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The William Penn Highway in Pennsylvania has largely been superseded by U.S. Route 22 (US 22). From Pittsburgh, the highway's original route followed modern-day Pennsylvania Route 380 (PA 380) and PA 8 to Wilkinsburg, then Penn Avenue and the William Penn Highway up to an alignment since absorbed by Interstate 376 (I-376).
The original Pennsylvania Route 3 was the designation for the William Penn Highway running from Hanover Township to Easton.After its decommissioning in 1930, PA 3 was renumbered in several areas to extend active routes, including US 22 from the WV/PA state line to Harrisburg, PA 60 from Robinson Township to Pittsburgh, US 322 from Harrisburg to Hershey, US 422 from Hershey to Wyomissing, US ...
View east along US 22 east of County Route 13 (CR 13) in Weirton, West Virginia. Known as the Robert C. Byrd Expressway, the expressway route that began roughly 30 miles (48 km) to the west near Cadiz, Ohio, continues for approximately five miles (8.0 km) within the state of West Virginia (the highway runs concurrent with West Virginia Route 2, or WV 2, for one of those miles, or 1.6 km) as it ...
Pennsylvania Route 1: Lincoln Highway; Pennsylvania Route 2: Lackawanna Trail; Pennsylvania Route 3: William Penn Highway; Pennsylvania Route 4: Susquehanna Trail; Pennsylvania Route 5: Lakes-to-Sea Highway; Pennsylvania Route 6: Old Monument Trail (after 1924) Pennsylvania Route 7: Roosevelt Highway; Pennsylvania Route 8: William Flinn Highway ...
U.S. Route 22 (US 22) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that stretches from Cincinnati, Ohio, in the west, to Newark, New Jersey, in the east.In Pennsylvania, the route runs for 338.20 miles (544.28 km) between the West Virginia state line in Washington County, where it is a freeway through the western suburbs of Pittsburgh, and then runs east to Easton and the Pennsylvania ...
In 1916, the William Penn Highway was organized as an alternative to the Lincoln Highway. The roadway traversed Center City Allentown via Hamilton Street and Hamilton Boulevard. The Pennsylvania Department of Highways gave the road the PA 3 numbering in 1924 and when the United States Highway System was formed, US 22 became part of it. [9]
Interstate 78 and U.S. Route 22 pass through the area concurrently along William Penn Highway. It follows a southwest-northeast alignment through the middle of the township, but the nearest exits are in neighboring Hamburg and Greenwich Township.
In 1924, the William Penn Highway was designated as PA 3 with the establishment of the first state route numbers in Pennsylvania. [5] With the establishment of the U.S. Highway System in 1926, the route heading from Reading southwest to Lancaster was designated as US 222 while the route heading from Reading to Allentown along the William Penn ...