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Pennsylvania's statewide 511 launched on September 1, 2009. The system provides up to date information on all the states interstate highways. [30] Travelers can also view road conditions and traffic cameras at 511PA.com.
U.S. Route 119 (US 119) travels through Connellsville, Greensburg, and Punxsutawney, and bypasses Uniontown and Indiana. There are numerous other boroughs and villages along its 133-mile (214 km) route in the Keystone State. The southern entrance of US 119 is at the West Virginia state line one-half-mile south of Point Marion.
Since Pennsylvania first introduced numbered traffic routes in 1924, a keystone symbol shape has been used, in reference to Pennsylvania being the "Keystone State". The signs originally said "Penna" (a common abbreviation for Pennsylvania at the time), followed by the route number in block-style numbering in a keystone cutout.
In Pennsylvania, a sudden, torrential downpour turned deadly in Upper Makefield Township. Fire Chief Tim Brewer told reporters the area got about 6 1/2 to 7 inches of rain (about 18 centimeters ...
Interstate 80 (I-80) in the US state of Pennsylvania runs for 311.12 miles (500.70 km) across the central part of the state. It is designated as the Keystone Shortway and officially as the Z.H. Confair Memorial Highway. This route was built mainly along a completely new alignment, not paralleling any earlier US Routes, as a shortcut to the ...
The Pennsylvania State Route System was established by the Sproul Road Bill passed in 1911. The system took control of over 4,000 miles of road. The system of roads continued to grow over the next few decades until continual addition of roads faced greater opposition. On October 1, 1940, the Pennsylvania Turnpike's first section of highway was ...
PA 581 westbound along the Capital Beltway past US 11 in Hampden Township. Eastbound from the interchange of PA 581 at I-83 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the city of Harrisburg in the borough of Lemoyne (colloquially known as the "York split"), [3] the beltway crosses the Susquehanna River on the John Harris Bridge, connecting Harrisburg to its West Shore (a colloquialism of the western bank of the ...
Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Pennsylvania Turnpike, sometimes shortened to Penna Turnpike or PA Turnpike, is a controlled-access toll road that is operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States. It runs for 360 miles (580 km) across the state, connecting Pittsburgh in Western ...