Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project

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The Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project is a project to build an interchange where Interstate 95 crosses the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania. This will fill the gap that exists on I-95 through New Jersey due to the cancellation of the Somerset Freeway. The project also includes widening the Turnpike east of U.S. Route 1 and rebuilding the Delaware River-Turnpike Toll Bridge into New Jersey.

Construction is expected to start in late 2006 or early 2007 and will cost approximately 650 million dollars.

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[edit] Background

The Somerset Freeway was planned to run from existing I-95 north of Trenton northeast to Interstate 287 west of Perth Amboy, and was to carry I-95 towards the New Jersey Turnpike. Due to local opposition, it was cancelled in 1982, and I-95 was later rerouted south on the Turnpike and its Pennsylvania Extension to end at the state line. The section of I-95 north of the interchange (extended several miles in 1995) will become an extension of Interstate 195 when the interchange is completed,<ref>Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission I-95/I-276 Interchange Project Meeting Design Management Summary - DRAFT: Design Advisory Committee Meeting #2</ref> and the part of Interstate 276 east of the interchange will become part of Interstate 95.