a hoagie the … Continue reading The Schuylkill Distressway<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1316],"tags":[1266,618],"class_list":["post-6259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pennsylvania","tag-generative-art","tag-philadelphia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/create-a-highly-detailed-high-resolution-image-that-captures-the-essence.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6267,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6259\/revisions\/6267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}