The Mon/Fayette Expressway, Uniontown to Brownsville Project, will close the 17-mile gap in the Mon/Fayette system between the Brownsville to I-70 section and the Uniontown to Fairchance section, both of which are currently in operation. The completion of the Uniontown to Brownsville project in conjunction with the portion of the expressway south of the Pennsylvania border (currently being designed and constructed by the West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways, WVDOH) will provide a continuous 57-mile stretch of highway between I-68 in West Virginia and PA Route 51 in Jefferson Borough, Allegheny County, 18 miles north of I-70 in Washington County, PA.

The purpose of the Mon/Fayette Expressway Uniontown to Brownsville Project is to provide for safer and more efficient vehicular travel by improving access, addressing future capacity requirements and drawing traffic (especially trucks) off U.S. Route 40 and onto a more modern facility. The project also is designed to support the efforts of the National Road Heritage Park, to make Route 40 less of a major transportation artery and more of a local traffic corridor and tourist destination.

Click on the link below to learn more about the history of the Uniontown to Brownsville project.

http://www.mfe-union-to-brown.com/history.htm