page_title: Interstate 76 (Ohio–New Jersey)
section_title: Pennsylvania Turnpike
hierarchical_section_title: Interstate 76 (Ohio–New Jersey) / Route description / Pennsylvania / Pennsylvania Turnpike
caption_attribution_description: West portal of the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel on Interstate 76, the Pennsylvania Turnpike
context_page_description: Interstate 76 is an Interstate Highway in the Eastern United States, running about 434 miles from an interchange with I-71 west of Akron, Ohio, east to I-295 in Bellmawr, New Jersey.
  Just west of Youngstown, I-76 joins the Ohio Turnpike and heads around the south side of Youngstown. In Pennsylvania, I-76 runs across most of the state on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, passing near Pittsburgh and Harrisburg before leaving the Turnpike to enter Philadelphia on the Schuylkill Expressway, crossing the Walt Whitman Bridge into New Jersey. After I-76 reaches its eastern terminus, the freeway continues as Route 42 and the Atlantic City Expressway to Atlantic City.
context_section_description: From the Ohio border, the Pennsylvania Turnpike carries I-76 into and across most of Pennsylvania, bypassing Youngstown to the south and Pittsburgh to the north. From the Ohio border until Warrendale, the turnpike uses a non-ticketing toll system while east of Warrendale, the ticketing system begins. There is a free interchange with US 19 and I-79 near Wexford. At one point, I-76 used to begin in Pittsburgh on a route that is now signed as I-376, around the 1970s.
  From New Stanton to Breezewood, I-76 is concurrent with I-70. In this section are the bypass (built in the 1960s) of the Laurel Hill Tunnel, then the still-in-use Allegheny Mountain Tunnel in a relatively unpopulated section of South Central Pennsylvania, and then an indirect connection with I-99 in Bedford. The highway also passes through a wind farm in Somerset County and is the closest Interstate highway to the 9/11 Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.
  At Breezewood, I-70 exits the turnpike (making use of a short stretch of the old alignment of the Pennsylvania Turnpike), while I-76 bypasses the Rays Hill and Sideling Hill tunnels along a new alignment built in the 1960s. I-76 also bypasses Harrisburg and Reading both to the south. The major features of this section are more mountains with the Tuscarora Mountain Tunnel and then a double tunnel (Kittatinny/Blue Mountain) prior to PA 997 near Shippensburg. I-76 intersects I-81 (indirectly) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, then I-83 and I-283 near Harrisburg. The Susquehanna River Bridge is a new six lane bridge that was constructed in 2003 using precast segments that replaced an older bridge across the Susquehanna River. At Valley Forge, I-76 diverges towards Philadelphia, but the turnpike (as I-276) bypasses it to the north.
caption: I-76 at the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel
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