Interstate 676
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Interstate 676 (abbreviated I-676) is an interstate highway that serves as a major thoroughfare through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey. Its northwestern terminus is at Interstate 76 in Philadelphia near the Philadelphia Museum of Art, heading east towards the Ben Franklin Bridge. On the east (New Jersey) side of the bridge, the highway heads south to its southeastern terminus at Interstate 76 in Gloucester City, New Jersey near the Walt Whitman Bridge.
I-676 is signed east-west in Pennsylvania but north-south in New Jersey.
Building onramps to the Ben Franklin Bridge would have effectively destroyed Franklin Square (Philadelphia), a historically sensitive site. Therefore, traffic from I-676 or Interstate 95 to the bridge is directed through city streets, meaning that this portion of I-676 is not (and probably never will be) up to freeway standards. There does exist a direct freeway connection to Interstate 95. Aerial photo Photos: Eastbound surface road from [1], Westbound traffic light from [2].
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation maps show the connection to I-95 as I-676, and the bridge connection as US 30 (which is multiplexed with I-676 from its west end to downtown Camden). All signs show I-676 using the bridge. I-676 is called the "Vine Street Expressway" in Philadelphia, where it was built underneath Vine Street itself in an open cut, and as the "Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Highway" in Camden.
I-676 was known as Interstate 680 in Philadelphia until 1964, when I-80S was renumbered I-76.[1]
[edit] Length
- Pennsylvania: 2.15 miles (3.44 km)
- New Jersey: 4.75 miles (7.6 km)
Control "cities" are as follows:
- Central Philadelphia
- Ben Franklin Bridge
- Camden, New Jersey Waterfront
- Atlantic City, New Jersey
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- NJDOT Straight Line Diagrams
- I-676 on Pennsylvania Highways
- I-676 on NorthEastRoads.com
- I-676 on Interstate-Guide.com
- Vine Street Expressway (I-676) on PhillyRoads.com
- Interstate 676 (New Jersey) on PhillyRoads.com
Auxiliary routes of Interstate 76 | |
I-176 | Pennsylvania |
I-276 | Pennsylvania |
I-376 | Pennsylvania |
I-476 | Pennsylvania |
I-576 | Pennsylvania |
I-676 | Pennsylvania/New Jersey |
past/ future |
I-876: Pennsylvania |
Browse numbered routes | ||||
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< PA 670 | PA | PA 690 > | ||
< NJ 495 | NJ | I-695 > |
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