U.S. Route 22 in Pennsylvania

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This article is about the section of U.S. Route 22 in Pennsylvania. For the entire route, see U.S. Route 22.

U.S. Route 22 marker

U.S. Route 22
Route information
Maintained by PennDOT & DRJTBC
Length: 337.60 mi[1] (543.31 km)
Existed: 1926 – present
Major junctions
West end: US 22 in Hanover Township
  Toll PA 576 in Washington County

I-79 near Pittsburgh
US 30 in Wilkinsburg
I-76 / I-376 / Penna Turnpike in Monroeville
I-99 / US 220 in Duncansville
US 322 / US 522 in Lewistown
US 11 / US 15 near Duncannon
I-81 / US 322 in Harrisburg
I-78 from Fredericksburg to Kuhnsville

I-476 / Penna Turnpike NE Extension in South Whitehall Township
East end: US 22 in Easton
Highway system
← PA 21 PA 22 →

U.S. Route 22 (US 22) is an east–west route stretching from Cincinnati, Ohio in the west to Newark, New Jersey in the east. In Pennsylvania, the route runs for 337.60 miles (543.31 km) between the West Virginia state line at Washington County, where it is a limited-access expressway-grade route through the western suburbs of Pittsburgh, to the New Jersey state line at Easton.

Route description

US 22 carries multiple names as it progresses across the state, including the William Penn Highway and the Lehigh Valley Thruway. Several sections of the road are freeway, including the Lehigh Valley Thruway.

US Route 22 crosses into Pennsylvania from West Virginia as the William Penn Highway. It becomes concurrent with U.S. Route 30 and then also with I-376 west of Pittsburgh, and becomes the Penn Lincoln Parkway. It continues as such through Pittsburgh and beyond the end of the US 30 concurrency, and when I-376 reaches its eastern end at the Pennsylvania Turnpike, US 22 goes onto William Penn Highway again (with Murrysville as a control city). It is also known as the Admiral Peary Highway from Armagh to the Altoona area. From New Florence through most of Ebensburg, US 22 is an expressway with the remaining portion from Ebensburg to Cross Creek operating as a limited-access freeway. From Duncansville to Mount Union, US 22 is a two-lane road with occasional passing and truck-climbing lanes, and it passes through the business district of Huntingdon, where it is three lanes (one lane each way with a turning lane in the middle). It becomes concurrent with US 522 near Mount Union and remains a two-lane road. The US 522 concurrency continues until Lewistown. US 22 bypasses the downtown area of Lewistown as a four-lane limited access highway and becomes concurrent with US 322, continuing as a four-lane limited access highway along the Juniata and Susquehanna rivers until Harrisburg. In Harrisburg (with the US 322 concurrency ending at I-81), it continues as N Cameron Street, Arsenal Blvd., Herr St., Walnut St., Jonestown Rd., and Allentown Blvd. In Fredericksburg, US 22 becomes concurrent with I-78 for a 40-mile (64 km) stretch before splitting off on to the Lehigh Valley Thruway.

Lehigh Valley Thruway

US 22 eastbound at PA 145 interchange in Whitehall Township

The Lehigh Valley Thruway is a 24-mile-long (39 km) freeway portion of US 22 from the eastern end of the Interstate 78/US 22 concurrency in Kuhnsville, west of Allentown, to the state line in Easton. The highway travels just to the north of Allentown and Bethlehem and passes through Easton. Originally, I-78 would have continued with the U.S. 22 concurrency on the Lehigh Valley Thruway into New Jersey, with I-278[citation needed] running south as a bypass, and I-178 and I-378 serving Allentown and Bethlehem respectively. Due to opposition in Phillipsburg, New Jersey on the building of a I-78/U.S. 22 highway through the town (the same opposition that later killed the Somerset Freeway for I-95 in 1982), PennDOT and NJDOT decided to reroute the I-78 highway onto the proposed I-278 bypass and allow U.S. 22 to remain on the limited-access highway, which, after going through a series of sharp, potentially dangerous curves in Easton and crossing the Delaware River into NJ, becomes an at-grade divided highway in Phillipsburg. Traffic on the Lehigh Valley Thruway is often heavy at rush hour, particularly near the PA 145 interchange. The series of sharp curves is locally known as "Cemetery Curve", and because of it, the speed limit is lowered to 45 mph at Route 248 and then lowered to 35 mph around the sharpest part of the curves. At the interchange with Bushkill Street, US 22 becomes an elevated highway until crossing into New Jersey. The speed limit drops once again to 25 mph while crossing the Easton-Phillipsburg Toll Bridge.

