US Officials Warn Pope Fans to Be Prepared to Walk

Be prepared, be patient -- or maybe better yet, stay home. That was the message offered by New Jersey transportation officials Thursday as they laid out plans to accommodate the expected hundreds of thousands of people expected to pass through New Jersey next month for Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia. With anticipated major traffic delays and the prospect of a several-miles-long walk from Camden over the closed Ben Franklin Bridge to the site of the Pope's Sunday Mass,...

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