page_title: Pennsylvania Route 299
section_title: Route description
hierarchical_section_title: Pennsylvania Route 299 / Route description
caption_attribution_description: English: The former alignment of Pennsylvania Route 299 approaching the current bridge alignment of PA&#160;299 in Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania.
context_page_description: Pennsylvania Route 299 is a 0.05-mile-long state highway located in Erie County in Pennsylvania. The route is the designation for the Staff Sergeant Jeremy R. Horton Memorial Bridge that carries Powell Avenue over two railroad lines in Millcreek Township. PA 299 was designated in 1930 between US 20 and PA 99, which is now PA 5 Alternate, running along Powell Avenue. In 2006, the current bridge over the railroad tracks was built. In 2011, all of PA 299 was decommissioned except for the Staff Sergeant Jeremy R. Horton Memorial Bridge, and is no longer signed as a traffic route. The section of Powell Avenue north of the bridge was realigned in 2012 as a result of runway expansion at Erie International Airport.
context_section_description: PA 299 begins at the south end of the Staff Sergeant Jeremy R. Horton Memorial Bridge in Millcreek Township, where the road continues south as township-maintained Powell Avenue to an intersection with US 20. The bridge runs past industrial areas before carrying the route over Norfolk Southern's Lake Erie District railroad line followed by CSX's Erie West Subdivision railroad line. At the north end of the bridge, the PA 299 designation ends and Powell Avenue continues north as a township-maintained road to Erie International Airport, where the road bypasses the runway to the east as 20th Street and Marshall Drive. Past the runway, Powell Avenue resumes at Oxer Road and intersects PA 5 (West 12th Street) and PA 5 Alt. (West Lake Road) before continuing several more blocks to the Lake Erie shoreline.
caption: Approaching PA 299's current alignment, the Horton Bridge, as seen from 20th Street along the former northern extension of PA 299
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