1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering
This article is part of the highway renumbering series. | |
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Alabama | 1928, 1957 |
Arkansas | 1926 |
California | 1964 |
Colorado | 1953, 1968 |
Connecticut | 1932, 1963 |
Florida | 1945 |
Indiana | 1926 |
Iowa | 1926, 1969 |
Louisiana | 1955 |
Maine | 1933 |
Massachusetts | 1933 |
Minnesota | 1934 |
Missouri | 1926 |
Montana | 1932 |
Nebraska | 1926 |
Nevada | 1976 |
New Jersey | 1927, 1953 |
New Mexico | 1988 |
New York | 1927, 1930 |
North Carolina | 1934, 1937, 1940, 1961 |
Ohio | 1923, 1927, 1962 |
Pennsylvania | 1928, 1961 |
Puerto Rico | 1953 |
South Carolina | 1928, 1937 |
South Dakota | 1927, 1975 |
Tennessee | 1983 |
Texas | 1939 |
Utah | 1962, 1977 |
Virginia | 1923, 1928, 1933, 1940, 1958 |
Washington | 1964 |
Wisconsin | 1926 |
Wyoming | 1927 |
In 1927, New Jersey's state highways were renumbered. The old system, which had been defined in sequence by the legislature since 1916, was growing badly, as several routes shared the same number, and many unnumbered state highways had been defined. A partial renumbering was proposed in 1926, but instead a total renumbering was done in 1927.
Some amendments were made in 1929, including the elimination of Route 18N (by merging it into Route 1), and the addition of more spurs, as well as Route 29A, but the system stayed mostly intact until the 1953 renumbering.
Proposed 1926 Renumbering
editA partial renumbering was proposed in 1926 to get rid of the duplicates and assigning numbers to many of the unnumbered routes. The proposed 1926 renumbering would have:
- extended Route 4 over Route 19
- renumbered Route 17N to Route 17
- renumbered Route 18N to Route 18
- renumbered Route 18S to Route 19
- designated Route 21 from Trenton to Buttzville
- renumbered Route 17S to Route 22
- renumbered Route 18 (unsuffixed) to Route 23
- designated Route 24 from Mount Holly to Freehold
- renumbered the Route 20 "from a point on Route No. 3, extending by way of West Berlin, Gibbsboro and Haddonfield, connecting with Haddon Avenue in the Borough of Haddonfield, and continuing to approach the Delaware River Bridge" to Route 25, and extended it from West Berlin to Blue Anchor[1] [n 1]
- designated Route 26 from Five Points to Hammonton
- designated Route 27 from Camden to Atlantic City
- designated Route 28 from South Amboy to Atlantic Highlands
- designated Route 29 from Morristown to Hackettstown
- designated Route 30 from Far Hills to Tri-State
It was eventually determined that an entire overhaul of the numbering system was necessary.
Design
editChapter 319 of the 1927 public laws defined the new system of routes. Major roads received numbers from 1 to 12 and 21 to 50, as follows:
- 1-12: northern New Jersey
- 21-28: radiating from Newark
- 29-37: radiating from Trenton
- 38-47: radiating from Camden
- 48-50: southern New Jersey
Spurs were also defined, being assigned a prefix of S. For example, Route S26 was a short spur of Route 26 connecting to Route 25 south of New Brunswick. A second spur of Route 4 was assigned Route S4A, but two separate spurs of Route 24 both received the Route S24 designation.
