Section 1. The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Adequate transportation systems are crucial to the public health, safety and economic integrity of a community.
(2) Central Westmoreland County has for many years endured extreme congestion of traffic in the general north-south pattern between the Boroughs of Delmont and New Stanton which has threatened the safety of the public and thwarted economic development.
(3) The construction of a limited access road artery for the north-south pattern in central Westmoreland County would relieve such congestion, reduce the threat of catastrophe from the transportation of highly combustible and toxic materials in densely populated areas, and promote the general safety, health and welfare of the public.
(4) Since his election to the General Assembly in 1968, Amos K. Hutchinson of Greensburg, Westmoreland County, has advocated an expanded State road network, including a central Westmoreland County artery for north-south patterns to relieve congestion.
(5) Representative Amos K. Hutchinson has tirelessly and relentlessly pursued construction of a north-south road artery in furtherance of the public safety, welfare and economic development in central Westmoreland County.
(6) In 1985, the General Assembly passed Senate Bill No. 441, which was signed into law as the act of September 30, 1985 (P.L.240, No.61), known as the Turnpike Organization, Extension and Toll Road Conversion Act.