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| Transport |
Ben Franklin Bridge |
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| Public transportation |
| Philadelphia is served by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA. SEPTA runs buses, trains, subways, trolleys, and trackless trolleys around Philadelphia and into the suburbs. |
| Philadelphia lies directly on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. Amtrak's 30th Street Station is a major railroad facility which offers access to Amtrak, SEPTA, and NJ Transit rail lines. |
| PATCO provides subway service to Camden, Collingswood, Haddonfield, Cherry Hill, Ashland, and Lindenwold, New Jersey, from stations on Locust Street between 16th and 15th, 13th and 12th, and 10th and 9th Streets, and on Market Street at 8th Street. |
| Airports |
| Two airports, Philadelphia International Airport and Northeast Philadelphia Airport, reside within the city limits (Philadelphia International also lies in the city limits of Tinicum Township, Delaware County). Philadelphia International Airport provides domestic and international scheduled air service, while Northeast Philadelphia Airport serves general and corporate aviation. |
| Roads |
| Interstate 95 runs through the city along the Delaware River, providing transportation from Florida to Maine. |
| The city is also served by Interstate 76 (the Schuylkill Expressway), which runs along the Schuylkill River. It meets the Pennsylvania Turnpike at King of Prussia and provides access to Harrisburg and points west. |
| Interstate 676, the Vine Street Expressway, was completed in 1991 after years of planning. A link between I-95 and I-76, it runs beneath street level through Center City, and connects to the Ben Franklin Bridge at its east end. |
| Roosevelt Boulevard and the Roosevelt Expressway (US 1) connects Northeast Philadelphia with Center City. The boulevard was built for the Lincoln Highway as part of the City Beautiful movement. In recent years, it has become a traffic bottleneck and includes the #2 and #3 worst intersections in the country about a mile from each other, according to a study by State Farm Insurance. |
| The Woodhaven Expressway (PA 63), serving the neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, runs between Interstate 95 and Roosevelt Boulevard (US 1). Plans to extend the highway west into the suburbs were killed by community opposition. |
| The Delaware River Port Authority operates three bridges in Philadelphia over the Delaware River to New Jersey: the Walt Whitman Bridge (I-76), the Benjamin Franklin Bridge (I-676 and US 30), and the Betsy Ross Bridge (NJ 90). The Tacony-Palmyra Bridge connects PA 73 with NJ 73, and is maintained by the Burlington County Bridge Commission. |
| Opened in the early 1990s, the Northeast Extension (276 & 476) connects highways south of Philly International Airport to ones north of the city. The stretch of 476 between 95 and the toll portion of 476 (running North from the Mid-County Interchange at Plymouth Meeting) is referred to locally as "The Blue Route," because regional planners drew a blue line right through Montgomery and Delaware Counties to suggest where a road ought to be built. The construction of 476 between 76 and 95 took much longer than expected due to community opposition and stubborn landowners. Shortly after it was completed, though, it became one of the busiest corridors in the region. |
Other planned freeways have been cancelled, such as an Interstate 695 running southwest from downtown and a freeway upgrade of Roosevelt Boulevard.
Early railroads
Philadelphia was an early railroad hub. The following railroads,
almost all radiating from downtown, were built in the mid-19th
century:
- 1832: Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad
(http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/
special/railroad.htm)
- 1834: Delaware and Schuylkill Railroad
(only in downtown)
(http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/
special/railroad.htm)
- 1834: Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad
(later Pennsylvania Railroad main line)
(http://www.columbiahistoric.com/RAILROAD.HTM)
- 1834: Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad
(http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~wdstock/railroad.htm)
- 1834: Camden and Amboy Railroad
(http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/
Corphist/urrnj.html)
- 1835: Southwark Railroad (only in downtown)
(http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/
Corphist/pb_w.html)
- 1835?: Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
(http://www.ushistory.org/philadelphia/
special/railroad.htm)
- 1837: Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
(http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/
Corphist/pb_w.html)
- 1839: Camden and Woodbury Railroad
(http://www.earlpleasants.com/search_1.asp)
- 1850: relocation of Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad
(later Pennsylvania Railroad main line)
(http://www.railsandtrails.com/PRR/BOD1948/history.html)
- 1854: West Chester and Philadelphia Railroad
(http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his480/notes/rr-1.htm)
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