Work on the former section finished a year later, but the work on the latter section would not finish until 1930. The same year it was first signed in the state, it was under construction from Quakertown to Center Valley and Hazleton to the Saint Johns Road/Honey Hole Road intersection in Luzerne County. US 309, US 122, and Right Turn markers on an assembly within the multiplex of the two routes on Bethlehem Pike in Montgomery County. At its northern end in Wilkes-Barre, it followed Hazel Avenue, Park Avenue, and South Street to end at US 11 on River Street. In Allentown, the route followed Fourth Street, Susquehanna Street, Fifth Street, Lehigh Street, Union Street, Eighth Street, Hamilton Street, 17th Street, Tilghman Street, 19th Street, and Walbert Avenue. Signed in 1928, the route began in Philadelphia at an intersection with US 611 then followed Haines Street, Wyncote Avenue, Stenton Avenue and Bethlehem Pike to enter Montgomery County and followed the current PA 309 north to Allentown. One of the two main routes that connected the Philadelphia, Allentown-Bethlehem, and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton areas before the Pennsylvania Turnpike's Northeast Extension opened, US 309 was the predecessor of PA 309.
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