Previous US 422 ALT's:
Final ROUTE LOG
US 40: 0 - 0
PA STATE LINE: 1 - 1
US 30: 28 - 29
US 22 WB: 39 - 68
US 23 EB: 23 - 91
US 11, US 111: 44 - 135
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US 422 ALT #1: Created in 1945 or 1946, running from US 422 (now Airy St) Norristown PA to US 1-13 Byp (City Dr at Kelly Rd) Philadelphia. Norristown to Barren Hill was previously unnumbered but the rest was a renumbering of US 422.
US 422 ALT from Norristown to Philadelphia
1950 Official
About 1955, it appears that US 422 and US 422 ALT were swapped below Barren Hill. US 422 and US 422 ALT had a brief overlay on Church Rd between Ridge Ave and Germantown Pike. US 422 ALT now used Germantown Pike into Philadelphia, then Washington Ln over to Wayne Ave to Clarrissa Ave to end at US 1-13 Hunting Park Ave (there is, however, a 1958 Esso map that explicitly shows US 422 ALT following US 1-13 south to where it intersected US 422 at Alleghany Ave). The old US 422 ALT route into the city is Ridge Ave.
US 422 ALT from Norristown to Philadelphia
1960 Official
In August 1960, Pennsylvania requested to decommission US 422 ALT. AASHO told them that it didn't officially exist to them and that the US 422 swap also apparently didn't exist. Today this is Ridge Ave out of Norristown; Church Rd; Germantown Pike; Washington Ln; Wayne Ave; Clarrissa Ave
Oddly, the 1961 Rand McNally showed the upper half of US 422 ALT swapped with US 422, plus 422 ALT was extended around Norristown. No other source corroborates this.
US 422 ALT #2: Appeared between 1951-53 as new routing within Reading PA. Was on one-way splits for its entire routing. EB used 2nd St south from US 422 Penn Ave, then east on Franklin St to end at US 422 Perkiomen Ave on the east end of Reading. WB used Chestnut St from Perkiomen Ave then 4th St north to US 422 Penn Ave.
US 422 ALT in Reading
1960 Official
US 422 was decommissioned when the US 422 bypass came to be in 1962.
US 422 ALT #3: Ran on the freeway east off I-271/480 in Warrensville Heights OH. It is unclear when this was first designated. When the freeway was opened only to OH 91, Ohio Official State maps didn't label it. One Topo map showed it as OH 17. Whenthe freeway was extended to OH 306, Ohio maps showed it as US 422 with the unfinished freeway to OH 44 labeled Futute US 422. Meanwhile the longtime US 422 through Chgagrin Falls was also labeled US 422. A late 1980s Geauga County map labeled it US 422 ALT, as does the 1994 Rand McNally which shows the entire freeway finished and labeled US 422 ALT with US 422 still through Chagrin Falls. Uglybridges names the road US 422A for some of its bridges.
There is no AASHTO documentation to move US 422 to the freeway, which occurred about 1995.
US 422 ALT on unfinished freeway
late 1980s Geauga County
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US 422 ALT on entire freeway
1994 RMcN
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US 422 on the freeway
1996 Official
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