U.S. Route 22 in Pennsylvania

This article is about the section of U.S. Route 22 in Pennsylvania. For the entire length of the highway, see U.S. Route 22.

U.S. Route 22
Route information
Maintained by PennDOT & DRJTBC
Length:	337.60 mi[1] (543.31 km)
Existed:	1926 – present
Major junctions
West end:	US 22 in Hanover Township
	Toll PA 576 in Washington County US 30 near Pittsburgh I-79 near Pittsburgh US 30 in Wilkinsburg I-76 / I-376 / Penna. Tpk. in Monroeville I-99 / US 220 in Duncansville US 322 / US 522 in Lewistown US 11 / US 15 near Duncannon I-81 / US 322 in Harrisburg I-78 from Fredericksburg to Kuhnsville I-476 / Penna. Tpk. in South Whitehall Township
East end:	US 22 in Easton
Highway system
United States Numbered Highways List • Bannered • Divided • Replaced Roads in Pennsylvania Interstate • US • State • Legislative ← PA 21 PA 22 →

U.S. Route 22 is an east–west route stretching from Cincinnati, Ohio in the west to Newark, New Jersey in the east. In Pennsylvania, the route runs for 337.60 miles (543.31 km) between the West Virginia state line at Washington County, where it is a limited-access expressway-grade route through the western suburbs of Pittsburgh, to the New Jersey state line at Easton.

Route description

US 22 carries multiple names as it progresses across the state, including the William Penn Highway and the Lehigh Valley Thruway. Several sections of the road are highway, including the Lehigh Valley Thruway.

US Route 22 crosses into Pennsylvania from West Virginia as the William Penn Highway. It becomes concurrent with US Route 30 and then also with I-376 west of Pittsburgh, and becomes the Penn Lincoln Parkway. It continues as such through Pittsburgh and beyond the end of the US 30 concurrency, and at the eastern end of I-376, US 22 goes onto William Penn Highway again. It becomes the Admiral Perry Highway and provides four lanes of travel from Armagh to Altoona. From New Florence thru most of Ebensburg, US 22 is an expressway with the remaining portion from Ebensburg to Altoona operating as a limited-access freeway. It becomes concurrent with US 522 near Mount Union and continues the concurrency until Lewistown. In Lewistown, US 22 becomes concurrent with US 322 and continues along the Susquehanna River until Harrisburg. In Harrisburg, it continues as N Cameron Street, Arsenal Blvd, Herr St, Walnut St, Jonestown Rd, and Allentown Blvd. In Fredericksburg, US 22 becomes concurrent with I-78 for a 40-mile (64 km) stretch before splitting off on to the Lehigh Valley Thruway.

Lehigh Valley Thruway

The Lehigh Valley Thruway is a 24-mile-long (39 km) freeway portion of US 22 from the eastern end of the Interstate 78/US 22 concurrency in Kuhnsville, west of Allentown, to the state line in Easton. The highway travels just to the north of Allentown and Bethlehem and passes through Easton. Originally, I-78 would have continued with the U.S. 22 concurrency on the Lehigh Valley Thruway into New Jersey, with I-278^{[citation needed]} running south as a bypass, and I-178 and I-378 serving Allentown and Bethlehem respectively. Due to opposition in Phillipsburg, New Jersey on the building of a I-78/U.S. 22 highway through the town (the same opposition that later killed the Somerset Freeway for I-95 in 1982), PennDOT and NJDOT decided to reroute the I-78 highway onto the proposed I-278 bypass and allow U.S. 22 to remain on the limited-access highway, which, after going through sharp curves and crossing the Delaware River into NJ, becomes an at-grade divided highway in Phillipsburg. Traffic on the Lehigh Valley Thruway is often heavy at rush hour, particularly near the PA 145 interchange. Once in Easton, the highway goes through a series of potentially dangerous curves, locally known as "Cemetery Curve." For this reason, the speed limit is lowered to 45 mph at Route 248 and then lowered to 35 mph around the sharpest part of the curve. At the interchange with Bushkill Street, US 22 becomes an elevated highway until crossing into New Jersey. The speed limit drops once again to 25 mph while crossing the Easton-Phillipsburg Toll Bridge.

