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EXPRESSWAY THROUGH YOUR CITY'S HEART OPENS VINE HIGHWAY CONNECTS SCHUYLKILL TO I-95
Source:    Dave Bittan, Daily News Staff Writer
Forty years and $225 million after the work began, what highway officials say may be the nation's shortest expressway is open to traffic.

The two-mile Vine Expressway (I-676) welcomed its first cars at 10:30 a.m. yesterday after a mass ribbon cutting at 16th and Vine streets, 26 feet below street level on the highway that is depressed from 22nd Street to 10th. The expressway connects (with the help of the Schuylkill Expressway) two major roadways - the Pennsylvania Turnpike and
Published on 1991-01-11, Page 13, Philadelphia Daily News (PA)