Name: 全美最糟糕小鎮的「公路漏洞」是如何形成的？！ (The Highway Loophole That Created The Worst Town in America)
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Looking for a place where you can just kick back and relax?

正在找個地方可以好好放鬆一下嗎？

Well, why not come on down to Breeswood, Pennsylvania, the most charming legal loophole in all of western Appalachia.

那何不來賓州布里斯伍德（Breeswood）走走呢？這裡是阿帕拉契亞西部最迷人的合法漏洞。

Yes, we've got McDonald's, Pizza Hut, affordable motel, gas station, gas station, gas station, gas station.

沒錯，我們有麥當勞、必勝客、平價汽車旅館、加油站、加油站、加油站、加油站。

而且這些地方都在步行距離內。

Ask any of the 5.5 million people who visit Breezewood every year.

去問問每年造訪 Breezewood 的五百五十萬人就知道。

That Breezewit just so happens to be sitting on one of the only quarter mile gaps in the U.S.

Breezewood 剛好就坐落於美國僅有的幾個四分之一英里間隔之一。

interstate Highway System and wouldn't exist if it wasn't exploiting a legal loophole in the Federal Aid Highway act of 1956 that forces millions of people to drive through this town in the middle of nowhere every single year.

州際公路系統，如果不是因為鑽了 1956 年聯邦援助公路法案的法律漏洞，讓數百萬人每年被迫穿越這個鳥不生蛋的鎮子，它根本不會存在。

But I think people come here for the small town charm.

但我認為大家是衝著小鎮的魅力而來。

If you're wondering about the loophole thing though, well, I can explain.

如果你對那個漏洞感到好奇，嗯，我可以解釋。

Breezewood was born at the intersection of two of the most important roads in Americaboth built at different times and for different reasons, but

Breezewood 出生於美國兩條最重要的道路的交匯處，兩條路建造的時間和原因都不同，但

they just so happen to converge here, a random valley in the middle of western Pennsylvania.

它們恰好在這裡匯集，位於賓州西部一個隨機的山谷。

Of course, major roads intersect all the time, but those intersections generally look something like this or this.

當然，主要道路經常交匯，但那些交匯處通常看起來像這樣或這樣。

I'm not going to sit here and tell you that these look great.

我不會坐在這裡跟你說這些看起來很棒。

Obviously they're both an affront to God and would better serve society if they were high speed train tracks or a Margaritaville.

顯然它們都褻瀆神明，如果它們是高鐵軌道或一座瑪格麗特維爾，更能造福社會。

As far as highway intersections go, this sort of thing makes sense.

就高速公路交流道來說，這種設計是說得通的。

You take a ramp or a loop from one highway to another and you're on your way in 30 seconds.

你從一條高速公路走匝道或迴轉道到另一條，30 秒內就能上路。

If you want to go from this major highway to this major highway, you can't just do this.

如果你想從這條主要高速公路到那條主要高速公路，你不能就這樣過去。

You have to do a quarter mile detour on surface streets through what can only be generously described as the most quintessentially American town in America.

你必須繞過一英里四分之一的平面道路，穿過一個只能被寬容地形容為美國最典型的美國小鎮。

Nowhere else on the U.S. interstate system does this kind of thing exist.

美國州際公路系統上沒有其他地方有這種東西。

The whole point of the interstate system was for coastal elites to be able to drive their extremely expensive dog from one coast to the other without ever having to get out of their car and learn what Arkansas is.

州際公路系統的重點就是讓沿海的菁英能夠開著他們極其昂貴的狗從一岸開到另一岸，而無需下車，也不用瞭解阿肯色州是什麼。

So why is it like this only here on a single quarter mile stretch of interstate in a random part of Pennsylvania?

所以為什麼在賓州的某個地方，只有這短短一英里四分之一的州際公路上會是這樣呢？

Well, it would seem it's that time again.

This highway, I 70 and this highway I 70 were not designed to fit together.

這條 I-70 高速公路和這條 I-70 高速公路，原本就不是設計來互相連接的。

They were built with very different rules.

它們是用非常不同的規則建造的。

And those different rules eventually resulted in hell.

而那些不同的規則最終導致了地獄般的局面。

I76, or at least this section of i76 is better known as the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

I-76，或者至少是 I-76 的這一段，更廣為人知的名字是賓州收費公路。

And it was arguably the first modern highway in North America.