Future

In 2011, it was announced that plans were being resurrected to widen US 22 from Allentown to Bethlehem. Part of the plan is to reconstruct the Lehigh River Bridge. The plan's cost is between $240 to $320 million.^[2]

History

The William Penn Highway was organized as an alternative to the Lincoln Highway being parallel to the Pennsylvania Railroad west of Harrisburg. The route's New York Extension was adopted in 1916. The Pennsylvania Department of Highways assigned the Pennsylvania Route 3 designation to this road in 1924, and in 1926 it became part of U.S. Route 22 when the United States Highway System was formed,^[3] The road became problematic for motorists in Lebanon along the current U.S. Route 422; Reading via U.S. Routes 22 and 222; and Allentown on Hamilton Street (US 22).^[4] The highway continued through Allentown on Hanover Avenue and through Bethlehem on Broad Street, Linden Street, and Easton Avenue.

Pennsylvania Route 43 was aligned as a bypass, north of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country, that ran from U.S. Route 22, U.S. Route 11, and Pennsylvania Route 5 in Harrisburg to Pennsylvania Route 12 in Bethlehem.^[5] The route from Fogelsville to Allentown, now Main Street, Tilghman Street, Broadway, College Heights Boulevard, and Liberty Street, was designated LR 443 in 1925,^[6] and was soon incorporated into "Traffic Route 43."^[7] The New York Times was recommending use of this cutoff by early 1931^[7]. On June 8, 1931, the American Association of State Highway Officials came to a resolution for the traffic problem, by replacing the PA 43 corridor with US 22. The Pennsylvania Department of Highways moved the William Penn Highway name to match.^[3][4] The state truncated PA 43 to Susquehanna Street from Allentown to Bethlehem.^{[5][8][9][10]}

Tilghman Street was eventually connected directly from Cetronia to Allentown by a bridge over Cedar Creek; Tilghman Street (west of the Lehigh River) and Union Boulevard (east of the river) were joined in 1929 by a bridge. By 1936, US 22 had been moved from its Hamilton Street and Broad Street alignment to Tilghman Street and Union Boulevard through Allentown and Bethlehem. When the Lehigh Valley Thruway was completed in 1954, US 22 was moved onto it. With the completion of Interstate 78, US 22 was moved onto that highway from Fredericksburg to Kuhnsville.

Former alignment

Old U.S. Route 22 is the former PA 43, and the earlier version of the newer, more traveled U.S. Highway 22. It starts in the unincorporated community of Bethel, Pennsylvania of Berks County and ends in Cetronia, just outside of the city of Allentown (Lehigh County) where it becomes Main Street and then Tilghman Street. This road, although no longer a major state highway, is well traveled by those who live in the vicinity. It passes through several communities including Shartlesville, Jalappa, West Hamburg, Edenburg, Krumsville, and New Smithville. It also passes through the boroughs of Strausstown, Hamburg and Lenhartsville. Old U.S. Route 22 crosses seven Pennsylvania highways including 501, 419, 183, 61, 143, 737, and 863. Through these different neighborhoods, this road is defined as Old Route 22, Hex Highway, and Shartlesville Road.

From Cetronia east, the old road is State Route 1002 in Lehigh County, comprising Tilghman Street and Union Boulevard in Allentown. In Northampton County, the 1940s highway is Union Boulevard, Linden Street, and Easton Avenue in Bethlehem; William Penn Highway between Bethlehem and Easton; and Butler Street, 13th Street, and Northampton Street in Easton.

