Interstate 80 in New Jersey

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Interstate 80
Main route of the Interstate Highway System
Bergen-Passaic Expressway
Length: 68.54 mi[1] (110.30 km)
Formed: 1959
West end: Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge in Hardwick Twp
Major
junctions:		 US 46/NJ 94 in Knowlton
US 206 in Mount Olive
NJ 15 in Wharton
I-287 in Parsippany-Troy Hills
I-280 in Parsippany-Troy Hills
NJ 23 in Wayne
NJ 19 in Paterson
NJ 20 in Paterson
GSP in Saddle Brook
NJ 17 in Hackensack
East end: I-95/NJTP in Teaneck
New Jersey State Highway Routes
< NJ 79 NJ 81 >
Major cities
Bolded cities are officially-designated control cities for signs
80 Expressway in Knowlton
80 Expressway in Knowlton

Interstate 80 is a major Interstate Highway in the United States, running from the San Francisco Bay Area east to the New York City area. In the state of New Jersey, it runs 68.54 miles (110.30 km) from the Delaware Water Gap to its eastern terminus at Interstate 95 in Teaneck. I-95 continues compass east from the end of I-80 to the George Washington Bridge for access to New York City; access is also provided via the Interstate 280 spur towards the Holland Tunnel and US 46 to Route 3 towards the Lincoln Tunnel.

New Jersey Transit provides commuter rail service to many of the towns along Interstate 80 in New Jersey. Plans are in the works to extend services to Delaware Water Gap and Northeast Pennsylvania using the Lackawanna Cutoff to help relieve the ever expanding traffic congestion on I-80.

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[edit] History

I-80 was first planned in 1936 as a replacement for the cross-state U.S. Route 46, considered again in the 1955 Joint Study of Arterial Facilities. Coming off the George Washington Bridge, Route 4 and US 46 already provided high-speed corridors, but they were overloaded, and so a new corridor in between, the Bergen-Passaic Expressway, was planned to run from the bridge to Paterson.

The planned route west to the Delaware Water Gap was designated in 1956 as Federal Aid Interstate Route 101 by the New Jersey State Highway Department, and was designated Interstate 80 in 1959. The easternmost section of the route, leading to the bridge, had become part of Interstate 95.

The section of I-80 through the Delaware Water Gap had already opened on December 16, 1953, running from the Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge to Route 94 at Columbia.[2] This road was originally planned as part of U.S. Route 46, but was instead signed as a realignment of U.S. Route 611 until April 1965, receiving the Interstate 80 designation in December 1959. Both I-80 signs and US 611 signs would remain until 1973 where the road would officially become strictly Interstate 80. This section of road was built four lanes wide with lower standards, as it was built prior to the Interstate Highway System.

Actual construction of Interstate 80 began circa 1959 between Route 15 and U.S. Route 46 in western Denville; this section was completed in 1961, and was completed west to U.S. Route 206 in Netcong in 1963. The easternmost section between Paterson and the terminus at Interstate 95 in Teaneck was completed in 1964-65.[3][4] The next section was completed in 1967 between U.S. Route 46 in Netcong and Route 15 in Rockaway Township. In 1969, the section between U.S. Route 202 in Parsippany and Route 23 in Wayne was completed. By 1971, the section between Wayne and Paterson was completed.[4] In 1973, the section between U.S. Route 206 in Netcong and U.S. Routes 46 and 611 in Columbia was completed, and that group of roads were realigned into a complex array of ramps. At that point the US 611 tags were removed from the Delaware Water Gap section of the freeway. At the same time, for unrelated reasons, US 611 was decommissioned and became Pennsylvania Route 611. The last section, a 3½-mile section between Route 46 in Denville and Route 202 Parsippany-Troy Hills, was opened in September 1973.[5]

The expressway (like many other interstates in New Jersey) once had solar powered emergency call boxes every 1.0 mile, however with the advent of cell phones the usage of these call boxes became extremely limited. So to save on maintenance costs the NJDOT removed these call boxes in 2005, and with difficulty replacing parts, they are disappearing from many other highways such as I-195, I-280, I-295, I-78, NJ 55, NJ 208.[6][7]

