NB photos from the US 202/322 Downingtown Bypass (every short freeway in PA is a Bypass), starting from the surface alignment where the routes exit themselves. The blank space on the Paoli Pike signage is there because US 202 used the Pike while this freeway was only US 322.


SB along the same multiplex. The last sign is for US 322 Business EB.


This is a stretch of original concrete along an original Pennsylvania freeway, US 202 east of US 30 and west of US 422/I-76/I-276.


The signs are brand-new in the 422/76/276 area, as are just about all of the roadways, but while the interchange is much, much more beautiful and functional than it was, these signs are ugly and dysfunctional.


Another example, SB at Gulph Rd. (PA 363), courtesy Scott Colbert. It looks like half the shields worked and half didn't, including one I-76 shield but not the other.


Germantown Pike EB in Norristown, courtesy Scott Colbert. I rather prefer the old US shields to the new, incorrect PA shields. It also helps that there are two old PennDOT logos on the shields and arrows from back when they were the PA Dept. of Highways.

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The next set of photos are on the freeway bypass of Doylestown that opened in 1976. The signage is original on both 202 and the short wrong-way multiplex with PA 611. The US 202 freeway would have continued around the northern suburbs of Philadelphia, connecting to the current US 202 freeway at US 422, I-76, and I-276. It also would have continued eastward to connect with NJ's freeway portion at the toll bridge. But like a lot of Pennsylvania SR and US bypasses, this freeway stops short, instead routing US 202 onto the PA 611 bypass of Doylestown, up another 3/4 mile to its old alignment.


Looking at the NB lanes' stub at the western end of the freeway.


Two perspectives of the SB lanes and the whole stub.


The SB signage. Clearly, the 202 tab wasn't tacked on (nor advance sign placed) until it became clear the stub end of the freeway would remain for the foreseeable future, as it both is lighter green and has a shield.


The only NB button copy on the freeway.


Staring down the SB lanes of the eastern stub.


The NB offramp that now carries US 202.


Looking westward, i.e. at the SB merge with what is now US 202 SB.


One last Bypass photo from the eastern stub, as I leave the roadway NB.

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Major connecting roads to the Turnpike have trailblazers that begin as far as 10 miles away. This is the 5-mile trailblazer on US 202 SB. Note that there is neither an I-76 or I-276 trailblazer to go with it, despite the fact that these two highways are on the Turnpike at the junction point (which is where I-76 meets 276, 202, and the eastern US 422). (There are two US 422's separated by a considerable gap in the middle of PA, and they are never intended to connect. This is the only case of two same-numbered US spurs.)


The 5-mile trailblazer is nothing. Erase it. This is ORIGINAL, folks, one of the first shields for the Turnpike to ever appear, and it's still standing, half-hidden by a tree, along US 202 SB.


The first photo is PA 179 SB/WB, the old US 202, where it ends at the current US 202 turnoff (that connects with the freeway alignment that would have connected to the Doylestown Bypass to the west). The second photo is US 202 NB where it goes from that turnoff alignment into the freeway alignment. There is no stub to speak of at the toll bridge.

PA 611 and 202/611 multiplex
PA 309 and 202/309 multiplex

North on US 202 into New Jersey
South on US 202 into Delaware
Onto US 322
Onto PA 3
Onto I-76
Onto I-276
Onto US 422
To PA 32
Continue south on US 202 at Steve Anderson's phillyroads.com
US 202 on Jeff Kitsko's pahighways.com
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