State Route 1002 (Lehigh County, Pennsylvania)

State Route 1002
Main Street; Tilghman Street; Union Boulevard
Route information
Maintained by PennDOT
Length13.794 mi (22.199 km)
Existed1987–present
Major junctions
West endSR 3014 (Church Street) in Fogelsville
Major intersections PA 100 in Fogelsville
US 22 near Kuhnsville
I-476 / Penna Turnpike NE Extension in South Whitehall Township
PA 309 in South Whitehall Township
PA 145 in Allentown
East end PA 378 in Bethlehem
Location
CountryUnited States
StatePennsylvania
CountiesLehigh
Highway system

State Route 1002 (SR 1002), locally known as Tilghman Street and Union Boulevard, is a major 13.8 mi (22.2 km) long eastwest road in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. The majority of the roadway is the former alignment of U.S. Route 22, maintained by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation as a Quadrant Route, and is not signed except on small white segment markers.

Tilghman Street begins at Pennsylvania Route 100 in Fogelsville, though SR 1002 continues west on Main Street, also known as the old US 22, to the intersection of Church Street (SR 3014). It becomes Union Boulevard just east of the bridge over the Lehigh River in Allentown; SR 1002 ends at the interchange with Pennsylvania Route 378 in Bethlehem. Union Boulevard continues over Monocacy Creek, which forms the border between Lehigh and Northampton Counties, and ends in downtown Bethlehem.

As of 2007, an average of 21,018 vehicles used the highway daily in South Whitehall Township and 21,706 in Allentown.