Canal Sprawl

A tiny Pennsylvania village offers insights on land-use and transit.

Last year, my wife and I took a day trip to Riegelsville, Pennsylvania. (Photos all mine.) A long, narrow town sprawled out along a main transportation corridor. Its form is a little bit like a cross between a larger town built on a grid and a commercial highway corridor. However, the corridor along which Riegelsville is settled was first the Delaware R…