INTERSTATE 80 IN PENNSYLVANIA

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The transcontinental 'Interstate 80' is designated across northern Pennsylvania on the 'Keystone Shortway'. This route was built mainly along a completely new alignment, not paralleling any earlier U.S. Routes, as a shortcut to the tolled Pennsylvania Turnpike and New York State Thruway. It does not serve any major cities in Pennsylvania, and serves mainly as a cross-state route on the Ohio-New York City corridor. Most of I-80's path across the state goes through hilly and mountainous terrain, with relatively flat areas playing home to the freeway toward the western tier of the state.

Contents

History

I-80 Proposed Tolling

Exit list

References

External links

History

Major cities Bolded cities are officially-designated control cities for signs.
★ 'Youngstown, Ohio' ★ 'Sharon' ★ 'Clarion' ★ 'Du Bois' ★ 'Clearfield' ★ 'Bellefonte' ★ 'Williamsport' (via Interstate 180 and U.S. Route 220) ★ 'Bloomsburg' ★ 'Hazleton' ★ 'Stroudsburg' ★ 'Delaware Water Gap' ★ 'New York City, New York' (via Interstate 95)

The corridor now served by I-80 was originally to be a branch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike from Sharon to Stroudsburg. Planning was shifted to the Pennsylvania Department of Highways in 1956 with the passage of the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act.^[2]
In early plans for the Interstate Highway System, the connection across northern Pennsylvania would have paralleled U.S. Route 6N and U.S. Route 6 from what became Interstate 90 near West Springfield, Pennsylvania east to Scranton. (From Scranton east to Hartford, Connecticut, Interstate 84 was built parallel to US 6.) From Scranton a route went southeast along U.S. Route 611 to the Stroudsburg area, and then east along U.S. Route 46 to near New York City. On May 22, 1957, a request by Pennsylvania to move the corridor south was approved by the Federal Highway Administration.^[3] (The Scranton-Stroudsburg connection was kept, and the new alignment merged with it west of Stroudsburg.) However, when the initial numbers were assigned later that year, they were drawn on a 1947 map, and so the corridor across northern Pennsylvania became part of Interstate 84, while the Scranton-New York route became 'Interstate 82'. (I-80 ran along the Pennsylvania Turnpike - later Interstate 80S - to Harrisburg, where it split into I-80S to Philadelphia and I-80N (later Interstate 78) to New York.)^[4] This was corrected the next year, as the Keystone Shortway became part of I-80, and the southern route became I-80S and I-78. I-84 was truncated to Scranton, and the Scranton-Stroudsburg connection became Interstate 81E (later renumbered Interstate 380).^[5]
The first section of present I-80 to open was the Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge, opened December 16, 1953. This had been built as part of U.S. Route 611 and connected back to its old alignment soon after crossing into Pennsylvania. Construction on the rest of I-80 began in 1959 and was completed in 1970.

I-80 Proposed Tolling

In an effort to keep the Pennsylvania Turnpike system under public control, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission proposed tolling Interstate 80 as a means of raising transportation revenue. Under the plan, the PTC would assume all maintenance and tolling operations on I-80. Originally, I-80 was part of the PTC's 1,000 Mile Turnpike system, but with the passage of the Interstate Highway Act in 1954, the PTC abandoned the 1,000-mile system and only maintained the original east-west Turnpike and its Northeastern Extension. Currently the only toll on I-80 in Pennsylvania is at the Delaware Water Gap bridge between Pennsylvania and New Jersey.^[6] Tolling on I-80 would be completed by 2010. ^[7]