History

The William Penn Highway was organized as an alternative to the Lincoln Highway being parallel to the Pennsylvania Railroad west of Harrisburg. The route's New York Extension was adopted in 1916. The Pennsylvania Department of Highways assigned the Pennsylvania Route 3 designation to this road in 1924, and in 1926 it became part of U.S. Route 22 when the United States Highway System was formed,[2] The road became problematic for motorists in Lebanon along the current U.S. Route 422; Reading via U.S. Routes 22 and 222; and Allentown on Hamilton Street (US 22).[3] The highway continued through Allentown on Hanover Avenue and through Bethlehem on Broad Street, Linden Street, and Easton Avenue.

Pennsylvania Route 43 was aligned as a bypass, north of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, that ran from U.S. Route 22, U.S. Route 11, and Pennsylvania Route 5 in Harrisburg to Pennsylvania Route 12 in Bethlehem.[4] The route from Fogelsville to Allentown, now Main Street, Tilghman Street, Broadway, College Heights Boulevard, and Liberty Street, was designated LR 443 in 1925,[5] and was soon incorporated into "Traffic Route 43."[6] The New York Times was recommending use of this cutoff by early 1931.[6] On June 8, 1931, the American Association of State Highway Officials came to a resolution for the traffic problem, by replacing the PA 43 corridor with US 22. The Pennsylvania Department of Highways moved the William Penn Highway name to match.[2][3] The state truncated PA 43 to Susquehanna Street from Allentown to Bethlehem.[4][7][8][9] Signs were changed to reflect the new designations on May 31, 1932, with the new route designations officially in place on June 1, 1932.[10]

Tilghman Street was eventually connected directly from Cetronia to Allentown by a bridge over Cedar Creek; Tilghman Street (west of the Lehigh River) and Union Boulevard (east of the river) were joined in 1929 by a bridge. By 1936, US 22 had been moved from its Hamilton Street and Broad Street alignment to Tilghman Street and Union Boulevard through Allentown and Bethlehem. When the Lehigh Valley Thruway was completed in 1954, US 22 was moved onto it. With the completion of Interstate 78, US 22 was moved onto that highway from Fredericksburg to Kuhnsville.

Former alignment

Old U.S. Route 22 is the former PA 43, and the earlier version of the newer, more traveled U.S. Highway 22. It starts in the unincorporated community of Bethel, Pennsylvania of Berks County and ends in Cetronia, just outside the city of Allentown (Lehigh County) where it becomes Main Street and then Tilghman Street. This road, although no longer a major state highway, is well traveled by those who live in the vicinity. It passes through several communities including Shartlesville, Jalappa, West Hamburg, Edenburg, Krumsville, and New Smithville. It also passes through the boroughs of Strausstown, Hamburg and Lenhartsville. Old U.S. Route 22 crosses seven Pennsylvania highways including 501, 419, 183, 61, 143, 737, and 863. Through these different neighborhoods, this road is defined as Old Route 22, Hex Highway, and Shartlesville Road.

From Cetronia east, the old road is State Route 1002 in Lehigh County, comprising Tilghman Street and Union Boulevard in Allentown. In Northampton County, the 1940s highway is Union Boulevard, Linden Street, and Easton Avenue in Bethlehem; William Penn Highway between Bethlehem and Easton; and Butler Street, 13th Street, and Northampton Street in Easton.

