and US 30

Above: typical Philadelphia route marker. There are two videos with this page: West over the Ben Franklin Bridge and East through Philadelphia. (Note on the second video: I am not so stupid as to reduce "4/10", a strange instance of fractional mileage that could actually be reduced to a lower fraction, to the "2/10" that I say. Please know I meant to say "2/5", which is still a strange distance.) Technically, the bridge itself is only US 30, and there are two discontiguous pieces of I-676 in PA and NJ. If the bridge were ever tied into the Vine Street Expressway with true high-speed ramps, it is likely those two pieces would be connected, but right now, I-676 technically follows the "ramps" to I-95 instead. All of I-676 is US 30 (unless it's the aforementioned ramps), but it's often not signed as such.


Coming off the Ben Franklin Bridge, which I just drove in the video linked above (and again below). Note in the first photo that there are little circles at the upper left, which hint to me that this was once an 8-laned bridge (the similar Walt Whitman and Commodore Barry Bridges also have 8 pairs of circles covered over).


Westbound photos of the depressed freeway (the eastbound video is linked above and below) that took decades to complete under and inside Vine Street. I-676's exits are unnumbered because they're so close together, but all the BGS's are relatively new, and this part of the highway is even newer than that (east of Broad Street wasn't completed for some time). Thus it's a mystery why there's no 611 shield on the exit sign.


Off the eastbound exit to the Ben Franklin Bridge. As I said, while this may be signed I-676 for continuity, the Interstate stayed up on the Vine Street Expressway, and technically this is just US 30. I can't call the font wrong on the newer right sign, but I can say it's odd to see so much green space just for the sake of the signs looking equal.


Onto the bridge I just left a few photos ago, headed into New Jersey past off-spec signs with bubble shields and then great old button copy.

Onto US 30 alone

Into NJ on US 30
Into NJ on I-676
Onto I-95
Onto PA 611
Into Philadelphia
Vine St. Expressway (I-676/US 30) on Steve Anderson's phillyroads.com
I-676 on Jeff Kitsko's pahighways.com
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Did you forget to watch the bridge video? Or the Expressway video?