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==Route description== ===Pennsylvania=== [[File:2022-10-09 13 50 07 View east along Interstate 676 and U.S. Route 30 (Vine Street Expressway) from the overpass for Interstate 76 (Schuylkill Expressway) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|left|I-676/US 30 (Vine Street Expressway) eastbound crossing the Schuylkill River and entering Center City Philadelphia]] I-676 begins at an interchange with the Schuylkill Expressway ([[Interstate 76 in Pennsylvania|I-76]] and [[U.S. Route 30 in Pennsylvania|US 30]]) in the city of [[Philadelphia]] in [[Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania]], heading to the east on the six-lane Vine Street Expressway [[concurrency (road)|concurrent]] with US 30. It immediately crosses the [[Schuylkill River]] and then the [[Schuylkill River Trail]] and [[CSX Transportation]]'s [[Philadelphia Subdivision]] railroad line on the river's east bank on the [[Vine Street Expressway Bridge]], before coming to an interchange with 23rd Street and 22nd Street and the [[Benjamin Franklin Parkway]] that has access to the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]] and the [[Franklin Institute]] science museum.<ref name=adc>{{cite map|publisher=[[ADC Map]]|title=Metro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|year=2006|edition=19th|scale= 1"=2000'|pages=62–63|isbn=0-87530-777-9}}</ref><ref name=gm>{{google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=schuylkill+expressway+and+vine+st+expressway+philadelphia,+pa&daddr=39.9,+-75.111667&geocode=FZTLYQIdesiE-ylFVOpjs8fGiTGQRDXguCSuwg%3B&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=39.907366,-75.094728&sspn=0.027455,0.0842&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=12|title=overview of I-676 |access-date=2010-01-11}}</ref> From this point, the Vine Street Expressway enters a [[Cut (earthworks)|depressed road cut]] and passes under several streets and two [[freeway lid]]s, running along the northern edge of [[Center City, Philadelphia|Center City]].<ref name=gm/> [[Vine Street (Philadelphia)|Vine Street]] serves as a street-level [[frontage road]] to the freeway.<ref name=adc/><ref name=gm/> Within this alignment, there is an exit for [[Pennsylvania Route 611]] (PA 611; [[Broad Street (Philadelphia)|Broad Street]]).<ref name=adc/> After passing under 10th Street in [[Chinatown, Philadelphia|Chinatown]], the last street the depressed alignment passes under, the highway rises up and reaches a split between the Vine Street Expressway, which continues to [[Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania|I-95]], and I-676/US 30.<ref name=adc/><ref name=gm/> At this split, there is also an eastbound exit and westbound entrance for 8th Street.<ref name=adc/> After exiting the Vine Street Expressway, eastbound I-676/US 30 has a brief at-grade portion along southbound 6th Street east of [[Franklin Square (Philadelphia)|Franklin Square]] to the [[Benjamin Franklin Bridge]] approach, where westbound and eastbound traffic actually have a traffic light intersecting Franklin Street and 6th Street respectively, an example of a [[List of gaps in Interstate Highways|non–limited access section]] of Interstate Highway.<ref name=adc/><ref name=gm/> Westbound I-676/US 30 has a ramp from the bridge to the Vine Street Expressway that intersects 7th Street and 8th Street at-grade.<ref name=adc/> From this point, I-676/US 30 crosses over I-95, [[Columbus Boulevard (Philadelphia)|Christopher Columbus Boulevard]], and then the [[Delaware River]] on the seven-lane Benjamin Franklin Bridge, which also carries pedestrians and the [[PATCO Speedline]].<ref name=adc/><ref name=gm/> This bridge and its approaches are maintained by the [[Delaware River Port Authority]] (DRPA).<ref name="NJDOT" /> ===New Jersey=== [[File:2018-10-03 12 37 53 View north along Interstate 676 (North-South Freeway) just north of Interstate 76 in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|View north along I-676 just north of I-76 in Camden, New Jersey]] After crossing the bridge, the freeway enters the downtown area of the city of [[Camden, New Jersey|Camden]] in [[Camden County, New Jersey]], and passes to the north of the former site of [[Campbell's Field]], a former baseball stadium.<ref name="NJDOT" /><ref name=gm/> Upon entering New Jersey, I-676 becomes signed as a north–south road.<ref name="NJDOT" /> There is a southbound ramp to 6th Street in Camden, which is near the [[toll plaza]] for northbound traffic. After the toll plaza, [[U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey|US 30]] splits from I-676 at an interchange, at which point I-676 turns south as a six-lane freeway called the Martin Luther King Memorial Highway or the North–South Freeway. Immediately after the US 30 split, there is an interchange with [[County Route 537 (New Jersey)|County Route 537]] (CR 537; Market Street/Federal Street) and Martin Luther King Boulevard that provides access to downtown Camden. Within this interchange, the highway passes over [[NJ Transit]]'s [[River Line (NJ Transit)|River Line]].<ref name="NJDOT" /><ref name=gm/> From this point, I-676 continues south through urban areas of the city, passing over several streets and running immediately to the west of [[Conrail Shared Assets Operations]] (CSAO)'s [[Vineland Secondary]] railroad line and the PATCO Speedline.<ref name=gm/> The road heads southwest on a viaduct over neighborhoods before the interchange with CR 607 (Kaighns Avenue) and Atlantic Avenue.<ref name="NJDOT" /><ref name=gm/> I-676 turns south at this junction, crossing over the Vineland Secondary. The highway continues south and passes over CSAO's Beesleys Point Secondary railroad line before it comes to the exit for Morgan Boulevard. Past Morgan Boulevard, the freeway crosses the north branch of Newton Creek.<ref name="NJDOT" /> Here, I-676 ends at an interchange east of the [[Walt Whitman Bridge]] with I-76, CR 630 (Collings Avenue), and unsigned [[New Jersey Route 76C|Route 76C]], the latter being an access road to [[U.S. Route 130|US 130]] and [[New Jersey Route 168|Route 168]]. The North–South Freeway becomes a part of I-76 past this interchange and continues into the city of [[Gloucester City, New Jersey|Gloucester City]].<ref name="NJDOT" /><ref name=gm/>
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