PA 90 was the number originally applied to what is now PA 191. The number changed in 1961, about the time that the Delaware River Port Authority, a joint commission between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, began studying in earnest a new crossing near the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge on PA/NJ 73. Not surprisingly, the NJ approach to the bridge, from the time it opened in 1976, is NJ 90, and thus it would seem Pennsylvania was ready to number its own freeway approach as PA 90. That day never came, however, and while it was being studied, no actual number (aside from a temporary four-digit one) was assigned to the route. Thus the highway from I-95 to the Betsy Ross Bridge, and likely the Aramingo Ave. connector on the other side, carries a hidden four-digit state route designation, instead of the 90 that was cleared for it. The bridge is signed "TO NJ 90" from I-95.


We'll start small, to whet your appetite. Just after the I-95 NB ramp splits to the Betsy Ross Bridge and the Aramingo Ave. connector, there is this stub bridge inside the ramp. It's the remnant of Thompson St., which dead-ends to the north of the intersection but once crossed over the Tacony Creek, under the railroad in the background, and continued southward. Obviously, the construction of I-95 killed the street, but I'm surprised it didn't kill this sizable piece of it.


The eastern stub, the freeway coming off of the bridge. For some reason, when the interchange was completed to allow access to Aramingo Ave., making use of the property already acquired for the proposed freeway, the bridge was never connected to it.


The green fence in the midground (halfway between fore and back) is the end of the western freeway stub.


Westbound on the Aramingo Ave. connector, where the stub in the background (complete with police car) is meant to continue northward to Torresdale Ave. at some point. It's not a stub from the freeway, because the connector has already curved off of that alignment (which was closer to the Tacony Creek).


Now heading up the connector from Aramingo Ave. The NEXT LEFT is sorta correct, because traffic has to turn left to get to I-95, but there's nothing to the right yet.

Into New Jersey on NJ 90
Onto I-95
Unbuilt PA 90 on Steve Anderon's phillyroads.com
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