Major intersections

County	Location	Mile	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Washington	Hanover Township			US 22 west	West Virginia border
				PA 18 – Florence, Burgettstown
	Smith Township			Bavington
	Robinson Township			Toll PA 576 west (Southern Beltway) – Pittsburgh International Airport
Allegheny	North Fayette Township			PA 980 south – McDonald, Midway
				Noblestown	To Pennsylvania Motor Speedway
				US 30 west / PA 978 south – Imperial	West end of US 30 overlap
				Hankey Farms
				Oakdale
				Montour Church Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
				Old Steubenville Pike, Bayer Road
	Robinson Township			I-376 west (Airport Parkway) – Pittsburgh International Airport	West end of I-376 overlap, I-376 exit 60A
			60B	PA 60 south – Crafton
			61	Ridge Road
			62	Campbells Run Road	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Collier Township		64A	I-79 – Washington, Erie
	Rosslyn Farms		64B	Rosslyn Farms	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Carnegie			Buses only (West Busway)	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			65	PA 50 west – Carnegie, Heidelberg
	Green Tree		67	PA 121 – Green Tree, Mount Lebanon, Crafton
	Pittsburgh		68	Parkway Center Drive	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
			69A	US 19 south (Banksville Road)	West end of US 19/US 19 Truck overlap; eastbound exit is via exit 69C
			69B	US 19 Truck south / PA 51 south – Uniontown	Westbound exit is via exit 69A
			69C	US 19 north / PA 51 north – West End	East end of US 19 overlap; eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		Fort Pitt Tunnel under Mount Washington
			69C	PA 837 to PA 51 – West End	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
		Fort Pitt Bridge over the Monongahela River
			70A	Boulevard of the Allies, Liberty Avenue – Mellon Arena	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			70B	Fort Duquesne Boulevard – Convention Center, Strip District	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			70C	I-279 / US 19 Truck north – Fort Duquesne Bridge, North Shore	East end of US 19 Truck overlap
			70D	Stanwix Street	No eastbound exit
			71A	Grant Street
			71B	Second Avenue	Westbound exit only
			72A	Forbes Avenue – Oakland	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			72B	To I-579 (Crosstown Blvd) / PA 885 north (Boulevard of the Allies) / Liberty Bridge	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance, access to I-579 and Liberty Bridge is via Boulevard of the Allies
			73	PA 885 (Bates Street) – Oakland, Glenwood	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; signed as exits 73A (south) and 73B (north)
			74	Blue Belt – Squirrel Hill, Homestead
		Squirrel Hill Tunnel under Squirrel Hill
	Swissvale		77	Edgewood, Swissvale
	Wilkinsburg		78A	US 30 east – Forest Hills	East end of US 30 overlap; no westbound exit
			78B	PA 8 north – Wilkinsburg
	Churchill		79A	Greensburg Pike	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			79B	PA 130 – Churchill
			80	US 22 Bus. east – Monroeville	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
	Penn Hills		81	PA 791 north / Yellow Belt – Penn Hills
	Monroeville		84A	PA 48 south / Orange Belt – Monroeville	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
			84B	Orange Belt – Plum	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
				US 22 Bus. west – Monroeville	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
				I-376 to I-76 / Penna. Tpk. – Harrisburg, Ohio	East end of I-376 overlap
		East end of freeway
				PA 286 north (Golden Mile Highway)
Westmoreland	Salem Township			PA 66 – Delmont, Greensburg	Single point diamond interchange
				PA 819 – Salem Township
	New Alexandria			US 119 south	Interchange, west end of US 119 overlap
				PA 981
	Blairsville			PA 982 south
Indiana				PA 217 – Blairsville, Derry	Interchange
	Burrell Township			US 119 north – Homer City, Indiana	Interchange, east end of US 119 overlap, to Indiana University of Pennsylvania
	East Wheatfield Township			PA 56 – Armagh, Brush Valley	Interchange
				PA 403 – Dilltown, Johnstown	Interchange
Cambria	Jackson Township			PA 271 – Nanty Glo, Johnstown	Interchange
	Ebensburg			US 219 to US 422 – Johnstown, DuBois	Interchange
				High Street	Interchange
		West end of freeway
				Rowena Drive
	Munster Township			PA 164 south – Portage, Munster
	Cresson Township			PA 53 – Cresson
				William Penn Highway – Summit
Blair	Allegheny Township			Tunnelhill Road – Tunnelhill, Gallitzin
				I-99 / US 220 – Altoona, Bedford
				PA 764 north – Altoona	West end of PA 764 overlap
		East end of freeway
				PA 764	East end of PA 764 overlap
	Hollidaysburg			PA 36 (Penn Street)
