State Route 18 in New Jersey
| SR-18 | |||
| Begin | Belmar | ||
| End | New Brunswick | ||
| Length | 40 mi | ||
| Length | 65 km | ||
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State Route 18 or SR-18 is a state route in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The road is largely a highway in the urbanized coastal area of the New York metropolitan area. The highway connects the suburbs around Belmar and Neptune with the suburb of New Brunswick, located 50 to 100 kilometers from downtown. The route is 65 kilometers long.
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Travel directions
The highway begins in Belmar, a suburb 100 kilometers from Manhattan, at the interchange with Interstate 195, which leads to Trenton. The road has 2×2 lanes and runs through the coastal towns to the north. The area surrounding the highway is often densely wooded, so that little is seen of the enormous urban mass. At Long Branch one crosses the Garden State Parkway, the turnpikealong the New Jersey coast. The SR-18 then curves to the west, temporarily through a slightly less densely built-up area, because a nature reserve and military base is located here. You pass the town of Freehold, which has a population of 32,000, and is completely absorbed in the immense urbanity of central New Jersey. After the intersection with US 9, the highway section ends, and the road continues as a 2×2 main road with at-grade intersections. Large connections are on the same level. Closer to New Brunswick, the road widens to 2×3 lanes. One then crosses Interstate 95, also called the New Jersey Turnpike. Then you cross US 1, a secondary highway parallel to I-95. The road then forms an expresswaythrough New Brunswick on the Raritan River. In Piscataway the road ends on the regular street network of New Brunswick.
History
The highway was developed as an east-west route between New Brunswick and the coastal region around Belmar. Construction started in the mid-1960s, but it was quite stiff. Much of the route was not completed until 1979, with the exception of a missing link in Neptune, which was not opened until 1987 and 1991. Then the large Eatontown Interchange opened with the Garden State Parkway.
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In 1962 there were plans to build a highway from US 1 in New Brunswick to US 22 in Bound Brook, a 15-kilometer-long 2×2 lane highway. Part of this route has actually been constructed, with construction beginning as early as the late 1960s, but opening was delayed until the early 1980s due to new environmental laws that delayed construction by a decade. The expressway through New Brunswick finally opened to traffic in 1983. In 2004, an extension opened to Piscataway. However, the route to I-287 has not been constructed. Between Piscataway and Bound Brook, I-287 now serves as the highway planned in 1962.
Opening history
| Van | Unpleasant | Length | Opening |
| 6 NJ-138 | 8 Corlies Avenue | 3 km | 00-00-1967 |
| 8 Corlies Avenue | 11 Deal Road | 5 km | 00-00-1972 |
| 15 Garden State Parkway | 30 US 9 | 24 km | 00-00-1979 |
| 11 Deal Road | 12 Park Avenue | 2 km | 00-00-1987 |
| 12 Park Avenue | 15 Garden State Parkway | 5 km | 00-00-1991 |
Traffic intensities
The highway is not very busy, with up to 50,000 vehicles on most stretches. Only in East Brunswick does the road briefly peak at 107,000 vehicles per day.
Lane Configuration
| Van | Unpleasant | Lanes |
| SR-138 | US 9 | 2×2 |
State Route 19 in New Jersey
| SR-19 | |||
| Get started | paterson | ||
| End | Clifton | ||
| Length | 3 mi | ||
| Length | 5 km | ||
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State Route 19 or SR-19 is a state route in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The road provides a short connection in the New York metropolitan area, between the cities of Paterson and Clifton. The route is 5 kilometers long.
Travel directions
The highway exits from the Garden State Parkway at Clifton and heads north. There are 2×3 lanes available. It passes through the northern neighborhoods of Clifton, and the southern neighborhoods of Paterson, a city of 149,000 inhabitants. The highway ends at Interstate 80.
History
Route 19 was always planned as a spur from the Garden State Parkway to downtown Paterson. The six-lane highway was built in the late 1960s and completed in 1969 between the Garden State Parkway and Valley Road in Clifton, and the last mile to Interstate 80 in 1971. There were plans at the time for a further ring road around Paterson to the north. of the city, but in 1978 these were called off.
Traffic intensities
Every day 43,000 vehicles use this short highway
Lane Configuration
| From | Unpleasant | Lanes |
| GSP | I-80 | 2×3 |
State Route 21 in New Jersey
| SR-21 | |||
| Get started | Newark | ||
| End | Clifton | ||
| Length | 14 mi | ||
| Length | 23 km | ||
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State Route 21 or SR-21 is a state route in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway forms a north-south route between Newark and Paterson, two cities in the New York metropolitan area. It is a north-south route that connects several suburbs in New Jersey. The highway is 23 kilometers long.
Travel directions
State Route 21 at Clifton.
The McCarter Highway becomes a highway in northern Newark, New Jersey’s largest city. The highway runs parallel to the Passaic River for its entire route. There are 2×3 lanes available, and the highway is partially double-decker at Kearny. You pass the suburbs of Belleville (pop. 36,000), and Nutley (pop. 27,000), in the last town you cross the SR-3, which runs from Clifton to New York. You then pass through Passaic, a suburb of 68,000 inhabitants. Finally, you arrive in Paterson, where you cross the Garden State Parkway. Soon after, the highway ends at Interstate 80.
History
The first plans for a freeway across the west bank of the Passaic River were already in the 1930s, becoming official in 1951. In 1958, the freeway was completed between Newark and Park Avenue in Nutley. In 1962 the highway extended to Passaic Park, in 1968 to Main Avenue in Passaic, and in 1973 to Monroe Street in Passaic. However, the last section of SR-21 to Interstate 80 took longer. Construction of the last 2 kilometers began in 1997, which was completed on December 20, 2000.
Traffic intensities
The highway is relatively quiet with 60,000 vehicles per day.
Lane Configuration
| From | Unpleasant | Lanes |
| I-280 | passaic | 2×3 |
| passaic | I-80 | 2×2 |
