from Greensburg west

All photos on US 30 itself are eastbound.

Wooden sign at PA 168.


I'm not a big fan of the new style of Turnpike shields. For one, they're applied indiscriminately, meaning that I-476 becomes PA Turnpike 476. Two, they look like Business routes with their white-on-green color scheme, and are never cut out. Three, the directions are backwards. PA 576 "EAST" actually heads southwest, and "WEST" heads northeast to the airport. How could the Turnpike Commission get that so wrong? It's because PA 576 is the beginning of a longer beltway that will swing around and ultimately head mostly east-west, not north-south. When these directions eventually do make sense in the grand scheme of the beltway, this may be an Interstate even though it has a toll.


US 30 leaves the I-376 multiplex after having followed Interstates through Pittsburgh (see the two medium-size links at the bottom of the page), then passes underneath the graceful arch bridge that takes PA 8 SB traffic to I-376 EB. 8 ends here as 30 picks up.


That's supposed to be a white on green sign, unless it's meant to go with a low clearance sign for the Electric Ave. underpass of US 30. Electric Ave. leads to a nearly abandoned part of East Pittsburgh.


Since I'm not on US 30, have some westbound photos on Electric Ave. The abandoned signal is at North Ave. and the basically abandoned sign is just past it. Why haven't these relics been removed? Probably because the borough doesn't care.


Braddock Ave. SB runs in the shadow of elevated rail lines. The outlines of the arches suggest that there were several more tracks than these, elevated above the roadway (or possibly once above even more tracks). The death of the railroads and the death of the industry in this area probably coincided. In the third photo, as Braddock Ave. rises high up to meet East Pittsburgh-McKeesport Blvd. (possibly an old alignment of the Lincoln Highway/US 30), it's still not nearly as high as the Westinghouse Bridge that carries US 30 over it all.


Back on US 30 again, over that blue bridge you saw from Braddock Ave., the George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge built in 1932. Isn't it amazing how Westinghouse resembles a concrete Jesus?


Another old bridge, the end of Greensburg Pike EB.


Past the original beginning of the Turnpike to Possum Hollow Rd. The uniquely signed U-turn that crosses US 30 WB comes after a long stretch of divided highway with no median breaks or exits.


Remember I said I hated these? That's probably why there are even more at PA 66.


Calm down with some Greensburg button copy.

Continue east of Greensburg on US 30
Onto I-279 and the I-279/US 30/US 22 triplex
Onto I-376 and the I-376/US 30/US 22 triplex
Back to US 30 main page

Onto the Penna Turnpike, I-76
Into West Virginia on US 30
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