Pulaski Expressway
highway in Pennsylvania
The Pulaski Expressway (or alternatively the Tacony Expressway or Tacony Creek Parkway) was a proposed expressway to have been given the designation Pennsylvania Route 90. It was proposed by the Regional Planning Federation (the predecessor agency to the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission) around 1932 to have been a parkway built similar to Moses parkways in New York City. The highway was to have been routed through Northeast Philadelphia and was to have been divided into three sections.
Route description
The Pulaski Expressway was to begin at an interchange with I-95 and the Betsy Ross Bridge in Northeast Philadelphia, where the road continues into New Jersey as Route 90. The freeway was to continue north through residential and industrial areas before passing through Tacony Creek Park. The Pulaski Expressway would continue north to its terminus at an interchange with US 1 (Roosevelt Boulevard).
History
In 1932, the Regional Planning Federation (the predecessor agency to the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission) proposed the Tacony Creek Parkway to run along the Tacony Creek; however, this was never built. In 1947, the Philadelphia City Planning Commission proposed the Tacony Expressway through Northeast Philadelphia, which was to run from the Delaware Expressway northwest to PA 309 (former US 309, Fort Washington Expressway) at the border of Philadelphia and Montgomery County, interchanging with US 1 (Roosevelt Boulevard). Construction of the Delair Bridge (Betsy Ross Bridge) across the Delaware River was approved in 1964, with the Tacony Expressway planned to connect to the new bridge. In 1966, the routing of the Tacony Expressway was modified to follow Adams Avenue instead of passing through Tacony Creek Park.
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