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The New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) is a system of controlled-access toll roads in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The turnpike is maintained by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. [a] The 117.2-mile (188.6 km) mainline's southern terminus is at the Delaware Memorial Bridge on I-295 in Pennsville.
Paterson and New Antrim Turnpike November 23, 1825 Paterson - Saddle River - Franklin: No Paterson and New Prospect Turnpike November 23, 1825 Paterson - Ho-Ho-Kus: No Passaic and Hackensack Ferry and Road: January 21, 1828 Newark - Jersey City: Newark Avenue, Communipaw Ave/U.S. Route 1/9 Truck, Ferry Street Yes Hackensack and Fort Lee Turnpike
The New Jersey Turnpike Authority was created by special legislation on April 14, 1949, to regulate the New Jersey Turnpike, which opened to traffic on November 30, 1951. It issued revenue bonds to finance the road based solely on future tolls, without using tax money. [2]
On July 9, 2003, Governor Jim McGreevey's plan to disband the New Jersey Highway Authority and give control of the parkway to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) was completed. [165] Additionally, in November of that year, construction was completed on the $16.23 million exit 89, a new southbound exit and northbound entrance in Lakewood ...
I-287, which is signed north–south in New Jersey and east–west in New York, follows a roughly horseshoe-shaped route from the New Jersey Turnpike in Edison, New Jersey, clockwise to the New England Thruway in Rye, New York, for 98.72 miles (158.87 km). Through New Jersey, I-287 runs west from its southern terminus in Edison through suburban ...
I-95 on the Delaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge in Florence Township: I-95 / US 1 / US 9 on the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee: 1956: current Includes main segment and Western Spur of the New Jersey Turnpike I-195: 34.17: 54.99 I-295 / Route 29 in Hamilton Township: Route 34 / Route 138 / G.S. Parkway in Wall Township: 1968
In New Jersey, it runs along much of the mainline of the New Jersey Turnpike (exit 6 to exit 18), as well as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Turnpike Extension (formerly and still commonly known as the Pennsylvania Turnpike Connector; from exit 6 to the Delaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge), and the New Jersey Turnpike's I-95 Extension (from exit 18 ...
The Thruway continues generally westward to Suffern, where I-87 and I-287 split at a large semi-directional T interchange (exit 15) near the New Jersey border. At this point, I-287 heads south into New Jersey while I-87 and the Thruway turn northward into the valley of the Ramapo River. NY 17 northbound briefly joins the Thruway at the ...