Interstate 76 (Ohio–New Jersey)

OTIC, PTC, PennDOT, DRPA, and NJDOT
Length	435.66 mi[2] (701.13 km)
Existed	1964[1]–present
NHS	Entire route
Major junctions
West end	I-71 / US 224 near Westfield Center, OH
Major intersections	I-77 in Akron, OH I-80 / Ohio Turnpike near Youngstown, OH I-79 / US 19 in Cranberry Township, PA I-70 in New Stanton, PA US 220 Bus. in Bedford, PA I-70 in Breezewood, PA I-83 near Harrisburg, PA I-276 / Penna Turnpike in King of Prussia, PA I-95 in Philadelphia, PA
East end	I-295 / Route 42 in Bellmawr, NJ
Location
Country	United States
States	Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
Counties	OH: Medina, Summit, Portage, Mahoning PA: Lawrence, Beaver, Butler, Allegheny, Westmoreland, Somerset, Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon, Franklin, Cumberland, York, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancaster, Berks, Chester, Montgomery, Philadelphia NJ: Camden
Highway system
Interstate Highway System Main Auxiliary Suffixed Business Future
← Route 76 76C → Route 77

Interstate 76 (I-76) is an east–west

Just west of Youngstown, I-76 joins the Ohio Turnpike and heads around the south side of Youngstown. In Pennsylvania, I-76 runs across most of the state on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, passing near Pittsburgh and Harrisburg before leaving the turnpike at Valley Forge. At Valley Forge, I-76 becomes the Schuylkill Expressway, eventually enters Philadelphia, and then crosses the Walt Whitman Bridge into New Jersey. After only about three miles (4.8 km) in New Jersey, I-76 reaches its eastern terminus, though the freeway continues as Route 42 and the Atlantic City Expressway (A.C. Expressway) to Atlantic City.

Route description

Ohio

I-76 begins at exit 209 of

The interchange with I-80 west of Youngstown, Ohio

Leaving the Akron area, I-76 again heads through rural areas, crossing Portage County and entering Mahoning County. West of Youngstown, the freeway intersects the Ohio Turnpike and I-80 via a double trumpet interchange. I-76 joins the Ohio Turnpike heading southeast toward Pittsburgh while I-80 exits the Turnpike and continues east toward Youngstown. The Ohio Turnpike carries I-76 until the Pennsylvania border, where I-76 joins the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Turnpike

From the

From

At Valley Forge, northwest of Philadelphia, I-76 leaves the Pennsylvania Turnpike to run into Philadelphia on the

After the Grays Ferry Avenue exit near University City, I-76 crosses the Schuylkill Expressway Bridge to go toward the South Philadelphia Sports Complex near Lincoln Financial Field, Wells Fargo Center, and Citizens Bank Park.

The last interchange before the

Just after crossing the Delaware River on the Walt Whitman Bridge, I-76 turns south and becomes the

From the exit for I-676 to the end, I-76 originally had local–express lanes in both directions; the barriers in both directions, however, have been removed due to rebuilding of the I-295, I-76, and Route 42 interchange. I-76 ends at an interchange with I-295 on the Mount Ephraim–Bellmawr town line. The road becomes Route 42, continuing south on the North–South Freeway and then feeding into the A.C. Expressway to Atlantic City. While the South Jersey Transportation Authority (which owns the A.C. Expressway) is not against the idea of making the freeway section of Route 42 and the A.C. Expressway an eastern extension of I-76, they feel that making the change without a compelling reason would only add to motorists' confusion in southern New Jersey.^[6]

History

The majority of I-76 along the

In 1957, the route from Cleveland east to Harrisburg, running roughly along the SR 14 corridor in Ohio and the turnpike in Pennsylvania, was labeled I-80, and the rest of the route from Harrisburg to Philadelphia was assigned I-80S. (I-80N would have run from Harrisburg to New York City.) I-78 was assigned to a route from Norwalk, paralleling SR 18 through Akron to Youngstown and turning south there to end at the planned I-80.

