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PennDOT Opens Temporary I-95 Off-Ramp at Girard Avenue
New ramp part of $8.8 million project to improve access from I-95 South to Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia waterfront

June 29, 2010 --The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation today announced that it has opened a new temporary off-ramp from Interstate 95 South at the Girard Avenue Interchange that will improve access between the interstate and the waterfront area along Delaware Avenue north of Center City Philadelphia. More...

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PennDOT Completes Numerous Improvements to Surface Roads, SEPTA To Reduce Congestion Along I-95 Corridor in Philadelphia, Bucks County

January 2009 - PennDOT has completed a number of Congestion Management Strategies (CMS) projects on surface roads and at SEPTA facilities along the I-95 corridor. These projects promote the use of mass transit or improve traffic flow on alternate and circulatory routes in the I-95 project areas before, during and after the construction on the interstate.

Completed CMS projects include the following:

Upgrades to traffic signal equipment on

• Torresdale Avenue from Harbison Avenue to to Linden Street.
• Holme Avenue from US 1 to Willits Road.
• Willits Road from Holme Avenue to Crispen Street.
• Route13/Frankford Avenue from Bridge Street to Bucks County Line.
• Route 13/Bristol Pike from Bristol Borough to Philadelphia City Line.
• Knights Road from Street Road to Philadelphia City Line.

Improvements to intersections on New State Road/Tacony Road from Bridge Street to Old State Road (11 intersections).

Improve and interconnect traffic signals on

• Knights Road from Frankford Avenue to Bucks County Line (12 intersections).
• State Road from Milner Street to Grant Avenue (18 intersections).
• Princeton Avenue from Van Dyke Street to State Road and on Beigh Avenue at the I-95 off ramp.

Signal, intersection and corridor improvements on Academy Road from Linden Avenue to Woodhaven Road (11 intersections).

SEPTA improvements

• New rail cars, signal improvements, track upgrades, and shuttle service at Bensalem Park ‘n Ride.
• Construct Park ‘n Ride Lots at Bensalem, Trevose, Yardley, Woodbourne and Philmont stations.