'We Won't Be Ignored' | Group Takes Fight Against Allegheny Mountain 'Cut' to Harrisburg

'We won't be ignored' | Group takes fight against Allegheny Mountain 'cut' to Harrisburg

In town halls and online, Citizens to Save the Allegheny Mountain has spent years building a coalition against a Pennsylvania Turnpike plan to bypass an aging tunnel and carve a new path through the Eastern Continental Divide.

Opponents rally at Pa. Capitol against Turnpike plan to cut through Allegheny Mountain

Opposition to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s Allegheny Mountain project is ramping up again in Harrisburg, where a coalition of residents, environmental

Pa. Turnpike plan to bypass Allegheny Mountain Tunnel draws opposition in Somerset County

An artist's rendering shows the proposed realignment of the Pennsylvania Turnpike at Allegheny Mountain in which the two aging tunnels would be replaced with an open cut through the ridge. (Image courtesy of the Sierra Club of Pennsylvania) A Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission proposal to reroute the cross-state highway by blasting a 1,000-foot-wide cut through Allegheny Mountain faces opposition from Somerset County leaders, who say it would disr…