page_title: Bethlehem Pike
section_title: Today
hierarchical_section_title: Bethlehem Pike / Today
caption_attribution_description: Northbound Pennsylvania Route 309 (Bethlehem Pike) past the Five Points intersection with Pennsylvania Route 463/Doylestown Road in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania.
context_page_description: Bethlehem Pike is a historic 42.21 mi long road in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, connecting Philadelphia and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It began as a Native American path called the Minsi Trail which developed into a colonial highway called the King's Road in the 1760s. Most of the route later became part of U.S. Route 309, now Pennsylvania Route 309.
context_section_description: The modern Bethlehem Pike is mostly designated as Pennsylvania Route 309 in the Lehigh and Delaware Valleys. In Philadelphia, the road is signed as SR 4017, with a daily traffic of 15,000 vehicles. The pike is routed as SR 2018 in Montgomery County, while parallel to PA 309. North of Fort Washington, the road is known as PA 309, with an average of 17,000 to 21,000 vehicles a day. In Sellersville, the pike is signed as SR 4013, south of PA 152, and SR 4085 north of PA 152. From Quakertown to Center Valley, the pike has an old alignment west of the current designation on PA 309. In the Quakertown area, the PA 309 segment of the pike averages a daily traffic of 18,000 vehicles. North of Center Valley, the road is aligned as PA 378, Old Bethlehem Pike, and Old Philadelphia Pike, with an average traffic of 17,000 vehicles a day on PA 378. The northern most segment of the pike is known as Main Street in Bethlehem.
  Lower Gwynedd formed a project to improve the Bethlehem Pike within the township and estimated to cost $500,000.
caption: PA 309 (Bethlehem Pike) north of US 202 Bus./PA 463 in Montgomery Township.
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