而且它可說是北美第一條現代化的高速公路。

The turnpike was built to connect the major population centers of the Mid Atlantic to the rapidly growing industrial Midwest.

這條收費公路的建造是為了連接大西洋中部的主要人口中心和快速發展的工業中西部。

In the 1940s, the Appalachian Mountains made it almost impossible to cross this part of the country by road.

在 1940 年代，阿帕拉契山脈讓開車穿越這個國家地區變得幾乎不可能。

It took nearly nine hours just to get from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh on existing mountain roads.

走現有的山路，光是從哈里斯堡到匹茲堡就要將近九個小時。

And that was usually enough time for drivers to realize they didn't actually want to go to Pittsburgh.

而且這通常也足夠讓駕駛們意識到，他們其實根本不想去匹茲堡。

The turnpike was unlike any road that had ever been built.

這條收費公路跟以往建造的任何道路都不同。

It was massive, modern, free of big inclines, traffic lights or intersections, and

它規模宏大、現代化，沒有大坡度、紅綠燈或交叉路口，而且

it cut the time to cross Pennsylvania by road in half.

讓開車穿越賓州的時程縮短了一半。

Though they didn't know it at the time, they had just built the first real section of the U.S.

雖然他們當時還不知道，但他們剛建成了美國

州際公路系統的第一段真正意義上的路段。

Funding such a cutting edge road though, was tricky.

不過，要為這麼一條尖端道路籌措資金，可是個難題。

And the federal government wasn't in the business of spending taxpayer money on things that would be useful for taxpayers.

而聯邦政府當時並不打算花納稅人的錢去做對納稅人有用的事。

They built some toll booths, said this probably won't inadvertently break the future U.S.

他們蓋了一些收費站，說這大概不會意外地破壞未來的美國

interstate system and create a loophole by which the worst town in America is created 25 years from now.

州際公路系統，並製造一個漏洞，讓美國最糟的城鎮在25年後誕生。

President Eisenhower signs the Federal Aid Highway act of 1956 and begins creating the largest system of highways in the world.

艾森豪總統簽署了1956年的聯邦公路補助法案，開始建立世界上最大的公路系統。

These highways would be bought and paid for by the federal government up to the same standards as the Pennsylvania Turnpike, but

這些公路將由聯邦政府出資購買並支付，標準與賓州收費公路相同，但

One such highway would be I 70 on a route running all the way from Maryland to Utah.

其中一條公路將是I 70，路線從馬裡蘭州一路延伸到猶他州。

Now the good news was that the turnpike already covered a long stretch of this route through Pennsylvania and could basically just be used as i70 for that section of highway.

好消息是，收費公路已經涵蓋了這條路線在賓州很長一段，基本上可以就直接當作這段公路的i70。

The bad news is that the turnpike was still collecting toll.

壞消息是，收費公路仍然在收費。

So you'd be driving along this supposedly free new highway in Eisenhower's communist America.

所以你就會開在艾森豪時代的美國，這條號稱免費的新高速公路。

And all of a sudden a teenager sitting in a box would tell you that you owed the State of Penns 26 of your hard earned dollars.

然後突然一個坐在箱子裡的青少年會告訴你，你欠賓州26塊辛苦賺來的錢。

Not exactly the glorious vision Eisenhower had in mind.

這跟艾森豪想像中的光榮願景可不太一樣。

The federal government gave Pennsylvania two.

They could either stop collecting tolls and let people use the road for free, or they had to give drivers the option to get off I70 and onto another free road.

他們可以選擇停止收費，讓大家免費使用這條路，不然就是得讓駕駛者有機會從I70轉到另一條免費的道路。

Instead of being forced onto the section of highway that would have tolls, they chose the second option.

他們選擇了第二個選項，而不是被迫走上會收費的那段高速公路。

In fact, they Chose the second option so hard that it created Breezewood.

事實上，他們選擇第二個選項的決心這麼強，就催生了Breezewood。

The nearest free road where they could make that off ramp was right up here, U.S. 30.

最近的免費道路，可以讓他們下交流道的地方就在這裡，美國30號公路。

It's really just a fairly normal four lane road.

