Superhighway 1 in Bucks County PA?

[bzakharin]

Heard today on a KYW traffic report about some incident on "route 1, uh, superhighway 1" in Bucks County. I've never heard of this term before. Googling does return a few hits, mostly for Langhorne, and mostly referring to either the Our Lady of Grace Cemetery, or real estate listings. Is this a local term in wide use? What portion of US 1 does it refer to? Are there other "superhighways" in the US?

[SteveG1988]

NJ has Superduperhighway 700

[roadman65]

I believe that was the term used for the US 1 freeway in Bucks County before it was completed to Morrisville.  It used to end at Oxford Valley and for years was unnumbered from the present day US 1 Business exit near Neshaminy to Oxford Valley.  US 1 left the freeway right there and went through Pendell, Oxford Valley and what is now US 1 Business until circa 1987 when the final link was completed.

It might of been how they referenced the freeway then being no one really knows the PennDOT reference numbers of the unnumbered roads.

[Mapmikey]

Older highway maps (well before the interstate system) sometimes used to refer to 4-lane highways as superhighways in their legends...

Mike

[roadman65]

My old Exxon maps did, in fact, call that stretch of freeway "Super Highway."

[jeffandnicole]

It's an old term, much like the North-South Freeway and the High Speedline (referring to PATCO).  Every once in a while a long-time traffic reporter will use the term Superhighway 1.

[ekt8750]

NJ has Superduperhighway 700

Isn't the Superduper portion 95 though or is it an unsigned concurrency?

[kurumi]

Debunked

[Chris19001]

My old Exxon maps did, in fact, call that stretch of freeway "Super Highway."

I will second this.  I have a few older maps of lower Bucks county that reference the highway north of where Business Route 1 branches off today as "SuperHighway 1".  Just proves PA's historical reluctance at using the term "freeway".

[Mr. Matté]

The Superduperlooperpooperscooper does exist about 100 miles to the west in Derry Township, Dauphin County.

[bzakharin]

It's an old term, much like the North-South Freeway and the High Speedline (referring to PATCO).  Every once in a while a long-time traffic reporter will use the term Superhighway 1.

PATCO High Speedline isn't the official name? Just checked. PATCO's site's page title says "PATCO Speedline" (no "High"). The site itself just calls it PATCO everywhere. Interesting. News Articles use it, though: "Transportation officials say public transit, like the PATCO High Speed line, is the best way to get into Philadelphia to see the pope"

[roadman]

Harvard Square, Cambridge (MA) has the "Super-Crosswalk" (a pedestrian crosswalk that is about four times wider than your average marked crosswalk).  Brochure from the project's construction:

http://web.mit.edu/jhawk/tmp/p/SupercrosswalkBrochureFall07.pdf

[SteveG1988]

NJ has Superduperhighway 700

Isn't the Superduper portion 95 though or is it an unsigned concurrency?

The 95 section is the Hypersuperduperlanetacular Section

[SteveG1988]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePusmtf1IQ

[roadman65]

The Superduperlooperpooperscooper does exist about 100 miles to the west in Derry Township, Dauphin County.

That name is too underused as there is only one loop on it that is not that big, especially now that some coasters have a total of seven loops.  Look at Cedar Points 17 miles of combined track, each coaster there puts that one to shame tenfold.

BTW, not knocking the ride itself as I love to ride it even though I have not been to Hersheypark in 20 years.

[jwolfer]

Near Birmingham Alabama there is the Bessemer Superhighway

[SteveG1988]

The Superduperlooperpooperscooper does exist about 100 miles to the west in Derry Township, Dauphin County.

That name is too underused as there is only one loop on it that is not that big, especially now that some coasters have a total of seven loops.  Look at Cedar Points 17 miles of combined track, each coaster there puts that one to shame tenfold.

BTW, not knocking the ride itself as I love to ride it even though I have not been to Hersheypark in 20 years.

The ride has been altered with new trains and better brakes. They're now bright orange, with wings on em for brakes.

[noelbotevera]

The Superduperlooperpooperscooper does exist about 100 miles to the west in Derry Township, Dauphin County.

That name is too underused as there is only one loop on it that is not that big, especially now that some coasters have a total of seven loops.  Look at Cedar Points 17 miles of combined track, each coaster there puts that one to shame tenfold.

BTW, not knocking the ride itself as I love to ride it even though I have not been to Hersheypark in 20 years.

Rid it. It was the first coaster as the Hersheypark site claims to have a loop. There's three loops in the ride if I remember. Cedar Point has more, yes, but that's because their coasters were built around the 1980s and 1990s then renovated in the 2000s and this decade. That's why they had more loops. don't think about rougarou...

[jp the roadgeek]

The south end expressway portion of US 7 north from I-95 is often referred to as Super 7

[TravelingBethelite]

The south end expressway portion of US 7 north from I-95 is often referred to as Super 7

The U.S. 7 expressway south and north of I-84 in the Danbury area is also often called this. 

[Alps]

Harvard Square, Cambridge (MA) has the "Super-Crosswalk" (a pedestrian crosswalk that is about four times wider than your average marked crosswalk).  Brochure from the project's construction:

http://web.mit.edu/jhawk/tmp/p/SupercrosswalkBrochureFall07.pdf

Meh, MIT's had one for ages.

[Alps]

Near Birmingham Alabama there is the Bessemer Superhighway

Fun fact: just a regular surface street. But at the time it was designed, the concept of a 5-lane highway was extraordinary.

[ixnay]

It's an old term, much like the North-South Freeway and the High Speedline (referring to PATCO).  Every once in a while a long-time traffic reporter will use the term Superhighway 1.

I seem to recall RMcN maps of metro Philly in the '70s generically labeling the Langhorne/Penndel stretch of 1 as "Super Highway".

ixnay

[SteveG1988]

The Superduperlooperpooperscooper does exist about 100 miles to the west in Derry Township, Dauphin County.

That name is too underused as there is only one loop on it that is not that big, especially now that some coasters have a total of seven loops.  Look at Cedar Points 17 miles of combined track, each coaster there puts that one to shame tenfold.

BTW, not knocking the ride itself as I love to ride it even though I have not been to Hersheypark in 20 years.

Rid it. It was the first coaster as the Hersheypark site claims to have a loop. There's three loops in the ride if I remember. Cedar Point has more, yes, but that's because their coasters were built around the 1980s and 1990s then renovated in the 2000s and this decade. That's why they had more loops. don't think about rougarou...

Just one loop, first looping coaster on the east coast.

Old Train/Cars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krakK7sVDsA

Upgraded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzQ7NkEbH7k

They kept just the lapbar.

[SignBridge]

And now back to Bucks County. Back in the early 1980's the section of the "Route-1" "superhighway" before it was completed did have a route number, 281.

As of a couple of years ago, the Bucks County 911 fire dispatch center was still  announcing calls on that road as the "Route-1 Superhighway" and if my memory serves they announced it as Route-281 back in the 1980's. And calls on the "Business Route-1" are announced as East or West Lincoln Highway in the Langhorne/Oxford Valley area.