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| Leaving The PA Turnpike, We headed south on US 1;
This is a squished-up olde school elevated junction, complete with appropriately olde SINES! |
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| The Old Lincoln Highway is down this road.... |
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| 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 |
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| Looking down the remains of the old roadbed. |
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| A view of the bridge from the stream bank. |
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| I think this is a later addition,
intended to stabilize the bridge. |
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| The masonry is falling apart at this abutment.
(thanx Captain Obvious!) |
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| A rerun of the snap above. You wanted to see that anyway. |
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| 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. |
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| The road splits up-adding the outer carriageway |
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| 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. |
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| Okay. Woodhaven Road. For real. |
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| Sometimes you can turn left from the mainline of Roosevelt.
Mostly you can’t. The yellow sine is a photographic control warning. |
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| You&8217;ll see this one a few times. |
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| 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. |
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| A CROSS OVER to the outer carriageway.
To make a left turn at Grant Avenue, you have to leave here. |
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| 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. |
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| Closeup of the sine in the above snap.
Done inna pretentious artsy phartsy stylee, so as to reinforce my Kewlness level. |
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| CROSS OVER for the Pennypack Circle.
Mainline Roosevelt Boulevard goes under the roundabout. |
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| That’s what we’re fixing to do here. |
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| After packing our pennies, we found this
OG CA stylee advance sine for the PA 73 junction. |
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| The PA 73 junction is done feeder road stylee;
with the outer carriageways taking on that role. |
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| A CROSS OVER from outer to inner with an extra directional sine. |
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| The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge turn is only done from the mainline.
So ya get this spiffen sine. |
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| Squint rilly hard for this City sine for the US 13 junction. |
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| 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. |
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| Another CROSS OVER-this time with a newer sine.
This is for another roundabout junction. |
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| This one here; at PA 232.
The outer highways cut through the circle; which is what accounts for the mainline trench. |
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| The southern overpass of the junction.
I was Quick Draw Mc Graw on the shutter button. |
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| A great huge turn to the west at the Adams Avenue eastern junction. |
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| 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. |
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| A City of Philadelphia US 1 Sine and a PENNTRANS US 13 sine.
Together again for the first time. |
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| We're a good mile from the beginning of the freeway.
But what the hey, it never hurts to advertise early and often. |
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| The Real Estate agent told me this house was “Half Off” |
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| A spiffen button-copy-licious sine set advertising
the Upcoming US 1 and US 13 Divorce. |
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| 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. |
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| On the freeway, getting ready to pass under US 13. |
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| 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. |
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| The 16th Street Overpass and end of the depressed freeway. |
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| Barely caught this one. Way OG.
This is the on-slip from Cayuga Road. |
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| The freeway goes over a railway between Clarissa and Roberts Streets. |
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| Advance warning for the Fox Street/Henry Street junction. |
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| EXITS. We’re crossing under Fox Street. |
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| Yr last chance to leave the freeway before the IH 76 ahead. |
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| A railway overpass just before the Ridge Avenue/Kelly Street junction. |
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| OG Button copy guide sines on the elevated approaching the IH 76. |
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| And here’s the split-US 1 follows IH 76 west. |
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| 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? |
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| 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. |
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| This pretty well illustrates what I said above.
the IH 76 mainline is to your right. |
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| Finally, here’s the split. |
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| 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. |
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| Presidential Boulevard junction and fancy sine on a pedestrian overpass. |
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| Not quite so impressive sine and signal mast rot at the same junction. |
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| 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. |
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| Even the SCHOOL SPEED LIMIT sines are on mast arms in Philly. |
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| It’s just mast-arm-orric ’round these parts! |
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| Kinda a funky looking Dawghouse install here, eh? |
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| 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. |
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