[edit] Exit list

County Location Mile # Destinations Notes
Warren Hardwick Twp. 0.00 Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge over the Delaware River
0.10 1 Old Mine Road - Millbrook, Flatbrookville
0.87 U-turn
Knowlton Twp. 2.05 U-turn
3.39 Hainesburg Road Westbound exit and entrance
4A Columbia Westbound exit is via exit 4B
4.58 4B US 46 east – Buttzville, Portland
4.58 4C NJ 94 north – Blairstown
Hope Twp. 12.03 12 CR 521 to CR 519 – Blairstown, Hope
Allamuchy Twp. 19.88 19 CR 517 – Hackettstown, Allamuchy, Andover
Morris Mt. Olive Twp. 25.25 25 US 206 north – Stanhope, Newton West end of US 206 overlap
26.25 26 US 46 west – Budd Lake, Hackettstown Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Roxbury Twp. 27.19 27A US 206 south – Somerville East end of US 206 overlap
27.19 27B NJ 183 north – Netcong
28.91 28 US 46 east to NJ 10 – Ledgewood, Lake Hopatcong
Mt. Arlington Twp. 30.61 30 Howard Boulevard - Mount Arlington
Wharton 33.58 34 To NJ 15 – Wharton, Dover, Sparta Eastbound exit only; formerly exit 33
34.02 34 To NJ 15 – Wharton, Jefferson, Sparta No eastbound exit; signed as exits 34A (south) and 34B (north)
Rockaway Twp. 35.33 35 Mount Hope, Dover Signed as exits 35A (Dover) and 35B (Mount Hope) westbound
37.63 37 CR 513 – Hibernia, Rockaway
Denville Twp. 38.81 38 US 46 east to NJ 53 – Denville Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
39.57 39 US 46 east to NJ 53 – Denville Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Parsippany-Troy Hills Twp. 42.46 42A US 202 south – Morris Plains
42.46 42B To US 46 – Parsippany No eastbound exit
42.46 42C US 202 north – Parsippany Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
43.62 43 I-287 – Morristown, Mahwah Signed as exits 43A (south) and 43B (north) westbound
To US 46 / Smith Road Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; splits from exit 43B
45.34 45 Lake Hiawatha, Whippany Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
46.36 47A I-280 east – The Oranges, Newark Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
46.50 47B US 46 east – The Caldwells, Montclair Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
46.50 47 US 46 west – Parsippany Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Montville Twp. 47.83 48 Montville, Pine Brook Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Essex Fairfield 52.48 52 Lincoln Park, Fairfield, The Caldwells Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
Passaic Wayne Twp 53.62 53 US 46 east to NJ 3 – Wayne, Clifton, Lincoln Tunnel Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
53.62 53 US 46 / NJ 23 – Wayne, Butler, Verona Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
54.73 54 Minnisink Road - Little Falls, Totowa Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Boro of Totowa 55.21 55 Union Boulevard (NJ 62) - Totowa, Little Falls Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; signed as exits 55A (Little Falls) and 55B (Totowa)
Boro of West Paterson 57.07 56 Squirrelwood Road - West Paterson, Paterson Signed as exits 56A (West Paterson) and 56B (Paterson) eastbound
City of Paterson 58.22 57A NJ 19 south – Clifton
58.22 57B Downtown Paterson
58.37 57C Main Street - Paterson Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
59.06 58 Madison Avenue - Paterson, Clifton Signed as exits 58A (Clifton) and 58B (Paterson)
60.04 59 Market Street - Paterson Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
60.41 60 NJ 20 – Hawthorne, Passaic No ramp from I-80 west to NJ 20 south (use exit 59)
Bergen Boro of Elmwood Park 60.81 61 CR 507 – Garfield, Elmwood Park
Saddle Brook Twp. 62.34 62A GSP / Midland Avenue – Saddle Brook Signed as exit 62 westbound
62B Saddle River Road - Fair Lawn, Lodi Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
63.82 63 To NJ 4 / NJ 17 – Rochelle Park, Paramus, Lodi, Fair Lawn
City of Hackensack 65.19 64A NJ 17 north to NJ 4 – Rochelle Park, Paramus Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
colspan=4!I-80 Westbound Express and Local lanes merge.
65.05-
65.19		 64 NJ 17 south to US 46 east – Hasbrouck Heights, Newark Eastbound exit and westbound entrance.
65.40 64B To NJ 17 south – Hasbrouck Heights, Newark Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
65.67 65 Green Street - Teterboro, South Hackensack
66.55 66 Hudson Street - Hackensack, Little Ferry
Village of Ridgefield Park 67.22 67 Bogota, Ridgefield Park Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Teaneck Twp. 68.17 68A I-95 south / NJTP south to US 46 Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
68.54 68B I-95 north – George Washington Bridge - New York Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
End of Interstate 80

[edit] Related routes

[edit] References

  1. ^ Interstate 80 in New Jersey straight line diagram (PDF)
  2. ^ "NEW SPAN CROSSES DELAWARE RIVER; Fine, Driscoll at Ceremonies for Water Gap Bridge -- Road to Link Poconos and New York", The New York Times, December 17, 1953. p. 51
  3. ^ The Roads of Metro New York - Interstate 80 (New Jersey)
  4. ^ a b New Jersey Roads - NJ State Highways: 75-90, Steve Alpert.
  5. ^ Burks, Edward C. "Vital Stretch of Route 80 Opens In Jersey, Ending Big Bottleneck; Stretch of Route 80 Opens And Eliminates Bottleneck", The New York Times, September 15, 1973.
  6. ^ "Reducing highway safety completely uncalled for", The Record (Bergen County), June 26, 2005. Accessed October 13, 2007.
  7. ^ Barlas, Thomas. "Last call for N.J.'s roadside call boxes", Press of Atlantic City, February 28, 2007. Accessed October 13, 2007. "The state Department of Transportation, or DOT, has removed the last 330 still-operating roadside call boxes on I-295, I-95 and I-280, and Routes 55 and 208."

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