Last photo is down the Exit 67 ramp.


Aww, schnookums cutie-wutie milepost shieldy-wieldy! *barf*


The montage is a series of signs leading up to Exit 67, where there's apparently some construction going on. That leads to the "cattle chute" in the last photo, where one lane of westbound traffic runs on eastbound side, away from the rest. All courtesy Lou Corsaro.


The first and fourth signs in this run are courtesy Lou Corsaro.


Emaus Avenue, but Emmaus, PA? Emaus was the name of Maguntsche/Macungie (which is now a different town) between 1830 and 1938. It was Emmaus on either side of that time period, but the road was built while it was Emaus and that name never changed when the town reverted (thanks to Charles Meitzler for all this information). In Pennsylvania, like many northern states but especially so, following a road with a town name will take you to that town. This sign is WB approaching PA 309/PA 145 at Exit 60 (145 is S. 4th St., but you don't find that out yet).


Last photo is down the Exit 57 ramp.


The first Allentown sign lied! And how about that Emmaus/Allentown sign?! This is a case where "Allentown - Next N Exits" works better than "Allentown Exits"... "Allentown Exits"...


One more exit ramp photo. PA 29 used to continue north into Allentown from here.


Thanks to Lou Corsaro for providing a patch over the rear-view mirror in that one photo, and for the two exit gore signs. The black-on-white Turnpike shields can only ever be found on BGS's, and even then I don't recall looking quite like this elsewhere.


Three things wrong with this WB picture:
        • Only NJ uses a black square background for its shields, and now even NJDOT is starting to shy away from that practice.
        • That should be Smithville, not SmithVille.
        • There should be a bit more sign there.
On the plus side, it shows off PA's "OLD EXIT" signage very well. In 2001, PA renumbered all its freeways from sequential exits to mileage-based (there are more pictures of this in the I-76, I-81, and I-83 folders). Ohio's method is to use dual signage, "Exit XX/Mile YYY" (also tested along I-295 in Rhode Island), and NJ used yellow signs when I-287 was renumbered to account for I-95 not being built between its southeastern end and Trenton.


A look at the original US 22 freeway, now shared by I-78 and US 22, courtesy Lou Corsaro.


The third photo, of the off-kilter height sign, is courtesy Lou Corsaro.


Past a decidedly non-Interstate standard exit sign (it's Exit 8 for US 22 West to PA 343), to a contrast of old and new; second and fourth photos courtesy Lou Corsaro. When the old exit tab was tacked on (likely to a previously unnumbered exit, since it's the end of the highwy), PennDOT inserted a hyphen in Exit 1B. The new sign is incorrect in not capitalizing all of NORTH.

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