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Amboy Rd. was originally part of an extensive Native American trail system used by Algonquian peoples during prehistoric times. [1] Along with parts of Richmond Road and all of Vanderbilt Avenue, Amboy Road forms the last leg of Staten Island's colonial-era eastern corridor that predates the newer, straighter, and wider Hylan Boulevard.
View west along CR 516 at Amboy Road (CR 645) in Old Bridge. The highway extends 19.2 miles (30.9 km) from Route 18/CR 527 in Old Bridge to Route 36 in Middletown.It is known as Old Bridge-Matawan Road for its entire length in Old Bridge where it interchanges with US 9, and then continues several more miles to the Old Bridge/Matawan border, where it enters Monmouth County.
Upon the old line's closing, the Kingston Branch, serving Kingston, New Jersey, began service on the old line in 1866. [3] A branch to Florence, New Jersey was opened in 1872. [3] The New Jersey Rail Road, Camden and Amboy Railroad, and Delaware and Raritan Canal Company moved to a closer association in 1867 when they created a joint board of ...
The New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company was incorporated on March 7, 1832, to build a line from Jersey City, New Jersey, to New Brunswick. [5] The legislature specified that the line was to handle local traffic only. [6] The line opened between Jersey City and Newark, New Jersey, on September 15, 1834.
Map of the Easton and Amboy Railroad. Easton and Amboy Railroad was a railroad built across central New Jersey by the Lehigh Valley Railroad (LVRR) in the 1870s. The line was built to connect the Lehigh Valley Railroad coal hauling operations in Pennsylvania with the Port of New York and New Jersey to serve consumer markets in New York metropolitan area.
Route 440 is a state highway in New Jersey, United States.It comprises two segments, a 5.1-mile (8.2 km) freeway in Middlesex County linking I-287 and the New Jersey Turnpike (), in Edison to the Outerbridge Crossing in Perth Amboy and an 8.1-mile (13.0 km) four-lane divided highway in Hudson County running from the Bayonne Bridge in Bayonne to Truck US 1-9 in Jersey City.
People raised money for the new turnpike, which was to cost $300,000 (1795 dollars) by selling 75,000 shares at $4 apiece. From there, officials would request charters from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania for creation of the highway. Although officials in cities like New Brunswick were supportive of the plan, insufficient funds were ...
Pennsylvania Route 73 (PA 73) is a 62.32-mile (100.29 km) long east–west state highway in southeastern Pennsylvania.It runs from PA 61 near Leesport southeast to the New Jersey state line on the Tacony–Palmyra Bridge over the Delaware River in Philadelphia, where the road continues south as New Jersey Route 73.