Exit list

County	Location	Mile[8]	Exit #		Destinations	Notes
			New	Old
Ohio State Line
Mercer		3.86	4A	1S	PA 60 (Beaver Valley Expressway) – New Castle
		4.20	4B	1N	PA 60 - PA 18 (Beaver Valley Expressway) – Sharon, Hermitage	Also Farrell, West Middlesex
		14.92	15	2	US 19 – Mercer
		19.18	19A-B		I-79 (Raymond P. Shafer Highway) – Pittsburgh, Erie
		23.25	24	3A	PA 173 – Grove City, Sandy Lake
Venango	Barkeyville	29.01	29	3	PA 8 – Barkeyville, Franklin – Oil City Areas
		34.76	35	4	PA 308 – Clintonville
		41.94	42	5	PA 38 – Emlenton
Clarion		45.77	45	6	PA 478 – Emlenton, St. Petersburg	Eastbound ramps to/from PA 478; Westbound ramps to/from PA 38/PA 208 concurrency and are in Venango County.
		52.53	53	7	PA 338 – Knox	Connection to PA 338 via Quadrant Route 3007 (May Road).
		60.31	60	8	PA 66 – Shippenville	PA 66 joins eastbound, leaves westbound.
		61.96	62	9	PA 68 – Clarion
		64.64	64	10	PA 66 – Clarion, New Bethlehem	PA 66 leaves eastbound, joins westbound.
		70.38	70	11	US 322 – Strattanville
Jefferson		72.97	73	12	PA 949 – Corsica
	Brookville	78.40	78	13	PA 36 – Sigel, Brookville
		81.24	81	14	PA 28 – Hazen
		86.51	86	15	Reynoldsville
		90.75	90	N/A	PA 830- DuBois Regional Airport
Clearfield		96.41	97	16	US 219 – DuBois, Brockway
		100.73	101	17	PA 255 – DuBois, Penfield
		110.32	111	18	PA 153 – Clearfield, Penfield
		119.42	120	19	PA 879 – Clearfield, Shawville
		122.69	123	20	PA 970 – Woodland, Shawville
		132.65	133	21	PA 53 – Kylertown, Philipsburg
Centre		146.96	147	22	PA 144 – Snow Shoe
		157.25	158	23	Alt US 220 - I-99 - PA 150 – Altoona, Milesburg	Alt US 220 joins eastbound, leaves westbound.
		160.20	161	24	I-99 - US 220 - PA 26 – Bellefonte	US 220 joins eastbound, leaves westbound; Alt US 220 ends eastbound, begins westbound.
Clinton		172.74	173	25	PA 64 – Lamar
		177.53	178	26	US 220 – Lock Haven	US 220 leaves eastbound, enters westbound; Future I-99 North will be here or nearby (TBD)
		185.19	185	27	PA 477 – Loganton
		191.90	192	28	PA 880 – Jersey Shore
Union		198.96	199	29	(Mile Run Road)
		209.83	210A-B	30A-B	US 15 – Lewisburg, Williamsport
Northumberland		211.37	212A	31A	PA 147 – Milton	Northern terminus of PA 147.
		211.65	212B	31B	I-180 – Williamsport	Eastern terminus of I-180.
		214.88	215	32	PA 254 – Limestoneville
Montour		226.56	224	33	PA 54 – Danville
Columbia		231.80	232	34	PA 42 – Buckhorn
		235.38	236A-B	35A-B	PA 487 – Bloomsburg, Light Street	Eastbound combined to single exit 236; single entrance ramps eastbound and westbound.
		240.23	241A-B	36A-B	US 11 – Lime Ridge, Berwick	Westbound combined to single exit 241 which splits.
		241.45	242	37	PA 339 – Mifflinville, Mainville
Luzerne		255.54	256	38	PA 93 – Conyngham, Nescopeck
		259.56	260A-B		I-81 (American Legion Memorial Highway) – Harrisburg, Wilkes-Barre
		262.13	262	39	PA 309 – Mountain Top, Hazleton
	White Haven	272.05	273	40	PA 940 - PA 437 – White Haven, Freeland
Carbon		273.54	274	41	PA 534 – Hickory Run State Park
		276.26	277	42	PA 940 – Lake Harmony I-476 - PA Tpk. – Wilkes-Barre, Allentown	Pocono Exit of PA Turnpike
Monroe		283.10	284	43	PA 115 – Blakeslee
		292.74	293		I-380 – Scranton	Southern terminus of I-380.
		297.26	298	44	PA 611 – Scotrun	Westbound exit, eastbound entrance only.
		298.20	299	45	PA 715 – Tannersville	Westbound entrance via Quadrant Route 3004 (Sullivan Trail)
		302.00	302A	46A	PA 33 - US 209 – Snydersville
			302B	46B	PA 611 – Bartonsville	Single westbound exit 302 to PA 611 only; eastbound entrance and westbound exit to/from south via exit 304.
		303.87	303	47	(Ninth Street)	Eastbound exit, westbound entrance only
		304.84	304	46A	US 209 - PA 33 – Snydersville	US 209 joins eastbound, leaves westbound Also Lehighton, Bethlehem
	Stroudsburg	305.14	305	48	Bus. US 209 (Main Street)
		305.79	306	49	(Dreher Avenue)	Eastbound entrance, westbound exit only
		306.22	307	50	PA 611 - PA 191 (Park Avenue)	Eastbound exit to/from PA 611
		306.74			PA 191 (Broad Street)	Westbound exit to/from PA 191
	East Stroudsburg	307.62	308	51	East Stroudsburg
		308.70	309	52	US 209 - PA 447 – Marshalls Creek	US 209 leaves eastbound, joins westbound; southern terminus of PA 447 is just north of interchange on US 209.
	Delaware Water Gap	309.72	310	53	PA 611 – Delaware Water Gap	All ramps via Broad Street and Gap Road; potential commuter rail park & ride to New York City and Scranton via the Lackawanna Cutoff.
		310.77	New Jersey state line. Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge over the Delaware River. Westbound: $0.75 or E-ZPass.[9]

References

1. Route Log - Main Routes of the Eisenhower National System Of Interstate and Defense Highways - Table 1
2. Pennsylvania Highways: Interstate 80
3. Ask the Rambler - Was I-76 Numbered to Honor Philadelphia for Independence Day, 1776?
4. as Adopted by the American Association of State Highway Officials, August 14, 1957
5. as Adopted by the American Association of State Highway Officials, Approved June 27, 1958
6. Senate Transportation Committee
7. Transportation Funding
8. DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2007 Software. Toggle Measure Tool. Retrieved on July 15 2007.
9. Toll Rates

External links

★ I-80 Interchange Browser - Central PA/MD Roads