New Castle business route In New Castle,
U.S. Route 422 Business is a route following the original alignment of its parent. At its western edge, the route leaves the freeway and travels as a four-lane highway along the Shenango River. Amongst a combination of residences and light industry, the route meets
US 224. Winding its way through the city center, the route changes directions several times as it functions as portions of State Street, Jefferson Avenue, Washington Street, and, in a more tree-lined residential area, Butler Street. Closer to its eastern edge, it passes commercial development, and 422 Business joins with US 422 as the eastern end of the New Castle bypass.
Kittanning business route In Kittanning,
U.S. Route 422 Business is a route following the original alignment of its parent. It begins in the west with a concurrency with
PA 268, before arching around commercial development in
West Kittanning and crossing the
Kittanning Citizens Bridge. After serving as the major Water Street, the route winds out of Kittanning toward the edge of the bypass.
Indiana business route In Indiana, Pennsylvania,
U.S. Route 422 Business is a loop around
Indiana, Pennsylvania. Despite functioning as a business route for a freeway bypass, the road does not completely follow its parent's original path, nor does it enter the city center. It instead encompasses a much more rural path, starting in the west on Pike Avenue near the outskirts of Indiana, then corresponding with Warren Road and Indian Springs Road, before reaching some development on Wayne Avenue, as it meets back up with the freeway.
Reading business route U.S. Route 422 Business (
US 422 Bus.) is a
business route of
US 422 located in the
Reading,
Pennsylvania area. The route is one of four auxiliary routes of US 422 in Pennsylvania. Its western terminus is at an interchange with
US 222 and US 422 in
Wyomissing. Its eastern terminus is at an interchange with US 422 in
Reiffton. US 422 Bus. heads east from US 222/US 422 along Penn Avenue, passing through Wyomissing and
West Reading. The route has an interchange with the US 422 freeway before it crosses the
Schuylkill River into Reading. US 422 Bus. passes through downtown Reading on the
one-way pair of Franklin Street eastbound and Washington Street westbound, intersecting the southern terminus of
Pennsylvania Route 183 (PA 183) and crossing
US 222 Bus. The business route heads into the eastern part of the city southeast on Perkiomen Avenue before following the one-way pair of Perkiomen Avenue eastbound and Mineral Spring Road westbound into
Mount Penn. US 422 Bus. continues along Perkiomen Avenue to
St. Lawrence, where it intersects the western terminus of
PA 562 and turns southeast. The route passes through Reiffton before it merges into eastbound US 422. With the creation of the
U.S. Highway System in 1926, the road between
Harrisburg and Reading was designated as part of
US 22, which ran along what was designated the
William Penn Highway in 1916 and
PA 3 in 1924, while the road between Reading and
Philadelphia was designated as
US 120, which ran
concurrent with
PA 13. In 1928, the US 120/PA 13 designation between Reading and Philadelphia was changed to US 422/
PA 17 in order to provide for one number for the
Benjamin Franklin Highway. The concurrent state route designations were removed from US 22 and US 422 by 1930. US 22 headed into Reading on Penn Street and continued east to 9th Street, where it turned north and US 422 continued along Penn Street and Perkiomen Avenue east out of Reading. US 22 ran concurrent with
PA 83 between 2nd and 9th streets while US 422 ran concurrent with
PA 73 between Chestnut Street in Reading and 23rd Street in Mount Penn. In 1931, US 22 was moved to a more direct alignment between Harrisburg and
Allentown, and US 422 was extended west along the former alignment between Harrisburg and Reading. The concurrent PA 83 and PA 73 designations were removed by 1966. ==Former==