The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is hereby authorized and empowered at any time and from time to time, to construct, improve and reconstruct, as projects, on any part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike System as hereinafter described, now open to vehicular traffic, improvements, betterments, extraordinary maintenance and repairs including toll plazas, interchanges, bridges, additional tunnels and lanes on the following sections of the Pennsylvania Turnpike:
(1) Between the Irwin and Carlisle interchanges (commonly referred to as the original turnpike).(2) Between the Ohio line and Irwin interchanges (commonly referred to as the western extension).(3) Between the Carlisle and Valley Forge interchanges (commonly referred to as the Philadelphia extension).(4) From the Valley Forge interchange to and including the Delaware River Bridge (commonly referred to as the Delaware River extension).(5) From the junction with the Delaware River extension to the Scranton terminus (commonly referred to as the northeastern extension). All of the preceding sections and extensions shall be included in the meaning of the term Pennsylvania Turnpike System.1959, Sept. 8, P.L. 828, § 2. Amended 1978, Nov. 26, P.L. 1411, No. 331, § 1, imd. effective.