While the majority of already-acquired routes were included in the new system, four sections of pre-1927 routes were not. The law authorizing the renumbering indicated that these were to remain, and so the State Highway Commission added a suffix of N to distinguish them from the new routes of the same number:
- Route 4N from pre-1927 Route 4, Eatontown to Belmar
- Route 5N from pre-1927 Route 5, Morris Plains to Denville
- Route 8N from pre-1927 Route 8, Sussex to Unionville, New York
- Route 18N from pre-1927 Route 18N, Fort Lee to Alpine
List of new routes
editAdditions
edit1929 Amendment
editChapter 126 of the 1929 public law amended the 1927 act, removing redundant designations and creating entirely new roads in the New York Metropolitan Area. The amendments included
- Realigning Route 1 onto Route 18N, still left over from the first 1916 system
- Establishing Route S1A, today Route 67, from the remnants of Route 18N not taken over by Route 1 (Lemoine and Palisades Avenues)
- Truncating Route 3 to the Hawthorne-Paterson Line
- Establishing Route S3 (served by modern Route 3), running from Route 3 in East Rutherford to Route 6 in Clifton
- Declaring that Route S4A would be built, "provided, however, the county of Atlantic shall first agree to construct a suitable continuation of said road from Little Beach to the city of Atlantic City". Atlantic County was unable to build most of this extension, hence Route S4A was never built; the portions that were built became designated as Route 87
- Establishing Route S4B, replacing the truncated sections of Route 3 (served today by Route 208)
- Truncating Route 5 to roughly its current length, with an extension to the centre of Ridgefield
- Realigning Route S5 onto the southern portion of Grand Avenue (modern Route 93)
- Realigning Route 6 to a new alignment east of Caldwell Township, bypassing Paterson
- Creating Route S6 (including modern Route 62) along the portions of Union Boulevard formerly used by Route 6
- Truncating Route 7 to Wallington
Other Additions
editRoute | From | To | Legislated | Modern
Designation |
Notes | |
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Route 2N | Lyndhurst | Nutley | 1938 c. 269 | Kingsland and Park Ave | ||
Route S3 Spur | Route S3 | Clifton | 1942 c. 77
Named 1948 c. 221 |
161 | ||
Route 4A | Old Bridge | West Freehold | 1942 | 34, 79 | Replaced realigned section of Route 4 | |
Route S4C | Bennet | Cape May | 162, Beach Ave, Broadway, Seashore Road | |||
Route S4D | Teaneck | Tappan, NY | 1938 c. 134 | Designated as Route 303 in 1953 renumbering to connect to NY equivalent; cancelled shortly after | ||
Route 6A | Dover | Frankford | 1938 c. 47 | 15 | ||
Route 6M | Montville | Fairfield | 1941 | 159 | Replaced realigned section of Route 6 | |
Route 10N | Paterson | Ridgefield | 1929 | Hackensack Plank Road | Replaced realigned section of Route 5; eliminated by 1930s | |
Route 11N | Passaic | Paterson | 1929 | Main Ave | Replaced truncated section of Route 7 | |
Route 13E | Point Pleasant | Bay Head | 1938 c. 238 | 13 | ||
Route 17 | Suffern, New York | North Arlington | 1942 | 17 | Route 2 renumbered to Route 17 to create one single route from the Great Lakes to the New York City area for WWII caravans | |
Route 18 | Old Bridge | Eatontown | 1939 c. 243 | 18 | New freeway designated. | |
Route 19 | Paterson | Belleville | 1939 c. 200 | Marshall Street, Hazel Street, Paulison Avenue, River Drive (old routing of 21) | Became part of Route 21 in 1948. | |
Route 24-28 Link | Philipsburg | 1940 | Morris St | When Route 24 was rerouted onto a freeway north of Morris St, the remnants were still state-maintained to link Routes 24 and 28 | ||
