Pennsylvania Route 611

Pennsylvania Route 611
Route information
Maintained by PennDOT
Length	102 mi (164 km)
Existed	1972–present
Major junctions
Major intersections	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
Location
Country	United States
State	Pennsylvania
Counties	Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Northampton, Monroe
Highway system
Pennsylvania State Route System Interstate US State Scenic Legislative
← PA 607 → PA 616

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.

Major intersections

County	Location	mi	km	Destinations	Notes
Philadelphia	Philadelphia	0.0	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 (Willow Grove Exit) (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	Interchange.
	Module:Jctint/USA warning: Unused argument(s): street
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).
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

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.

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.

External links

• PA 611 Junction List