At Belmont Avenue, the road changes designation to State Route 3005 and runs to the eastern terminus at 34th Street.

[8] By the 1840s, the use of railroads and canals dealt a serious blow to the companies who specialized in the manufacture of wagons and coaches.

During the next fifty years, the road suffered from lack of use and maintenance, but later saw recovery with the invention of the automobile.

In 1876, the parallel Pennsylvania Railroad bought the turnpike from 52nd Street in Philadelphia west to Paoli for $20,000 (equal to $572,250 today) to prevent competing streetcar companies from building along it.

[9] In 1926 it was designated as part of U.S. Route 30 along with the rest of the original United States Numbered Highways.