US 1 Southbound through Philadelphia.


Leaving The PA Turnpike, We headed south on US 1;
This is a squished-up olde school elevated junction,
complete with appropriately olde SINES!
The Old Lincoln Highway is down this road....
Here is an OLD Lincoln Highway bridge over the Poquessing Creek;
Just beyond the end of the above road.
it may date from the 191X’s
Looking down the remains of the old roadbed.
A view of the bridge from the stream bank.
I think this is a later addition,
intended to stabilize the bridge.
The masonry is falling apart at this abutment.
(thanx Captain Obvious!)
A rerun of the snap above. You wanted to see that anyway.
Back to THIS century.
We appear to meet PA 63 at the end of Woodhaven Road Expressway.
Not rilly, tho. This is the start of the
Roosevelt Boulevard dual-dual configuration.
The cute baby sines are done by the City of Philadelphia.
The road splits up-adding the outer carriageway
The cross slip to the outer highway for PA 63 east.
Still not rilly Woodhaven Road, as that's still south of here.
Cool CA Stylee sine, tho.
Okay. Woodhaven Road. For real.
Sometimes you can turn left from the mainline of Roosevelt.
Mostly you can’t.
The yellow sine is a photographic control warning.
You&8217;ll see this one a few times.
This is the outer carriageway signal for a local road.
It goes to the northwest-it doesn’t cross Roosevelt;
So you don’t need to turn left. Unless yr a criminal.
A CROSS OVER to the outer carriageway.
To make a left turn at Grant Avenue, you have to leave here.
A mainline left for an airport service road.
Oddly the outer carriageway is also signalled;
even though there’s no CROSS OVER.
Prolly a pedestrian signal.
Closeup of the sine in the above snap.
Done inna pretentious artsy phartsy stylee,
so as to reinforce my Kewlness level.
CROSS OVER for the Pennypack Circle.
Mainline Roosevelt Boulevard goes under the roundabout.
That’s what we’re fixing to do here.
After packing our pennies, we found this
OG CA stylee advance sine for the PA 73 junction.
The PA 73 junction is done feeder road stylee;
with the outer carriageways taking on that role.
A CROSS OVER from outer to inner with an extra directional sine.
The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge turn is only done from the mainline.
So ya get this spiffen sine.
Squint rilly hard for this City sine for the US 13 junction.
At the US 13 North junction; also the turn for the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge.
US 13 runs along two one-way streets from here.
It turns eventually; but if you continued past US 13,
You end up at the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge.
Another CROSS OVER-this time with a newer sine.
This is for another roundabout junction.
This one here; at PA 232.
The outer highways cut through the circle;
which is what accounts for the mainline trench.
The southern overpass of the junction.
I was Quick Draw Mc Graw on the shutter button.
A great huge turn to the west at the Adams Avenue eastern junction.
Roosevelt Blvd has short east west section;
taking over the line of Adams Avenue.
The CROSS OVER for the western junction is ahead.
You’ll note you can’t CROSS OVER here.
A City of Philadelphia US 1 Sine and a PENNTRANS US 13 sine.
Together again for the first time.
We're a good mile from the beginning of the freeway.
But what the hey, it never hurts to advertise early and often.
The Real Estate agent told me this house was “Half Off”
A spiffen button-copy-licious sine set advertising
the Upcoming US 1 and US 13 Divorce.
Another nifty Gantry and the Divorce is complete.
Welcome to the Roosevelt Expressway.
AA Roads has a nifty set of US 1 snaps,
including a nite shot of this gantry.
On the freeway, getting ready to pass under US 13.
The Broad Street Underpass on the Roosevelt Expressway.
This section of the freeway is depressed. I couldn’t cheer it up.
Not even with my scintillating wit.
The 16th Street Overpass and end of the depressed freeway.
Barely caught this one. Way OG.
This is the on-slip from Cayuga Road.
The freeway goes over a railway between Clarissa and Roberts Streets.
Advance warning for the Fox Street/Henry Street junction.
EXITS. We’re crossing under Fox Street.
Yr last chance to leave the freeway before the IH 76 ahead.
A railway overpass just before the Ridge Avenue/Kelly Street junction.
OG Button copy guide sines on the elevated approaching the IH 76.
And here’s the split-US 1 follows IH 76 west.
Actually, we haven’t joined the IH 76 yet:
But we get the advance sine, just the same.
Button Copy, sans shield, with the little hump bit for
the junction number ripped off and replaced with a pill stylee
junction plate. Now that’s class, innit?
Now we join IH 76. Sort of.
IH 76 traffic leaving for US 1 south joins at the left;
but you can also rejoin the mainline IH 76 from here.
It’s basically a left-hand collector-distributor road.
This pretty well illustrates what I said above.
the IH 76 mainline is to your right.
Finally, here’s the split.
On City Avenue Now, with a horribly forshortened signal.
I showed this snap to Chris Jordan, and he melted.
Had to collect him in a bucket before he went down the drain.
He’s better now. We got him some anti-liquefaction shots.
Presidential Boulevard junction and fancy sine on a pedestrian overpass.
Not quite so impressive sine and signal mast rot at the same junction.
A little further south we gets a bit more fancy.
The signal mast is painted real nice;
and the street sine gotsa Liberty Bell n’at.
Bloody shame the Interstate shield numbers look like Transport Lite.
Even the SCHOOL SPEED LIMIT sines are on mast arms in Philly.
It’s just mast-arm-orric ’round these parts!
Kinda a funky looking Dawghouse install here, eh?
Elevated junction for PA 320. The only one on this section of US 1.
AA Roads has a nice detail shot
of those button copy sines in the distance, by the way.
This is also the end of this section of the trip.