In the

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...

New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...

, the

New Jersey Department of Transportation The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is the agency responsible for transportation issues and policy in New Jersey, including maintaining and operating the state's highway and public road system, planning and developing transportat ...

(NJDOT) maintains a system of

state highways A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...

. Every significant section of roadway maintained by the state is assigned a number, officially State Highway Route X.

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s and

U.S. Highway The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these h ...

s are included in the system. State Routes are signed with the circular highway shield.

Numbering and other details

Major routes are typically assigned one- or two-digit numbers, except where the numbers were chosen to match an adjacent state. Most numbers from 1 to 50 follow a general

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pattern assigned in 1927 (details below), but later additions are more haphazard. The only suffixed routes other than

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are short unmarked connections such as Route 76C, an elongated ramp to

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. The only special state route is Route 33 Business; U.S. Route 1 Business and

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are also present. A statewide system of major

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s is numbered by the NJDOT in the 500-599 range; these are known as 500 Series County Routes. All counties but two –

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and

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– number their other county routes beginning at 600. County routes in Bergen County range from 2 to 134; those in Monmouth County range from 1 to 57. Ocean County also has a system of minor county routes with numbers ranging from 3 to 111 in addition to those beginning with 600.

History

The initial system of state highways was legislated in 1916, and by 1917 the state began to take over roads from the counties. By 1922, the routes were marked. U.S. Route numbers were added to some of the main routes in 1927. NJ 6 (cutout)

After a failed renumbering in 1926, a completely new numbering was instituted in 1927, with only four sections of pre-1927 routes remaining as their old numbers suffixed with N - Route 4N, Route 5N, Route 8N and Route 18N. The new numbers followed a general geographical pattern from north to south - 1–12 in northern New Jersey, 21-28 roughly radiating from

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, 29-37 from Trenton, 38-47 from Camden, and 48–50 in southern New Jersey. Every state highway, even those forming parts of U.S. Routes, was assigned a number. Some short routes were assigned prefixes of S; for instance, Route S26 was a spur of Route 26 south of

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. One prefixed and suffixed route - Route S4A - was also defined as a second spur of Route 4. As the system grew, some numbers beyond 50 were used, but most new routes received prefixed or suffixed labels. NJ 65 (1956)

On January 1, 1953, the second renumbering was implemented. This was not a complete renumbering; instead, the only renumbered routes were those that violated a few guidelines — primarily long concurrencies, especially with U.S. Routes; duplication of numbers with U.S. routes; suffixed routes; and number changes across state borders. Some routes were shortened to remove concurrencies, while others, like Route 25, completely disappeared. