Interstate 695 (Pennsylvania)

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Interstate 695
Cancelled route of the Interstate Highway System

Length:

10 mi (16 km)

Southern end:

Interstate 95

Major
junctions:

Interstate 76

Northern end:

Broad Street

PA 690

PA 696

Interstate 695 was a proposed three-digit Interstate Highway that would connect Interstate 95 in Southwest Philadelphia, at the Philadelphia International Airport, with I-95 near the Delaware River waterfront near the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. Known as the "Cobbs Creek Expressway" between SW Philadelphia and Interstate 76 and the "Crosstown Expressway" between I-76 and the waterfront, I-695 was designed to alleviate traffic off of both I-76, I-95, and PA 291.

The project was cancelled due to residential opposition in both SW Philadelphia, South Philadelphia, and residents of Yeadon, in Delaware County over the proposed Interstate's right-of-way, which would have "cut" their communities in half, and would have spelled an end to Cobbs Creek Park. The money slated for construction of I-695 went to the purchase of buses for SEPTA, and for the construction of the R1-Airport Line connecting Amtrak's Northeast Corridor with the Philadelphia International Airport.

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