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The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is the common name of a 13-mile (21 km) stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was replaced in 1968 by a new stretch. This was done to eliminate traffic congestion caused by the two lane Sideling Hill Tunnel and Rays Hill Tunnel.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission started construction on a new toll highway from Carlisle, Pennsylvania to Irwin, Pennsylvania in 1938. When the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened on October 25, 1940, the Sideling Hill Tunnel was one of the seven original tunnels along the highway, six of which were built from the old railroad tunnels from the 1880s.
Rays Hill Tunnel is 3,532 feet (1,077 m) long. It was the shortest of the seven original tunnels on Pennsylvania Turnpike. Due to its short length, its ventilation fans were installed only at its western portal. Its eastern portal is the only one of the 14 tunnel portals on the original turnpike that has no ventilation fan housing.
Laurel Hill Tunnel is a 4,541-foot-long (1,384 m) tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed and abandoned in 1964. It is bored through Laurel Ridge, spanning the border of Westmoreland and Somerset counties. Its western portal may be seen from the eastbound side of the Turnpike at milepost 99.3.
Never used and omitted from the Pennsylvania Turnpike [33] Rays Hill Tunnel: Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) Rays Hill: 3,532 feet (1,077 m) 1940 [50] Sideling Hill Tunnel: Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) Sideling Hill: 6,782 feet (2,067 m) 1940 [50] Squirrel Hill Tunnel: Pittsburgh: I-376 (Penn-Lincoln Parkway) Squirrel Hill: 4,225 feet ...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike, sometimes shortened to Penna Turnpike or PA Turnpike, is a controlled-access toll road which is operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) in Pennsylvania. It runs for 360 miles (580 km) across the southern part of the state, connecting Pittsburgh , Harrisburg and Philadelphia , and passes through four ...
Map of the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike; red line shows road open for pedestrians/cyclists, dashed red line shows closed-off portions of the road, red/white alternating show tunnels: Date: 13 March 2013: Source: Own work, data from U.S. Census Bureau
A second tube was bored in the late 1960s to ease traffic conditions. The Tuscarora Mountain tunnels measure 1.1 miles (1.8 km) in length and are the second-longest active tunnels on the Pennsylvania Turnpike system. The 1.3-mile-long (2.1 km) Sideling Hill Tunnel is the longest overall, but was abandoned in 1968.