The 1957 numbering, however, was drawn on a map from 1947, which did not include several changes that had been approved, specifically the

I-80 was realigned in Ohio by 1962, largely taking over former I-80N, which ran through Cleveland, joining the turnpike southwest of Cleveland. However, while I-80N was planned to split from I-80 near Kent and run northwest to Cleveland along SR 14, the new alignment of I-80 used the turnpike between the crossing west of Youngstown and the crossing with SR 14 at Streetsboro. The former I-80 from near Youngstown west to Akron became part of I-80S, as did a new alignment (already built as US 224) from Akron west to I-71 east of Lodi; the rest of proposed I-80 west to near Norwalk (which would have crossed I-71 near Medina) was removed from the Interstate Highway System. I-80 was moved to the turnpike between Streetsboro and southwest of Cleveland c. 1971; the old route became I-480.

On April 16, 1963, due in part to the extension of I-79 south from Greater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania proposed a partial renumbering. A new number, tentatively designated I-76, would run from Downtown Pittsburgh east on what was then I-70 (I-70S bypassed Pittsburgh to the south on what is now I-70) to the Pennsylvania Turnpike at Monroeville, and then east along the remainder of I-80S to I-295. I-80S would remain on the section of turnpikes from west of Youngstown to Monroeville. This was approved February 26, 1964, and included the renumbering of all I-X80 spurs to I-X76.^[1]

On June 29, 1970, a renumbering was approved in the Pittsburgh area, with the main effect being rerouting I-79 to bypass Pittsburgh to the west on the former

On August 29, 1972, a swap of I-76 and I-676 in Philadelphia and Camden was approved. I-76 had been routed along the Vine Street Expressway and Ben Franklin Bridge (now I-676) through Center City, while I-676 used the Schuylkill Expressway and Walt Whitman Bridge to bypass downtown to the south. The switch was made because of delays in building the Vine Street Expressway, better interchange geometry at the splits, and that the Ben Franklin Bridge ends in city streets, rather than in expressway grade.

The renumbering of a Philadelphia Interstate to I-76 in the years leading up to the

In Ohio and Pennsylvania, the routes are composed mostly of turnpikes with the exceptions in east-central Ohio and the Delaware Valley. The exit numbers on the turnpike portions in Ohio follow the mileage markers for the Ohio Turnpike.

Ohio

County	Location	mi[7]	km	Exit	Destinations	Notes
US 224 west – Lodi	Continuation west; west end of US 224 overlap
	1	Cleveland	Signed as exits 1A (south) and 1B (north) westbound; I-71 exits 209A-B
	Seville	2.32	3.73	2	SR 3 – Medina, Seville
	Wadsworth	7.72	12.42	7	SR 57 – Rittman, Medina
		9.76	15.71	9	SR 94 – North Royalton, Wadsworth
		11.71	18.85	11	SR 261 – Norton, Wadsworth
Cleveland	Signed as exits 13A (south) and 13B (north)
	14.65	23.58	14	Cleveland–Massillon Road
	16.19	26.06	16	Barber Road
	Barberton	17.53	28.21	17	State Street to SR 619 (East Avenue / Wooster Road)	Former partial diamond interchange; reconstructed to a full diamond interchange to increase the distance from I-277/Kenmore Leg interchange
		17.83	28.69		SR 619 (East Avenue / Wooster Road) – Barberton	Westbound entrance via State Street
	US 224 east – Canton	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; east end of US 224 overlap; I-277 exit 1
		19.04	30.64	19	Battles Avenue / Kenmore Boulevard
		20.45	32.91	20	Cleveland	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; west end of I-77 overlap; exit number not signed westbound
		20.79	33.46	21A	East Avenue	Westbound exit closed from January 2022 to December 2023 for reconstruction[8]
		21.59	34.75	21B	Lakeshore Boulevard, Bowery Street	Eastbound exit and entrance
		21.73	34.97	21C	Downtown	Eastbound signage
		21.77	35.04		To SR 59 east / Dart Avenue	Westbound signage
		22.39	36.03	22	Main Street, Broadway Street – Downtown	Was exit 22A before Wolf Ledges/Grant Street exit was removed
		22.79	36.68	22B	Wolf Ledges, Grant Street	Closed June 14, 2017[9]
		23.57	37.93	23	Cleveland	East end of I-77 overlap; signed as exits 23A (north) and 23B (south)
		23.83	38.35	24A	Inman Street, Johnston Street	Former westbound exit only; closed November 7, 2021[8]
		24.34	39.17	24	Arlington Street	Westbound signage; was exit 24B before Inman Street/Johnston Street exit was removed
		24.71	39.77		Arlington Street, Kelly Avenue	Eastbound signage
		25.00	40.23	25A	SR 241 (Innovation Way)	Signed as exit 25 westbound
		25.67	41.31	25B	Brittain Road	Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
		26.11	42.02	26	SR 526 )
	Springfield Township	27.35	44.02	27	Gilchrist Road, Canton Road to SR 91
	Tallmadge	29.00	46.67	29	SR 532 – Mogadore, Tallmadge
Brimfield Township	31.31	50.39	31	CR 18 (Tallmadge Road)
	33.04	53.17	33	SR 43 – Kent, Hartville
	Rootstown Township	38.53	62.01	38	SR 5 east / SR 44 – Ravenna	Signed as exits 38A (south) and 38B (north) eastbound
	Edinburg Township	43.07	69.31	43	SR 14 – Alliance, Ravenna
	Palmyra Township	48.58	78.18	48	SR 225 – Alliance
Mahoning	Milton Township	54.04	86.97	54	SR 534 – Lake Milton, Newton Falls
	Jackson Township	57.25	92.13	57	To SR 45 / Bailey Road – Warren
		59.85	96.32	218 (WB) 219 (EB)	Cleveland
					CR 18 (Mahoning Avenue)	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Overlap with Ohio Turnpike
	Pittsburgh	Continuation into Pennsylvania
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Concurrency terminus       Closed/former       Incomplete access        Tolled

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

The entire route is in Camden County.

Location	mi[10]	km	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Philadelphia	Continuation into Pennsylvania
	Walt Whitman Bridge (westbound toll in Pennsylvania)
Route 76C ; no westbound access to US 130/Route 168; southern terminus of I-676
US 130 – Collingswood, Brooklawn, Westville	Signed as exits 1D (north) and 1C (south); no eastbound access to US 130 north
I-295 to N.J. Turnpike – Trenton, Delaware Memorial Bridge	Signed as exits 1B (north) and 1A (south); no westbound access to I-295 south; exits 26-27 on I-295
	–	Route 42 south to A.C. Expressway east – Atlantic City	Continuation south
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Closed/former       Incomplete access        Tolled

Auxiliary routes

• I-176 runs north from I-76 at Morgantown, Pennsylvania, to US 422 outside of Reading, Pennsylvania.
• I-276 runs east from I-76 at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, along the Pennsylvania Turnpike to I-95 in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania
  .
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, becomes a toll road northwest of the airport, intersects I-76 again, and terminates at I-80 in Sharon, Pennsylvania
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• auxiliary Interstate
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• PA 576 is a planned, partially completed, southern bypass of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, though it could become I-576.
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in violation of Interstate Highway standards
  .
• I-876 was the number for present I-579
  in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the early 1970s.
• Interstate 76 Alternate (I-76 Alt.) is an incident bypass route located in Summit County, Ohio, that runs along SR 21 and I-77 between Norton, Ohio, and Akron, Ohio.
• Interstate 76 Connector (I-76 Conn.) is an unsigned business route located in Camden, New Jersey, that runs from the I-76 and I-676 interchange to Route 168. It interchanges US 130 before reaching its eastern terminus.

See also

•  
  U.S. Roads portal
•  New Jersey portal
•  Ohio portal
•  Pennsylvania portal
•  Philadelphia portal

References

External links

KML file (edit • help)

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Interstate 76 (Ohio–New Jersey).

• Geographic data related to Interstate 76 (Ohio–New Jersey) at OpenStreetMap
• Interstate 76 (Eastern) at Interstate-Guide.com
• The Roads of Metro Philadelphia: Interstate 76 - New Jersey
• New Jersey Roads - I-76
• I-76 New Jersey at AARoads.com