	Point View			PA 866	Northern terminus of PA 866
Huntingdon	Water Street			PA 453	Southern terminus of PA 453
	Alexandria			PA 305	Western terminus of PA 305
	Huntingdon			PA 26 (Pennsylvania Avenue)	Interchange
	Mill Creek			PA 829	Northern terminus of PA 829
				PA 655 north	West end of PA 655 concurrency
				PA 655 south	East end of PA 655 concurrency
Mifflin	Lucy Furnace			US 522 south (Jefferson Street)	West end of US 522 concurrency
	Lewistown			PA 103 (Market Street)
		West end of freeway
				US 22 Bus.
				US 322 west – State College	West end of US 322 overlap
				Ort Valley Road
				Electric Avenue
				US 522 north (Walnut Street)	East end of US 522 overlap
				US 22 Bus. west – Lewistown
Juniata	Fermanagh Township			Arch Rock Road
				PA 35 – Mifflintown, McAlisterville	To Mifflintown Airport
	Walker Township			PA 75 south – Port Royal
	Delaware Township			PA 333 – East Salem, Thompsontown
				Pfoutz Valley Road
Perry	Greenwood Township			To PA 17 – Millerstown
	Howe Township			PA 34 – Newport, Bloomfield
	Buffalo Township			Midway	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Watts Township			Watts
				Amity Hall
Dauphin	Reed Township			US 11 / US 15 – Camp Hill, Selinsgrove
		At-grade section
				PA 849 – Duncannon
		Clarks Ferry Bridge over Susquehanna River
				PA 147 north – Halifax
				PA 325 east (Mountain Road)
	Dauphin			PA 225 north – Halifax, Dauphin
	Middle Paxton Township			Dauphin Borough, Stony Creek	Westbound exit
				Heckton	Eastbound exit
				PA 443 – Fishing Creek, Rockville, Fort Hunter
	Susquehanna Township			PA 39 – Linglestown, Rockville
				I-81 south – Carlisle
				I-81 north / US 322 east – Hazleton, Hershey	East end of US 322 overlap
		East end of freeway
	Harrisburg			PA 230 (Cameron Street)	Western terminus of PA 230
	Colonial Park			I-83 / US 322 – Lewistown, Hershey, York	Interchange
	Manor Acres			PA 39 (Hershey Road)
	Grantville			PA 743 (Laudermilch Road)
Lebanon	East Hanover Township			PA 934	Interchange
	Union Township			PA 72 – Lickdale, Lebanon	Cloverleaf interchange
	Bethel Township			PA 343 south (Pine Grove Road)	West end of PA 343 overlap
				PA 343 north (Pine Grove Road)	East end of PA 343 overlap
				Local Traffic	Old US 22 (Hex Highway)
		West end of freeway
				I-78 west – Harrisburg	West end of I-78 overlap, I-78 exit 8
Berks	Bethel Township		10	PA 645 – Frystown
	Bethel		13	PA 501 – Bethel
	Bethel Township		15	Grimes	No access across I-78/US 22
			16	Midway	To Conrad Weiser Homestead
			17	PA 419 – Rehrersburg
	Strausstown		19	PA 183 – Strausstown
	Upper Bern Township		23	Shartlesville
	Tilden Township		29	PA 61 – Reading, Pottsville	Signed as exits 29A (south) and 29B (north) on the westbound side
	Hamburg		30	Hamburg
	Greenwich Township		35	PA 143 – Lenhartsville
			40	PA 737 – Kutztown, Krumsville	To Kutztown University
Lehigh	Weisenberg Township		45	PA 863 – Lynnport, New Smithville
	Upper Macungie Township		49A	PA 100 south – Trexlertown
			49B	PA 100 north – Fogelsville
				I-78 east – New Jersey	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance, east end of I-78 overlap, I-78 exit 51
				SR 1002 (Tilghman Street) – Cetronia, Kuhnsville	Former routing of US 22 through Allentown
	South Whitehall Township			I-476 / Penna. Tpk. – Scranton, Philadelphia	Toll road
				PA 309 south – Quakertown	To I-78 east and Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
				PA 309 north – Tamaqua	To Lehigh Carbon Community College
				Cedar Crest Boulevard	To Muhlenberg College and Cedar Crest College
				15th Street
	Whitehall Township			PA 145 south (MacArthur Road/7th Street)	To Allentown Center City
				PA 145 north (MacArthur Road)	To Lehigh Valley Mall and Whitehall Mall
				Fullerton Avenue
	Hanover Township			PA 987 north (Airport Road) – LVI Airport	Southern terminus of PA 987
	Bethlehem			PA 378 south – Bethlehem	To Lehigh University, Historic Bethlehem, Sands Casino Resort; Formerly I-378
Northampton				Schoenersville Road
	Hanover Township			PA 512 (Center Street)	To Moravian College
	Bethlehem Township			PA 191 (Nazareth Pike)	To Northampton Community College
				PA 33 to I-78 – Bethlehem, Stroudsburg
	Palmer Township			PA 248 (25th Street) – Wilson	To Palmer Heights and Easton
	Easton			13th Street
				PA 248 / PA 611 / 4th Street	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
				3rd Street	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance, to Lafayette College
				PA 611 – Easton	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
				US 22 east	Easton-Phillipsburg Toll Bridge over Delaware River, New Jersey border
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

