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Interstate 476. Interstate 476 ( I-476) is a 132.1-mile (212.6 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway of I-76 in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The highway runs from I-95 near Chester north to I-81 near Scranton, serving as the primary north–south Interstate corridor through eastern Pennsylvania. It consists of both the 20-mile (32 km) Mid-County ...
4,380 feet (1,340 m) [ 1] No. of lanes. 4 [ 1] Operating speed. 55 mph (89 km/h) [ 3] The Lehigh Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels that carries the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension ( Interstate 476) under Blue Mountain north from U.S. Route 22 in the Lehigh Valley to the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre area between mileposts 70.7 to 71.5.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike was extended east to Valley Forge in 1950 and west to the Ohio state line in 1951. In 1954, the road was extended further east to the Delaware River, and construction began on the Northeast Extension of the turnpike. The mainline turnpike was finished in 1956 with the completion of the Delaware River Bridge.
I-76 (Pennsylvania Turnpike) 4,727 feet (1,441 m) [49] Laurel Hill Tunnel: Cook and Jefferson Townships Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) 4,541 feet (1,384 m) 1940 [50] Lehigh Tunnel: Lehigh and Carbon counties I-476 (Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike) Blue Mountain: 4,400 feet (1,300 m) 1957, 1991 [51] Liberty Tunnel: Pittsburgh
Jul. 30—The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Friday issued an advisory to motorists that the Northeast Extension (I-476) will be closed northbound on Sunday, July 31, from 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m ...
Allegheny Mountain Tunnel. The Allegheny Mountain Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel carrying the Pennsylvania Turnpike through the Allegheny Mountains. At this point, the Turnpike carries Interstates 70 and 76. When the tunnel was built, it was considered an "engineering marvel." [ 1] The tunnel was built in 1939 and is used by 11 million vehicles ...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project is an ongoing road construction project to built an interchange between Interstate 95 (I-95) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The $553 million first stage [ 3] is complete: a pair of flyover ramps–one connecting I-95 ...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission ( PTC) is an agency created in 1937 to construct, finance, operate, and maintain the Pennsylvania Turnpike (both the mainline and the Northeast Extension ). The commission consists of five members. Four members are appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania, while the fifth member is the Pennsylvania ...