Future

In 2011, it was announced that plans were being resurrected to widen US 22 from Allentown to Bethlehem. Part of the plan is to reconstruct the Lehigh River Bridge. The plan's cost is between $240 to $320 million.[11] Details of the proposed construction can be found on www.22lv.com.

Major intersections

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County Location mi km Exit Destinations Notes
Washington Hanover Township US 22 west – Weirton West Virginia border
PA 18 – Florence, Burgettstown
Smith Township Bavington
Robinson Township Toll PA 576 west (Southern Beltway) – Pittsburgh International Airport Current eastern terminus of PA Toll 576 as of August 2015
Allegheny North Fayette Township PA 980 south – McDonald, Midway Northern terminus of PA 980
Noblestown To Pennsylvania Motor Speedway
US 30 west / PA 978 south – Imperial Western terminus of US 30 concurrency, northern terminus of PA 978
Hankey Farms
Orange Belt (Oakdale) Westbound exit and eastbound entrance, western terminus of Orange Belt concurrency
Montour Church Road, Old Steubenville Pike, Bayer Road Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Robinson Township I-376 west (Airport Parkway) / Orange Belt – Pittsburgh International Airport Western terminus of I-376 concurrency, exit 60A from I-376, eastern terminus of Orange Belt concurrency
60B PA 60 south – Crafton
61 Ridge Road
62 Yellow Belt (Campbells Run Road) Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Collier Township 64A I-79 – Washington, Erie
Rosslyn Farms 64B Rosslyn Farms Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Carnegie Buses only (West Busway) Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
65 PA 50 – Carnegie, Heidelberg
Green Tree 67 PA 121 – Green Tree, Mount Lebanon, Crafton
Pittsburgh 68 Parkway Center Drive Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
69A US 19 south (Banksville Road) Western termini of US 19/US 19 Truck concurrencies; eastbound exit is via exit 69C
69B
US 19 Truck south / PA 51 south – Uniontown		 Westbound exit is via exit 69A
69C US 19 north / PA 51 north – West End Eastern terminus of US 19 concurrency; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Fort Pitt Tunnel under Mount Washington
69C PA 837 to PA 51 – West End Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Monongahela River Fort Pitt Bridge
Pittsburgh 70A Boulevard of the Allies, Liberty Avenue – Consol Energy Center Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
70B Fort Duquesne Boulevard – Convention Center, Strip District Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
70C
I-279 / US 19 Truck north – Fort Duquesne Bridge, North Shore		 Eastern terminus of US 19 Truck concurrency
70D Stanwix Street No eastbound exit
71A Grant Street
71B Second Avenue Westbound exit only
72A Forbes Avenue – Oakland Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
72B To I-579 (Crosstown Blvd) / PA 885 north (Boulevard of the Allies) / Liberty Bridge Westbound exit and eastbound entrance, access to I-579 and Liberty Bridge is via Boulevard of the Allies
73 PA 885 (Bates Street) – Oakland, Glenwood Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; signed as exits 73A (south) and 73B (north)
74 Blue Belt – Squirrel Hill, Homestead
Squirrel Hill Tunnel under Squirrel Hill
Swissvale 77 Edgewood, Swissvale
Wilkinsburg 78A US 30 east – Forest Hills Eastern terminus of US 30 concurrency; no westbound exit
78B PA 8 north – Wilkinsburg Southern terminus of PA 8
Churchill 79A Greensburg Pike Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
79B PA 130 – Churchill
80
US 22 Bus. east – Monroeville		 Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Penn Hills 81 PA 791 north / Yellow Belt – Penn Hills
Monroeville 84A PA 48 south / Orange Belt – Monroeville Eastbound exit and westbound entrance, northern terminus of PA 48
84B Orange Belt – Plum Eastbound exit and westbound entrance