Bannered routes

Monroeville business loop

U.S. Route 22 Business
Location:	Monroeville, Pennsylvania

U.S. Route 22 Business is a 5-mile loop through the eastern Pittsburgh suburbs of Churchill, Wilkins Township, and Monroeville, Pennsylvania. The route's western terminus is at a freeway junction with Interstate 376, which features cosignment by the business loop's parent route. The first two miles of the road are contained in a valley, surrounded by a variety of side roads leading to suburban, mostly residential development. The remaining three miles feature dense commercial development, including several office high rises and the Monroeville Mall. The highway ends at a complicated junction that features the northern terminus of Pennsylvania Route 48, the southern end of Haymaker Road, and Interstate 376, which features its last two exits (before the Pennsylvania Turnpike) with the above streets. Business US 22 then travels for its final eighth of a mile on a viaduct that allows for connections with the Pennsylvania Turnpike and a smooth transition on to US 22 east toward affluent suburban Murrysville, Pennsylvania.

Lewistown business loop

U.S. Route 22 Business
Location:	Lewistown, Pennsylvania

U.S. Route 22 Business is a 6-mile loop through Lewistown, Pennsylvania. It serves as the major through street, taking on the former designation of its parent, which has become a freeway bypass. The first two miles of the route travel through rural Granville Township. The middle two mile segment is lined with small development and features several stop lights and a segment that contains a center turning lane. The last two miles wind along the Juniata River toward the eastern freeway juncture.

References

1. ^ DeLorme Street Atlas USA 2007 software, Driving Directions
2. ^ http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2011/08/pennsylvania_commission_delive.html
3. ^ ^{a b} "William Penn Highway: US 22 in Pennsylvania". Federal Highway Administration. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us22.htm. Retrieved 2007-06-26. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Butko, Brian A.; Kevin Joseph Patrick (1999). Diners of Pennsylvania. Stackpole Books. ISBN 0811728781. 
5. ^ ^{a b} Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1930 state map, front side (Map). ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Statewide/Historic_OTMs/1930fr.pdf. Retrieved 2007-06-26. 
6. ^ Public Law 191, passed April 8, 1925
7. ^ ^{a b} Dickinson, Leon A. (February 1, 1931). "Highways Into the Deep South". New York Times. p. 136. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60616F93E55147A93C3A91789D85F458385F9. Retrieved 2009-08-14. "Here one meets and follows U.S. Route 22 through Bethlehem to Allentown; then along Route 43 direct to Harrisburg." 
8. ^ Pennsylvania Department of Highways (1929). Allentown Area Map (Map). http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/Midatlantic/Pennsylvania/bluebook1929_003.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24. 
9. ^ Pennsylvania Department of Highways (1930). State Map, back side (Map). ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Statewide/Historic_OTMs/1930bk.pdf. Retrieved 2007-07-24. 
10. ^ Pennsylvania Department of Highways. 1941 Lehigh County Map (Map). ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_PDF_FILES/Maps/Type_10_GHS_Historical_Scans/Lehigh_1941.pdf. Retrieved 2007-06-25. 

External links

• US 22 In Pennsylvania Exits

U.S. Route 22
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