The following is a list of
county routes in
Bergen County in the
U.S. state
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. For more information on the county route system in New Jersey as a whole, including its history, see
County routes in New Jersey
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.
500-series county routes
In addition to those listed below, the following
500-series county routes serve Bergen County:
*
CR 501,
CR 502,
CR 503,
CR 504,
CR 505,
CR 507
Other county routes
History
Bergen County has one of the longest-lasting county route systems in New Jersey, being one of only two counties in the state not to switch to a 600-series system with the introduction of the 500-series routes. Bergen County's system dates to the 1920s, and the current system has few changes from its first implementation.
There were two implementations of longer-distance routes. In the late 1930s, a group of three roads in
Bergen County received the numbers 200, 201, and 203. 200 ran from
Oakland to
Alpine
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; 201 ran from
Ridgewood to Alpine; and 203 ran from
Weehawken
Weehawken is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located largely on the Hudson Palisades overlooking the Hudson River. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 17,197. to Alpine. This was the precursor to the 500 series, though with the advent of that system, the 200-series were eliminated by the 1960s. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the county experimented with long-distance routes to cover the whole county. These were numbered from 1 to 17; north–south routes were given odd numbers, and increased numerically from west to east, and east–west routes were given even numbers, and increased numerically north to south. The routes were signed, but have fallen out of fashion to the extent that the NJDOT no longer recognizes them in their route logs.
See also
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References
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Bergen
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