expected by late 2010 with a planned opening date in early 2011. The parkway was completed by the end of 2010 between PA 63 and PA 463; this section remained closed to traffic until the remainder of the road was complete, with the exception of a small portion near PA 463. Construction of the US 202 parkway cost $200 million. The parkway opened to traffic at 2 p.m. on December 3, 2012. Lieutenant Governor Jim Cawley cut the ribbon to open the parkway. The parkway was built with four lanes from PA 63 to PA 463 and two lanes from PA 463 to PA 611. It has shoulders, a walking path on the side, and a speed limit. The US 202 parkway was designated as a Pennsylvania Scenic Byway; as such, billboards are banned. On July 7, 2011, an act of the Pennsylvania General Assembly was passed naming the US 202 parkway the George A. Penglase Memorial Parkway in honor of a business leader from Bucks County who pushed for a bypass of US 202. Prior to the opening of the parkway, US 202 followed Dekalb Pike, PA 309, Doylestown Road, Butler Avenue, State Street, and PA 611 between Montgomery Township and Doylestown. After US 202 was rerouted to the parkway, the former alignment was designated as SR 2202 in Montgomery County and SR 4202 in Bucks County. As a result of the removal of the US 202 designation from the former alignment, several businesses along the former route saw declines in customers. In 2014, several businesses along the former US 202 pushed for the state to designate the road as US 202 Bus. in order to help them gain customers. The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering approved the US 202 Bus. designation on May 13, 2015. PennDOT made plans to widen two sections of US 202, from US 30 in East Whiteland Township to North Valley Road in Tredyffrin Township in Chester County, costing $175 million, and from Johnson Highway on the border of Norristown and East Norriton Township to PA 309 in Montgomeryville in Montgomery County, costing $130 million. Preliminary work on the US 30 to North Valley Road widening project involved the replacement of three bridges over US 202 between March 2007 and fall 2008, with an additional four bridges replaced or modified between February 2008 and summer