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====Roads==== {{further|Allentown Parking Authority}} [[File:2022-08-16 08 58 29 View west along Interstate 78 and north along Pennsylvania State Route 309 just northwest of Exit 57 in Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|[[Interstate 78 in Pennsylvania|I-78]] West and [[Pennsylvania Route 309|PA Route 309]] North in August 2022]] [[File:Allentown PA - Hamilton St.jpg|thumb|[[Hamilton Street]] in [[Center City Allentown|Center City]] in November 2007]] There are {{convert|314.10|mi}} of public roads in Allentown, {{convert|26.16|mi}} of which are maintained by the [[Pennsylvania Department of Transportation]] (PennDOT) and {{convert|287.94|mi}} that are maintained by the city as of 2022.<ref name=PennDOTmap>{{cite web |url=https://gis.penndot.gov/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Type5/39301.pdf |title=Allentown City map |publisher=PennDOT |access-date=March 17, 2023 |archive-date=March 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317182357/https://gis.penndot.gov/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Type5/39301.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> The most prominent highway passing through Allentown is [[Interstate 78 in Pennsylvania|Interstate 78]], which runs concurrently with [[Pennsylvania Route 309]] along an east–west alignment across the southern portion of the city. I-78 runs from [[Lebanon County, Pennsylvania|Lebanon County]] in the west to the [[Holland Tunnel]] and [[Lower Manhattan]] in the east, while PA 309 runs from [[Philadelphia]] in the south to the [[Wyoming Valley]] in the north. [[U.S. Route 22 in Pennsylvania|U.S. Route 22]] briefly passes through the northwestern corner of the city as it follows the Lehigh Valley Thruway along an east–west alignment; it runs from [[Cincinnati|Cincinnati, Ohio]] in the west to [[Newark, New Jersey]] in the east. There are nine major inbound roads to [[Center City Allentown|Center City]]: [[Pennsylvania Route 987|Airport Road]], [[Cedar Crest Boulevard]], Fullerton Avenue, [[Pennsylvania Route 222|Hamilton Boulevard]], [[Lehigh Street]], Mauch Chunk Road, [[Pennsylvania Route 145|MacArthur Road]], [[State Route 1002 (Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)|Tilghman Street]], and Union Boulevard. [[Interstate 476]], the Northeast Extension of the [[Pennsylvania Turnpike]], passes to the west of the Allentown city limits. It runs from [[Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania|Plymouth Meeting]] outside Philadelphia in the south to [[Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania|Interstate 81]] at [[Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania|Clarks Summit]] in the north.
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