Information AboutI-376 |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT INTERSTATE 376 | |
| interstate 70 | |
| 376 | |
| three-digit interstate highways | |
| 76-3 | |
| interstate highways in pennsylvania | |
| pittsburgh, pennsylvania | |
| lincoln highway | |
| u.s. route 30 | |
| american parkways | |
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Interstate 376 (abbreviated '''I-376''') is an east-west U.S. Interstate Highway spur route that lies entirely within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania . It is the primary access route between Pittsburgh and its eastern suburbs, and is locally known as "Parkway East". LENGTH The highway is about 14 miles long, terminating in downtown Pittsburgh at Interstate 279 and at Monroeville, Pennsylvania at Interstate 76 (the Pennsylvania Turnpike ) and U.S. Highway 22 . I-376 is connected to the southern end of Interstate 579 by the Boulevard of Allies. I-376 is a total of six lanes for most of its length. However, it is only four lanes through the Squirrel Hill Tunnel , a major cause of congestion. A planned extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike , the James J. Manderino Highway (PA Turnpike 43), is being designed with an east and west northern terminus that will allow traffic to bypass the tunnel once the highway is completed. Prior to 1974, the highway was signed as Interstate 76, but was relocated onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike when the Federal Highway Administration dropped the so-called "suffixed" Interstate Highway routes (it was numbered between 1960 and 1974 as "I-80S") in the mid-1970's. EXPANSION Recently the U.S. Congress has designated an expansion of I-376 past the Downtown Pittsburgh area and along present day near Trenton when the I-95/ Pennsylvania Turnpike interchange is completed in 2009) its parent highway at the New Castle exit, where PA Route 60 is part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike system, and ending at another major Interstate. This routing requires some major infrasturcture work on U.S. Highway 22 west of Downtown Pittsburgh and on PA Route 60, though both are presently limited access highways they are not up to national "interstate standards". CITIES AND TOWNS ALONG THE ROUTE (FROM WEST TO EAST)
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INTERCHANGES FROM WEST TO EAST Pennsylvania EXTERNAL LINKS
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