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It is envisioned to serve as a southern beltway around the Greater Pittsburgh area between Pittsburgh International Airport and the historic Steel Valley of the Monongahela River. The first segment of the highway between PA 60 (now I-376 ) and Pittsburgh International Airport in Findlay Township and US 22 in Robinson Township opened to traffic ...
On October 17, 1980, the expressway from Exit 12 to the north border of Tarentum was opened to traffic, it was also extended onto a new at-grade segment. [14] The final stretch of the Allegheny Valley Expressway between Exit 13 and Exit 15 opened in 1985, PA 28 was subsequently removed from Freeport Road. [8]
In the 1940s, two sections of a truck bypass were built to keep heavy vehicles away from the narrow city streets on Pittsburgh's North Side. After the completion of area freeways, the truck designation became irrelevant and the two separate designations were combined. The southern terminus of the route is in the wealthy suburb of Mt. Lebanon.
The Allegheny County Belt System was developed in the late 1940s by Joseph White, an engineer with the Allegheny County Department of Public Works, as a wayfarer system using a network of federal, state, and municipal roads to offer residents alternative traffic patterns that did not lead to downtown Pittsburgh's congested Golden Triangle.
Fort Pitt Bridge with Downtown Pittsburgh in the background. A large metropolitan area that is surrounded by rivers and hills, Pittsburgh has an infrastructure system that has been built out over the years to include roads, tunnels, bridges, railroads, inclines, bike paths, and stairways; however, the hills and rivers still form many barriers to transportation within the city.
Pennsylvania Route 48 (PA 48) is an 18.9-mile-long (30.4 km) state highway located in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. The route is predominantly a two-lane highway as it runs through McKeesport and other suburbs. The entire routing of PA 48 is part of the Orange Belt, both reaching their southern termini at PA 51, southeast of Elizabeth.
PA 885 in Pittsburgh: I-279/US 19 Truck/PA 28 in Pittsburgh: 1962: current Called the Crosstown Boulevard [3] I-676: 2.15: 3.46 I-76/US 30 in Philadelphia: I-676/US 30 at New Jersey border in Philadelphia: 1964: current Called the Vine Street Expressway [3] I-695 — — I-95 near Philadelphia International Airport: I-95 in Philadelphia: 1964
Pennsylvania Route 130 (PA 130) is a 49-mile-long (79 km) state highway located in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties in Pennsylvania.The western terminus is at PA 8 in Pittsburgh, and the eastern terminus is at PA 381 near Kregar.