US 22 Bus. west – Monroeville		 Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
I-376 to I-76 / Penna Turnpike – Harrisburg, Ohio Eastern terminus of I-376
East end of freeway
PA 286 east (Golden Mile Highway) Eastbound exit and westbound entrance, westbound exit and eastbound entrance provided by at-grade intersection, western terminus of PA 286
Westmoreland Salem Township PA 66 – Delmont, Greensburg Single-point urban interchange
PA 819 – Slickville, Forbes Road, Greensburg
New Alexandria US 119 south – Greensburg Western terminus of US 119 concurrency
PA 981 (Latrobe New Alexandria Road) – Latrobe, Saltsburg
Blairsville PA 982 south – Derry Northern terminus of PA 982
Indiana PA 217 – Blairsville, Derry Interchange
Burrell Township US 119 north – Homer City, Indiana Interchange, eastern terminus of US 119 concurrency, to Indiana University of Pennsylvania
West Wheatfield Township PA 259 – Brush Valley, Robinson, Bolivar Interchange
East Wheatfield Township PA 56 – Brush Valley, Armagh Interchange
PA 403 – Dilltown, Johnstown Interchange
Cambria Jackson Township PA 271 – Mundys Corner, Nanty Glo Interchange
Ebensburg US 219 to US 422 – Johnstown, Carrolltown, Indiana Interchange
High Street Interchange
Western terminus of freeway
Ebensburg, Loretto (Rowena Drive)
Munster Township PA 164 south – Munster, Portage Northern terminus of PA 164
Cresson Township PA 53 – Cresson
William Penn Highway – Summit
Blair Allegheny Township Tunnelhill Road – Tunnelhill, Gallitzin
I-99 / US 220 – Altoona, Bedford
PA 764 north – Altoona Western terminus of PA 764 concurrency
Eastern terminus of freeway
PA 764 south Eastern terminus of PA 764 concurrency
Hollidaysburg PA 36 (Penn Street) – Altoona, Roaring Spring
Catharine Township PA 866 south (Juniata River Road) Northern terminus of PA 866
Huntingdon Morris Township PA 453 north (Birmingham Pike) to PA 45 – Tyrone, State College Southern terminus of PA 453
Alexandria PA 305 east (Bridge Street) – Alexandria Western terminus of PA 305
Huntingdon PA 26 – Everett, Huntingdon, State College Interchange
Mill Creek PA 829 south – Cassville Northern terminus of PA 829
PA 655 north Western terminus of PA 655 concurrency
Brady Township PA 655 south (Oriskany Road) Eastern terminus of PA 655 concurrency
Mifflin Wayne Township PA 747 south (North Jefferson Street) – Mount Union Northern terminus of PA 747
US 522 south (Croghan Pike) Western terminus of US 522 concuurency
Lewistown Western terminus of freeway

US 22 Bus. east		 Western terminus of Business US 22
US 322 west – State College Western terminus of US 322 concurrency
Electric Avenue
US 522 north (Walnut Street) – Selinsgrove Eastern terminus of US 522 concurrency
East Charles Street Eastbound exit and westbound entrance

