Superhighway 1 in Bucks County PA?

[roadman65]

It was never signed on it though.  On I-95, even long after US 1 was finally moved on to it, the signs read "Langhorne' for southbound, and "Oxford Valley' for northbound.  Even for a couple of years, NB US 1 was still being directed off of the freeway north of Neshaminy onto US 1 Business before PennDOT realized they forgot to change the signs.

Anyway no maps or signs showed that a PA 281 existed there, as far as I remember.  Not saying you are wrong about it being so, just it was all hidden.

[SignBridge]

I remember those old signs you spoke of on I-95 before Penn DOT finally signed those exits for Route-1. That was circa late 1980's? I wondered at the time why the signing did not keep up with the construction progress.

If I remember right, the ADC Bucks County street map back in the 1980's did show the Superhighway as Route-281. I remember it well 'cause I started traveling thru that area in 1987 and still go there now about once a year.

[Mr. Matté]

Interesting that they called it "281" since that was the normally-unknown legislative number and the signed route of the same number existed in western PA since the 1920s.

[Alps]

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.

Couldn't have been 281. That route's been in place forever. http://www.pahighways.com/state/PA251-300.html#PA281 But not seeing in the US 1 history what it might have been.
IF the map said 281, I'm inclined to believe that as a mapmaker's guess.

[SignBridge]

It could have been an error on the old map. Wish I would have kept it........

[roadman65]

I remember when in the early 1980's when the current US 220 freeway near Reading was signed as "Road to Nowhere" on most maps of the Reading Area.  No number, and not even a great name like US 1 at least had before it was completed.

[Chris19001]

I remember when in the early 1980's when the current US 220 freeway near Reading was signed as "Road to Nowhere" on most maps of the Reading Area.  No number, and not even a great name like US 1 at least had before it was completed.

I'm sure the local state legislator or residents could not have been too thrilled about the name. 

[roadman65]

I remember when in the early 1980's when the current US 220 freeway near Reading was signed as "Road to Nowhere" on most maps of the Reading Area.  No number, and not even a great name like US 1 at least had before it was completed.

I'm sure the local state legislator or residents could not have been too thrilled about the name. 

That is probably why they pushed to get it done.