PA Turnpike News

[Roadsguy]

The PTC finally replaced this sign, the eastbound exit sign for Lebanon-Lancaster (PA 72), after it was presumably hit by a vehicle and knocked down over a year ago. Notably, the new sign doesn't have the interchange name at the top, suggesting that they intend to phase out the names over time.

They also replaced the Lancaster control city with Manheim, which makes far more sense. So far, they've only replaced this one sign out of all of them at this interchange, but it would be weird if they left it with different control cities on different signs.

[Beltway]

I guess all new ramps they build on the turnpike won't have an official name anymore, especially since there will be no more toll plazas. They have never given the PA 29 interchange a name and it's been 15 years now, though I recall seeing a press release where they referred to it as the Malvern Interchange.

I always referred to it as the Devault interchange even in planning which goes back to the 1970s.

The area around PA 29 and the Turnpike ramp system straddles Devault's industrial corridor and isn't really in downtown Malvern. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission never formally assigned a name, so local shorthand has filled the gap: some say Devault, some Malvern, and others just Route 29 Interchange or Exit 320.

If PA-29 was rebuilt between there and Phoenixville as was planned in the 1970s, it could logically be called the Phoenixville interchange.