US 22 Bus. west – Lewistown		 Westbound exit and eastbound entrance, eastern terminus of Business US 22
Juniata Fermanagh Township Arch Rock Road
PA 35 – Mifflintown, McAlisterville To Mifflintown Airport
Walker Township PA 75 south – Port Royal Northern terminus of PA 75
Delaware Township PA 333 – East Salem, Thompsontown
Pfoutz Valley Road
Perry Greenwood Township To PA 17 – Millerstown
Howe Township PA 34 – Newport, Bloomfield
Buffalo Township Midway Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Watts Township Watts
Amity Hall
Dauphin Reed Township US 11 / US 15 – Camp Hill, Selinsgrove
At-grade section
PA 849 west – Duncannon Eastern terminus of PA 849, no access from PA 849 to US 22/322 westbound
Susquehanna River Clarks Ferry Bridge
Reed Township PA 147 north – Halifax Southern terminus of PA 147
PA 325 east (Mountain Road) Western terminus of PA 325
Dauphin PA 225 north – Halifax, Dauphin Southern terminus of PA 225
Middle Paxton Township Dauphin Borough, Stony Creek Westbound exit
Heckton Eastbound exit
PA 443 – Fishing Creek, Rockville, Fort Hunter
Susquehanna Township PA 39 – Linglestown, Rockville
I-81 south – Carlisle
I-81 north / US 322 east to I-83 – Hershey, Hazleton, Allentown Eastern terminus of US 322 concurrency
East end of freeway
Harrisburg PA 230 east (Cameron Street) – Downtown Harrisburg, Capitol Complex, City Island Western terminus of PA 230
Lower Paxton Township I-83 / US 322 to I-81 – Carlisle, Hazleton, Airport Interchange
West Hanover Township PA 39 (Hershey Road) – Hershey
East Hanover Township PA 743 (Laudermilch Road) to I-81 – Grantville, Hershey
Lebanon East Hanover Township PA 934 to I-81 – Annville, Fort Indiantown Gap Interchange
Union Township PA 72 – Lebanon, Lickdale Cloverleaf interchange
Bethel Township PA 343 south (Pine Grove Street) – Lebanon Western terminus of PA 343 concurrency
PA 343 north (Pine Grove Road) to I-78 west Eastern terminus of PA 343 concurrency
Local Traffic Old US 22 (Hex Highway)
Western terminus of freeway
8 I-78 west – Harrisburg Western terminus of I-78 concurrency
Berks Bethel Township 10 PA 645 – Frystown
Bethel 13 PA 501 – Bethel
Bethel Township 15 Grimes No access across I-78/US 22, no tractor trailers
16 Midway To Conrad Weiser Homestead
17 PA 419 – Rehrersburg
Strausstown 19 PA 183 – Strausstown
Upper Bern Township 23 Shartlesville
Tilden Township 29 PA 61 – Reading, Pottsville Signed as exits 29A (south) and 29B (north) on the westbound side
Hamburg 30 Hamburg
Greenwich Township 35 PA 143 – Lenhartsville
40 PA 737 – Kutztown, Krumsville To Kutztown University
Lehigh Weisenberg Township 45 PA 863 – Lynnport, New Smithville
Upper Macungie Township 49 PA 100 – Trexlertown, Fogelsville Split into exits 49A (south) and 49B (north)
I-78 east – New Jersey Eastbound exit and westbound entrance, eastern terminus of I-78 concurrency, I-78 exit 51
Cetronia, Kuhnsville (SR 1002 / Tilghman Street) Former routing of US 22 through Allentown
South Whitehall Township I-476 / Penna Turnpike NE Extension – Scranton, Philadelphia Lehigh Valley interchange of the PA Turnpike's Northeast Extension
PA 309 – Quakertown, Tamaqua Cloverleaf interchange, To I-78 east, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, and Lehigh Carbon Community College
Cedar Crest Boulevard To Muhlenberg College and Cedar Crest College
15th Street
Whitehall Township PA 145 (MacArthur Road/7th Street) To Allentown Center City, Lehigh Valley Mall, and Whitehall Mall
Fullerton Avenue
Hanover Township PA 987 north (Airport Road) – LVI Airport Cloverleaf interchange, southern terminus of PA 987
Bethlehem PA 378 south – Bethlehem Northern terminus of PA 378, to Lehigh University, Historic Bethlehem, Sands Casino Resort; Formerly I-378
Northampton Schoenersville Road
Hanover Township PA 512 north (Center Street) Southern terminus of PA 512, to Moravian College
Bethlehem Township PA 191 north (Nazareth Pike) Southern terminus of PA 191, to Northampton Community College
PA 33 to I-78 – Bethlehem, Stroudsburg
Palmer Township PA 248 (25th Street) – Wilson To Palmer Heights and Easton
Easton 13th Street
PA 248 / PA 611 / 4th Street Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
3rd Street – Easton Westbound exit and eastbound entrance, to Lafayette College
PA 611 – Easton Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Delaware River Easton-Phillipsburg Toll Bridge
Warren Phillipsburg US 22 east to I-78 – Phillipsburg New Jersey border
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

References

  1. ↑ DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2007 software, Driving Directions
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