User:Pzoxicuvybtnrm/Pennsylvania Route 179

Pennsylvania Route 179 is a short, 1 mile long state highway in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The route serves as a connector between U.S. Route 202 and New Jersey Route 179, which PA 179 becomes upon crossing the New Jersey state line, via the town of New Hope.

PA 179 is part of what was once known as the Old York Road, a road that dates back to the American colonial era and connected New York City with Philadelphia and eventually ended at York. Today, portions of the roadway are still signed as York Road or Lower York Road; inside the town of New Hope, PA 179 is named Bridge Street. From at least 1935 until 1971, this route was part of US 202. In 1971, US 202 was re-routed slightly to the north of New Hope, where it now crosses the Delaware River at the New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge, and the former route was re-designated as PA 179, to correspond with the road it connects to at the state line, NJ 179.

Route description
The route begins at U.S. Route 202 in New Hope. From this interchange, the route begins eastward along York Road to Old York Road, where it becomes Bridge Street. It then passes by the community of Huffnagle, near which it meets Sugan Road. It then continues northeastward to Riverside Circle, where it turns slightly eastward before meeting the other end of Old York Road. Route 179 then meets Killtie Drive twice, because of how the road is oriented as a loop of PA 179. It then turns abruptly eastward at an intersection of Chestnut Street.

It then meets Union Square Drive and Stockton Avenue, along which is located a railroad, near the center of New Hope. The route the continues eastward before meeting PA 32 along the Delaware River. From here, the road becomes East Bridge Street as it crosses the Delaware River on the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge, meeting its terminus at the New Jersey state line, located at the center of the river. The road continues through Lambertville, New Jersey as New Jersey Route 179.

History

 * Cover Old York Road.
 * Partially cover the Lambertville-New Hope Bridge.
 * Cover U.S. Route 202's designation and alignments.
 * Cover U.S. Route 202's realignment onto freeways.
 * Cover Pennsylvania Route 179's designation in 1971.

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 * For the bridge, use the DJTBC link for the bridge below. I've provided you the Reftools gadget which will appear on your screen as a button looking like.