U.S. Highway 22

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United States Highway 22, an east-west route, is one of the original United States highways of 1926. It originally ran from Cambridge, Ohio in the west to Elizabeth, New Jersey in the east; today, it runs from Cincinnati, Ohio to Newark, New Jersey near the Newark Liberty International Airport.

Highway 22 is also referred to as William Penn Highway throughout most of Pennsylvania. In Southwestern Ohio, it runs with State Route 3 and is familiarly known as the 3C Highway, "22 and 3", and Montgomery Road.

Route 22 runs through central New Jersey, where it has a high speed limit (55 mi/h, 89 km/h for most of its run), much traffic, many traffic lights, and stores lining its entire length. Indeed there are even stores located in the median between the two directions of the road. Therefore, it is necessary to accelerate to the speed traffic is travelling (usually over 65 mi/h, 105 km/h), within the space of a few white-knuckle seconds. Similarly, driving along Route 22 is a game of avoiding the drivers pulling out onto the highway. It is known as one of the hardest and most dangerous roadways to drive on throughout New Jersey.

In Pennsylvania, the highway is a four-lane limited access highway between Easton, Pennsylvania and Interstate 78 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Originally, the highway was supposed to be Interstate 78, and the present-day configuration Interstate 278, but local opposition in New Jersey killed the construction of the missing segment, thus forcing officials to relocate Interstate 78 south of Allentown, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Easton.

West of Allentown to just outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Highway 22 is part of Interstate 78, breaking off just before the junction of Interstate 78 with Interstate 81. Old sections of Highway 22 that parallel the I-78/U.S. 22 multiplex is known by locals as the "Hex Highway," as Berks County-based Pennsylvania Dutch families hang so-called "hex signs" on their barns along this stretch between Allentown and Strausstown, Pennsylvania.

Contents 1 Termini 2 States traversed 3 Related US routes 4 See also 5 Sources

Termini

As of 2004, the highway's eastern terminus is in Newark, New Jersey at an intersection with US 1 and US 9. Its western terminus is in Cincinnati, Ohio at an intersection with US 27, US 42, US 127, and US 52.

States traversed

The highway passes through the following states:

• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• West Virginia known as Robert C. Byrd Expressway (less than 5 miles, 8 km, at Weirton)
• Ohio

Related US routes

• U.S. Highway 122
• U.S. Highway 222
• U.S. Highway 322
• U.S. Highway 422
• U.S. Highway 522
• U.S. Highway 622

See also

• List of U.S. Highways

Sources

• Endpoints of US highways

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