Route 25A | Newark | Harrison | 1939 c. 198 | I-280 | Renumbered to Route 58 in 1953; in 1997, the designation was dropped in favour of I-280 | |
Route 25AD | Newark | Harrison | 158 | Locally called the Center Street Bridge; designation removed 1960, bridge demolished in 1979 | ||
Route 25B | Newark | 1939 c. 317 | Port Street, Doremus Ave | Renumbered to Route 65 in 1953; removed from state highway system in 1963 | ||
Route 25M | North Brunswick | New Brunswick | 1940 | 171 | A former alignment of US-130 | |
Route S25 | Bristol, PA | Burlington | 1929 c. 57 | 413 | ||
Route 25T | East Ferry | Jersey City | US 1/9 Truck | Truck route of Route 25, due to ban of trucks on Pulaski Skyway of the time | ||
Route 26A | Adams | New Brunswick | 1941 | 91 | ||
Route 28A | The only evidence of this route is the fact that it was later absorbed into US-22; possibly 24-28 link | |||||
Route 28-29 Link | North Branch | Bridgewater | 1938 c. 17 | US-22 | US-22 Bypass of Route 28 | |
Route 29A | New Hope | Frenchtown | 1929 c. 241 | 29 | ||
Route 29B | Frenchtown | Philipsburg | 1938 c. 183 | CR 519 | ||
Route S29 | Lambertville | New Hope, PA | 1949 | 179 | ||
Route 31A | Princeton | Hightstown | 1941 c. 105 | Princeton-Hightstown Street, 64 | ||
Route 33-35 Link | Tinton Falls | Neptune Township | 66 | |||
Route S41A | Berlin | Folsom | 1938 c. 299 | 73 | ||
Route S41N | Wrightsville | Palmyra | 1941 | 155 | ||
Route S43 | Germania | Northfield | 1938 c. 216 | CR 563 | ||
Route S44 | Bridgeport | Bridgeport Ferry | 1938 c. 374 | 324 | ||
Route S44A | Ellisburg | Brooklawn | 1938 c. 374 | CR 551 Spur | Also known locally as Kings Highway | |
Route 44T | Paulsboro | Deptford | 1938 c. 367 | Designed to form a connection from a Paulsboro-Essington Bridge; never built | ||
Route 51 | Bridgeport | Williamstown | 1939 | US-322 | ||
Route 52 | Somers Point | Mays Landing | 1937 | Somers Point Road | ||
Route 54 | Hammonton | Vineland | 1938 c. 43 | 54, Lincoln Avenue | ||
Route 55 | Pleasantville | Atlantic City | 1938 c. 83 | US 40 | Replaced truncated section of Route 48; became part of Route 48 again in 1948 | |
Route 55 | New York | Teaneck | 1948[2] | unbuilt northern extension of the New Jersey Turnpike; deleted by 1964 | ||
Route 56 | Absecom | Atlantic City | 1938 c. 177 | US 30, Absecon Blvd | ||
Route S56 | Atlantic City | 1941 | 87, 187 | |||
Route 84 | Sussex | Unionville, NY | 1942 | 284 | Renumbering of 8N; renumbered 284 to avoid confusion with nearby I-84 | |
Route 100 | New Brunswick | Fort Lee | 1938 c. 50 | New Jersey Turnpike | Originally planned to extend to Route 26 | |
Route S100 | Elizabeth (Route 100) | Elizabeth (Route 25) | 1938 c. 50 | 81 | ||
Route 101 | Kearny | Hackensack | 1939 c. 105 | 21, 17 | Never built | |
Route S101 | Hackensack | Montvale | 1951 c. 289 | 444 | ||
Route 151 | Camden | 1946 c. 115 | S10, S11 Aves, Memorial Ave, Flanders Blvd | Administration given back to Camden after 1969 | ||
Route 300 | Delaware Memorial Bridge | New Brunswick | 1947 c. 259 | New Jersey Turnpike | ||
Route 700 | Delaware Memorial Bridge | US 46 in Ridgefield | 1952 | New Jersey Turnpike |
Notes
edit- ^ This route was cancelled in the final 1927 numbering
- ^ Lines marked "L" indicate the year and chapter of the legislation marking the route.
- ^ Many routes have since been rerouted off of local roads and onto freeways, especially near New York City, Trenton, and Philadelphia. The designations listed below show the modern route that serves the corridor of the original route
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "NJ's First Renumbering (1927)". jimmyandsharonwilliams.com.
- ^ Central NJ Home News, page 2, October 19, 1948