Pennsylvania Route 611

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PA Route 611
Length:	102 mi[1] (164 km)
Formed:	1972
South end:	I-95 in South Philadelphia
Major junctions:	I-76 in Philadelphia I-676 in Philadelphia US-1 in Philadelphia I-276 north of Willow Grove US-202 in Doylestown I-78 in Easton US-22 in Easton I-80 in Stroudsburg
North end:	I-380 in Tobyhanna Township
Counties:	Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Northampton, Monroe
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Pennsylvania Route 611 is a state highway in Pennsylvania, United States, running from Interstate 95 south of downtown Philadelphia north to Interstate 380 at Tobyhanna Township, Pennsylvania.

Within Philadelphia, PA 611 is also Broad Street.

Contents 1 Major intersections 2 History 2.1 US 611 in New Jersey and US 611 Alternate 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Major intersections

County	Location	Mile	Road(s)	Notes
Philadelphia	Philadelphia	0.0	I-95	Exit 17 (I-95).
			I-76	Exit 349 (I-76).
			PA 3	Eastern terminus of PA 3.
			I-676/US 30	Interchange.
			US 13
			US 1	PA 611 passes over US 1.
	East Oak Lane		PA 309	Interchange. Southern terminus of PA 309.
Montgomery	Cheltenham Township		PA 73
	Willow Grove		PA 63
			PA 263	Southern terminus of PA 263.
	Upper Moreland Township		I-276/PA Tpk	Exit 343 (I-276/PA Turnpike).
	Horsham		PA 463	Eastern terminus of PA 463.
Bucks	Warrington Township		PA 132	Western terminus of PA 132.
	Doylestown Township		US 202	Interchange. Southern terminus of duplex.
			US 202	Interchange. Northern terminus of duplex.
			PA 313	Interchange.
	Bedminster Township		PA 413	Northern terminus of PA 413.
	Tinicum Township		PA 113	Northern terminus of PA 113.
	Nockamixon Township		PA 412	Southern terminus of PA 412.
			PA 32	Northern terminus of PA 32.
	Durham Township		PA 212	Eastern terminus of PA 212.
Northampton	Williams Township		I-78	PA 611 passes under I-78.
	Easton		PA 248	The eastern terminus of PA 248.
			US 22 Lehigh Valley Thruway	Interchange.
	Upper Mount Bethel Township		PA 512	Northern terminus of PA 512.
Monroe	Smithfield Township		I-80	Exit 310 (I-80).
	Stroudsburg		PA 191
			I-80/US 209	Exit 307 (I-80).
			US 209 BUS	Southern terminus of duplex.
			US 209 BUS	Northern terminus of duplex.
	Stroud Township		PA 33	Northern terminus of PA 33.
	Pocono Township		PA 715	Southern terminus of duplex.
			PA 715	Northern terminus of duplex.
			PA 314	Southern terminus of duplex.
			PA 314	Northern terminus of duplex.
	Mount Pocono		PA 940	Southern terminus of duplex.
			PA 196	Southern terminus of PA 196.
			PA 940	Northern terminus of duplex.
	Tobyhanna		PA 423
			I-380	Exit 8 (I-380).

Legend
Crossing, no access	Concurrency termini	Decommissioned	Unconstructed	Closed

[edit] History

Until 1972, it was U.S. Route 611, and continued north to U.S. Route 11 in Scranton. However, that year, the road north of Tobyhanna was modified into an expressway (freeway) and became an extension of Interstate 380, and the portion south of Tobyhanna was decommissioned to a state highway. Route 611's southern terminus had always been in Center City Philadelphia at the junction with Route 3; it was extended south to I-95 in 1987.

[edit] US 611 in New Jersey and US 611 Alternate

Until 1953, US 611 was exclusively in Pennsylvania. In late 1953, the Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge and Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge were completed, as was the freeway through the Delaware Water Gap connecting them on the east (New Jersey) side of the Delaware River. The Delaware Bridge several miles south-east, which U.S. Route 46 used to cross, was abandoned at that point and later destroyed in 1955 by Hurricane Diane. The freeway had been planned as a realignment of U.S. Route 46, but instead US 611 was rerouted from its all-Pennsylvania route to cross the river twice in order to use the better-quality road on the New Jersey side. The Portland-Delaware Water Gap section of U.S. 611 became U.S. Route 611 Alternate. Route 46, therefore, no longer crossed into Pennsylvania; its western terminus became the junction with U.S. 611 at the intersection at the Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge.

North of the Portland-Columbia Bridge, the road widened from two to four lanes. Less than a mile north was a three-way intersection with only a caution light where Route 94 began and ran north. North of that intersection, Route 611 became a four-lane divided freeway and crossed the Delaware River a few miles further north on the Delaware Water Gap Toll bridge. After crossing into Pennsylvania, the divided highway narrowed again for a mile to a four lane road and curved into downtown Delaware Water Gap. There it intersected U.S. 611 Alternate and continued on to Stroudsburg. In 1959, it was announced that Interstate 80 would be designated on the freeway, and upon its completion in 1965, the road was signed as both U.S. 611 and Interstate 80. The freeway was later extended to bypass Stroudsburg, and U.S. Route 209 was realigned onto the freeway a mile past the Delaware Water Gap Bridge as well. (The old alignment of U.S. 209 was redesignated as U.S. 209 Business.)

By 1972, Interstate 80 became the exclusive route for this area of freeway, and by the end of 1973 the New Jersey portion of Interstate 80 was also complete. From 1972-73, the roads on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River were extensively realigned into a complex group of ramps. At this point, U.S. 611 was realigned to its former Pennsylvania alignment and became Pennsylvania Route 611 (due to the completion of the Interstate 380 freeway, and its terminus there 25 miles south of U.S. 11 in Scranton). Route 94 continued to serve this new interchange, as would U.S. 46. U.S. 46 was realigned to the former U.S. 611 alignment, terminating at Interstate 80 at the new interchange. The Columbia-Portland Bridge approaches on the New Jersey side were rebuilt to feed directly into Route 94. The only U.S. 611 shield in New Jersey is located on the approach to the Columbia-Portland bridge from U.S. 46 East.

[edit] References

1. ^ Pennsylvania Highways - Pennsylvania Route 611

[edit] External links

• PA 611 Junction List