202 Parkway
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The 202 Parkway is a proposed 9-mile at-grade road that connects Montgomeryville to Doylestown located outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 202 Parkway has been at the front of discussion and controversies around the Bucks and Montgomeryville areas for almost forty years.
In the early 1960's, a four-lane expressway was proposed that would follow the US 202 corridor. This expressway, called the "Piedmont Expressway" was to be 59 miles long, and cost approximately $146 million. This was to serve as an outer beltway around the Philadelphia area, similar to the Capital Beltway that surrounds Washington D.C.
The Expressway was divided into eight sections, from 100 to 800. The state highway department divided the US 202 Expressway into the following eight sections:
- SECTION 100: Concord Township, Delaware County to West Goshen Township, Chester County (approximately eight miles)
- SECTION 200: West Goshen Township, Chester County to West Whiteland Township, Chester County (approximately six miles)
- SECTION 300: East Whiteland Township, Chester County to Tredyffrin Township, Chester County (approximately seven miles)
- SECTION 400: Tredyffrin Township, Chester County to Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County (approximately five miles)
- SECTION 500: Upper Merion Township, Montgomery County to Norristown, Montgomery County (approximately five miles)
- SECTION 600: East Norriton Township, Montgomery County to Montgomery Township, Montgomery County (approximately nine miles)
- SECTION 700: Montgomery Township, Montgomery County to Doylestown Township, Bucks County (approximately nine miles)
- SECTION 800: Doylestown Township, Bucks County to New Hope, Bucks County (approximately ten miles)