I-95 Section GIR (I-95/GIR)
I-95 between the Vine Street and Allegheny Avenue interchanges, including the Girard Avenue Interchange

Status
Section GR0 construction finished in mid-2010. Construction of the next stage, Section GR1, began in late-2011. Four additional sections of I-95/GIR are currently at various points of the Final Design stage of project development. They are being prepared for construction as six separate phases: GR2, GR3, GR4, GR5 (Click on Engineering above for information about Sections GR2-5).

Current I-95/GR1 phase includes:

• Reconstruction and widening of Richmond Street on its existing alignment between Aramingo Avenue and Cumberland Street;
• Reconstruction and widening of Richmond Street on a new alignment shifted east between Cumberland and Ann streets;
• Replacement of two (2) Conrail bridges over Richmond Street near Lehigh Avenue with four (4) separate structures with new Conrail tracks;
• Reconstruction, a half-at-a-time, of the Girard Avenue bridge over the northbound Aramingo Avenue spur;
• Extensive utility relocations along Richmond Street and adjacent streets to the west;
• Intersection improvements along Richmond Street at Girard Avenue, Cumberland Street, Sereant Street, Huntingdon Street, Lehigh Avenue, Somerset Street, Cambria Street and Ann Street;
• Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) devices -- dynamic message signs, mtraffic cameras, travel-time sensors, etc. along arterial rouites adjacent to I-95 between the Broad Street and Betsy Ross Bridge interchanges to assist PennDOT and the City during traffic management operations.

SEPTA’s Route 15 trolley is being re-routed during construction between Frankford Avenue and Westmoreland Station using various bus routes.

Construction of GR1 will take approximately four years.

Under GR0, PennDOT built

• A temporary ramp adjacent to the existing off-ramp from I-95 south at Girard Avenue. This ramp  connects traffic from the interstate with southbound Aramingo Avenue and allows traffic from the interstate to move directly to the waterfront along Delaware Avenue.
• New lanes to carry northbound Aramingo Avenue on a new alignment (see graphic). The new lanes of Aramingo Avenue move traffic between Delaware Avenue and York Street. It splits northbound traffic at the Delaware Avenue intersection, near the on-ramp to I-95 North, and merges with the existing ramp that runs from Girard Avenue east to Aramingo Avenue north near Norris Street. A short spur allows traffic to turn left at a temporary signal onto Aramingo Avenue south and continue on to Delaware Avenue or the existing ramp to I-95 South.
• A drainage system to control runoff.
• Various utility relocations in the GR0 project area.