PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A stretch of highway near Philadelphia that’s notorious for its bottlenecks might get some much-needed relief.
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says it’s looking at opening shoulder lanes to traffic on some heavily traveled sections of Interstate 76 between the city and its northwest suburbs.
The agency will start preliminary engineering this fall to transform the outside shoulders of I-76 into part-time travel lanes between the Pennsylvania Turnpike Interchange at Valley Forge and Interstate 476. They’ll do the same for I-76 west between U.S. 1/Roosevelt Boulevard and Belmont Avenue interchanges. Construction wouldn’t start for about five years.
The shoulder lane plan is part of a larger traffic management plan PennDOT announced Tuesday. Other initiatives include using technology to help manage traffic flow on the 12-mile stretch and partnering with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority to expand public transit service along the Manayunk/Norristown regional rail line.
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