它其實就是一條很普通的四線道道路。

But that wasn't technically part of the deal.

但這嚴格來說並不是交易的一部分。

They extended I70 all the way up here, dumped the whole thing onto this random road for a quarter mile, and

他們把 I70 延伸到這裡，把整段路導向這條隨機的道路約四百公尺，然後

then added another ramp to get back onto the highway.

又加了一個匝道讓他們回到高速公路上。

The drivers now had this awesome and legally mandated option of getting off the highway in the middle of nowhere.

駕駛人現在有了這個很棒且法律上強制規定的選項，可以在荒郊野外下高速公路。

And it only came at the cost of forcing every single driver to take an extended detour through a congested corporate hellscape.

而這唯一的代價就是強迫每位駕駛人繞遠路，穿越一個擁擠的企業地獄。

Of course, the only reason Breezewood looks like this is because it's an incredibly rare gap in the US Interstate system.

當然，Breezewood 之所以會變成這樣，是因為它是美國州際公路系統中一個極為罕見的缺口。

It's one of the only places in the entire country where you could build a Pizza Hut that is directly connected to America's backbone.

這是全國唯一幾個能蓋一家披薩連鎖店，而且還能直接連接到美國主要幹道的地方之一。

And while I'd love for this video to have a happy ending, Breezewood's days are numbered.

不過，雖然我很希望這個影片有個快樂的結局，Breezewood 的日子也所剩不多了。

因為法律自 50 年代以來就已經改變了，

Pennsylvania's already eyeing a direct connection between i70 and the Turnpike that will leave this bounty of gasoline and french fries in the history books.

賓州的公路局已經在規劃 i70 和收費公路之間的直接連通，屆時這裡的加油站和速食店將成為歷史。

So visit while you can, or I should say, while you're forced off the highway and have no other choice.

所以，趁你還能來的時候，或者我該說，趁你被逼下交流道別無選擇的時候來吧。

Now, if you've made it this far in a video about highway infrastructure, I want to talk to you about a piece of infrastructure that is frankly much cooler.

現在，如果你看到這裡還在看一個關於公路建設的影片，我想跟你聊聊一個其實酷多了的基礎設施。

These are being built all over the Rocky Mountains right now in a massive effort to rebuild and restore the grizzly's natural range across America.

現在落磯山脈到處都在蓋這種橋，這是個龐大的計畫，目標是重建和恢復灰熊在全美的自然棲地。

I think this is awesome because it's such a clear example of how we can fix something we broke.

我覺得這超棒的，因為這清楚地展現了我們如何修復自己造成的破壞。

Now we're building ways for wildlife to cross them.

現在我們正在建造讓野生動物能跨越這些道路的通道。

But projects like this need funding and we can only do so much alone.

但像這樣的計畫需要資金，而且我們單打獨鬥能做的有限。

And that's why I've joined and partnered with Planet Wild.

這也是為什麼我加入了 Planet Wild 並與他們合作。

Planet Wild is a community based nature protection organization that includes myself and more than 20,000 members every month.

Planet Wild 是一個以社群為基礎的自然保護組織，每月都有我還有超過兩萬名成員參與。

We, as a community, fund missions to restore ecosystems and protect species.

我們身為一個社群，資助各種任務來恢復生態系統並保護物種。

You can think of it as crowdfunding for nature.

你可以把它想像成是為大自然進行群眾募資。

They document all their work and videos on YouTube so we can see what our money has achieved.

他們會在 YouTube 上記錄他們所有的工作和影片，這樣我們就能看到我們的錢達成了什麼。

One of Those missions, Mission 36, is focused on reconnecting the American wild with these amazing wildlife bridges.

其中一項任務，任務 36，專注於透過這些令人驚豔的野生動物橋樑，重新連結美國的荒野。

I love knowing that my membership is just part of a massive community of people who want to make a big impact on conservation and nature protection and how their model really takes advantage of the power of the masses.

我喜歡知道我的會員資格只是龐大社群裡的一份子，大家想在保育和自然保護上產生巨大影響，而且他們的模式真的利用了群眾的力量。

If you want to join a growing community that's passionate about making a difference in nature, please consider joining Planet Wild today.

如果你想加入一個不斷成長、熱情地想為大自然帶來改變的社群，請考慮今天就加入 Planet Wild。