Is there a legitimate way for me to line up PA 857 with US 119 and PA 43? My initial intuition based on signage says no, but is there a precedent for allowing this?
Currently PA 857 does not connect with another route in the HB though it does intersect US 119 NB at its northern end as it turns onto PA 43 NB.
GSV from the PA 43 NB and PA 43 SB off-ramps shows only "TO PA 857" shields. US 119 SB traffic must use the PA 43 SB off-ramp.
To make this even weirder, Morgantown Rd is shown as SR 119 to the US 40 WB off-ramp.
Going from the US 40 WB off-ramp to PA 857 on Morgantown Rd southbound, GSV shows "TO South US 119" roughly halfway between US 40 and PA 857, but "South US 119" (*no* "TO") at the sign complex at the intersection. Coupled with the SR 0119 numbering extending north, I'd say this could argue for US 119 to extend in *both* directions at least as far as PA 857. The PennDOT goes and screws everything up, by marking the ramp from northbound US 119 to northbound PA 43 as "TO North US 119" when in no way should there be a "TO" banner there at all... and the top of the ramp from NB PA 43 has no signage at all, just bare posts, in the current GSV. Yeah, this is a bit of a fustercluck.
Technically by PennDOT standards I think there may be a discontinuity in US 119. That doesn't mean we have to reflect this in the HB, but we may have some latitude in deciding just how to do the connection, which could include a junction with PA 857.
