Pennsylvania Route 611

PA Route 611
Route information
Maintained by PennDOT, City of Philadelphia, and City of Easton
Length:	109.685 mi (176.521 km)
Existed:	March 14, 1972 – present
Major junctions
South end:	I-95 in Philadelphia
	I-76 in Philadelphia I-676 / US 30 in Philadelphia US 13 in Philadelphia US 1 in Philadelphia PA 309 in Philadelphia I-276 / Penna Turnpike in Willow Grove US 202 in Doylestown US 22 in Easton I-80 / US 209 in Stroudsburg PA 33 in Stroud Township
North end:	I-380 in Coolbaugh Township
Location
Counties:	Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Northampton, Monroe
Highway system
Pennsylvania State Route System Interstate US State Scenic Byways Legislative ← PA 607 PA 612 → ← PA 301 PA 303 → ← PA 826 PA 828 →

U.S. Route 611
Location:	Philadelphia-Scranton
Existed:	1926–1972

PA Route 611 Truck
Location:	Bedminster Township, Pennsylvania
Length:	0.4 mi (0.6 km)

PA Route 611 Truck
Location:	Bartonsville-Tannersville
Length:	5.0 mi (8.0 km)
Existed:	2013–2015

U.S. Route 611 Alternate
Location:	Philadelphia-Willow Grove

U.S. Route 611 Alternate
Location:	Portland-Delaware Water Gap

Pennsylvania Route 611 (PA 611), formerly U.S. Route 611 (US 611), is a major state highway in Pennsylvania, United States, running from Interstate 95 south of downtown Philadelphia north to Interstate 380 in Coolbaugh Township, Pennsylvania in The Poconos.

Within Philadelphia, PA 611 is also Broad Street (except for the five blocks just south of Cheltenham Avenue, where PA 611 bears right onto Old York Road), the main north–south street in Philadelphia and the traditional route for the annual Mummers Parade.

PA 611 begins at an interchange with I-95 in the South Philadelphia section of the city of Philadelphia, heading north on Broad Street. South of I-95, Broad Street continues into the Philadelphia Navy Yard. From the southern terminus, the route follows an eight-lane divided section of Broad Street that is also known as the Southern Boulevard Parkway, running between Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park to the west and the South Philadelphia Sports Complex to the east. At Pattison Avenue, SEPTA's Broad Street Line, a subway line, begins to run under the route. Past the sports complex, the road runs through urban neighborhoods and comes to an interchange with I-76 (Schuylkill Expressway), which heads east towards the Walt Whitman Bridge into New Jersey. Following this interchange, PA 611 narrows to a four-lane divided road and passes through Marconi Plaza before intersecting Oregon Avenue and Moyamensing Avenue. The route continues north on Broad Street, a four-lane road with alternating divided and undivided stretches, through urban residential and commercial areas in South Philadelphia, passing to the west of Methodist Hospital between Ritner and Wolf streets and passing to the east of Kindred Hospital South Philadelphia between Passyunk Avenue/McKean Street and Mifflin Street. Farther north, the road crosses Washington Avenue and South Street, at which point it heads into Center City Philadelphia. Here, the route widens to a six-lane divided highway and becomes the Avenue of the Arts, passing commercial development and high-rise buildings, including several theatres. The road passes to the east of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts at the Spruce Street intersection and the Academy of Music at the Locust Street intersection. The route crosses Walnut Street and Chestnut Street before it comes to Penn Square, a square-shaped traffic circle that runs around Philadelphia City Hall which is formed by South Penn Square to the south, Juniper Street to the east, John F. Kennedy Boulevard to the north, and 15th Street to the west. At Penn Square, PA 611 intersects Market Street along with the eastern terminus of PA 3, which is routed on the one-way pair of Market Street eastbound and John F. Kennedy Boulevard westbound.

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