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2007

January/February

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Pennsylvania Route 29 is a 112 mile north-south state highway that runs through eastern Pennsylvania. The road used to be connected, but was split in 1966 due to long concurrencies with several other routes. PA 29 runs from U.S. Route 30 in Malvern to Brookdale where it continues eastward as New York State Route 7.

March

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Pennsylvania Route 65 (abbreviated PA 65) is a major 51 mile (83 km) long state highway located in western Pennsylvania, United States. The route, traveling north-south from the Interstate 279/U.S. Route 19 Truck concurrency in Pittsburgh north to the PA Route 108/PA Route 168 concurrency in New Castle, connects downtown Pittsburgh to the northwestern portion of the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area. PA 65 is similar in its purpose to PA Route 18 and PA Route 51, both of which run parallel to PA 65 at one point or another; however, the three routes pass through different cities for most of their respective alignments.

April

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Pennsylvania Route 641 (PA 641) is a state route located in Central Pennsylvania. The route is 57 miles long from U.S. Route 522 in Shade Gap to U.S. Route 11 and U.S. Route 15 in Camp Hill. PA 641 carries names like Trindle Road, Forge Hill Road, Newburg Road, Main Street, Newville Road, Green Spring Road, Carlisle Road, High Street, and Timmons Road.

May

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Pennsylvania Route 145 (PA 145) is a 20 mile (32 km) long state highway, in the US state of Pennsylvania. The designation of the highway begins at exit 60 of Interstate 78 and Pennsylvania Route 309 in the hamlet of Lanark, north to Pennsylvania Route 248 in the community of Weiders Crossing.

Commissioned in 1928, PA 145 is the main north-south route into Allentown, Pennsylvania, the third-largest city in Pennsylvania. In Whitehall Township, a seven mile portion of PA 145 is known as MacArthur Road. MacArthur Road is almost entirely divided; between US 22 and Eberhart Road, it is up to six lanes wide with slip ramps. In Whitehall Township, MacArthur Road is the location of the main commercial center of the Lehigh Valley. The Lehigh Valley Mall, a large Allentown-area shopping mall, is located on PA 145, in Whitehall Township.

June

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State Route 1002 (SR 1002), locally known as Tilghman Street and Union Boulevard, is a major long east-west road in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metropolitan area of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The majority of the roadway is the former alignment of U.S. Route 22, maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as a Quadrant Route, and is not signed except on small white segment markers.

Tilghman Street begins at Pennsylvania Route 100 in Fogelsville, though SR 1002 continues west on Main Street (also old US 22) to the intersection of Church Street (SR 3014). It becomes Union Boulevard just east of the bridge over the Lehigh River in Allentown; SR 1002 ends at the interchange with Pennsylvania Route 378 in Bethlehem. Union Boulevard continues over Monocacy Creek, which forms the border between Lehigh and Northampton Counties, and ends in downtown Bethlehem.

Today, the highway attracts more than the average traffic for roads in the Lehigh Valley. An average of 21,018 vehicles use it in South Whitehall Township and 21,706 in Allentown each day.

July

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Pennsylvania Route 39 (PA 39) is a -long, east-west, state highway in Dauphin County of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is designated from North Front Street in Susquehanna Township, to US 322 and US 422 in the Hummelstown/Hershey area.

PA 39 is one of the few state routes to end on a non-numbered road. This exists because North Front Street is the decommissioned route for US 22/US 322 (as well as PA 14, US 11 and US 15).

From the western terminus to Interstate 81, PA 39 is known as Linglestown Road. Linglestown Road is mostly a two lane road running east–west through the northern portions of Dauphin County.

From Interstate 81 to Hersheypark Drive, PA 39 is known as Hershey Road turning south, but keeping the east-west signage. When becoming Hersheypark Drive, PA 39 is routed opposite to its alignment before reaching the eastern terminus.

August

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Pennsylvania Route 222 is a -long state highway contained entirely in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and its immediate suburbs mostly along Hamilton Boulevard. The route, in center city Allentown, is aligned along West Hamilton, West Linden, and West Walnut Streets. The route is referenced as SR 2006, under the Local Referencing System.

The southern terminus of the route is at Interstate 78 and Pennsylvania Route 309 in Dorneyville, where the right-of-way of PA 222 changes designation to U.S. Route 222. The northern terminus is Pennsylvania Route 145 in Allentown.

September/October

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Pennsylvania Route 31 is a 74 mile long state highway located in Western Pennsylvania, paralleling U.S. Route 30 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike for most of its length. The designation begins at PA 136 near West Newton and ends at US 30 near Bedford.

November

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Pennsylvania Route 191 is a -long state highway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The route, a major non-freeway corridor connecting the Lehigh Valley to The Poconos in eastern Pennsylvania, is designated from U.S. Route 22 in Brodhead to the New York state line over the Delaware River at Hancock, New York.

Commissioned in 1961, the route replaced the PA 12 and PA 90 numbers that were in place from the late 1920s to the 1960s. From 1961 to 1976, PA 191 was routed south of US 22 through Bethlehem and terminated at Pennsylvania Route 309 in Center Valley. Pennsylvania Route 378 replaced the designation from Center Valley to the Lehigh River crossing in Bethlehem.

December

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Pennsylvania Route 73 (PA 73) is a long east-west state highway in southeastern Pennsylvania. It runs from Pennsylvania Route 61 in Leesport to the New Jersey state line on the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge in Philadelphia, where it continues as New Jersey Route 73.

Predating the Interstate and U.S. Highway Systems, the Skippack Pike, a modern section of the route, served as the primary connector between Philadelphia and the northwest suburbs.

Note: Was left as selected article until June 2010.