On January 1, 1953, the
New Jersey Highway Department renumbered many of the
State Routes. This renumbering was first proposed in 1951 in order to reduce confusion to motorists.
A few rules were followed in deciding what to renumber:
*No state route and
U.S. Route could have the same number; this eliminated
1 (which was also eliminated by other criteria),
22,
30,
40 and
46. While Route 1 was broken into several pieces, the other four were renumbered as Routes 59, 69, 70 and 77, respectively. Route 69 later became Route 31 after
frequent theft of road signs due to the
sexual connotation of the number.
*
Concurrencies were highly discouraged; this included U.S. Routes and meant that U.S. Route numbers would now be referred to directly by NJDOT.
*No State Route could have a lettered prefix or suffix.
*A State Route that ended at a state border was renumbered to match the number assigned by the adjacent state.
*The
New Jersey Turnpike,
Garden State Parkway
The Garden State Parkway (GSP) is a controlled-access toll road that stretches the north–south length of eastern New Jersey from the state's southernmost tip near Cape May to the New York state line at Montvale. Its name refers to New Jerse ...
, and
Palisades Interstate Parkway
The Palisades Interstate Parkway (PIP) is a limited-access highway in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. The parkway is a major commuter route into New York City from Rockland and Orange counties in New York and Bergen County in New ...
were not to have route numbers.
New numbers assigned semi-arbitrarily included
15 and
20 (13-20 were not assigned in the
1927 renumbering), the sequence from
57 to
93, and
152
Year 152 (Roman numerals, CLII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Glabrio and Homullus (or, less frequently, year 905 ''Ab ...
to
165
Year 165 ( CLXV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Orfitus and Pudens (or, less frequently, year 918 ''Ab urbe condita'' ...
for minor routes (continuing from pre-renumbering
151).
In the table, S routes (like S1 and S1A) is shown with the S after the number (like 1S and 1SA) for sorting reasons.
See also
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1927 New Jersey State Route renumbering
References
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Highway renumbering in the United States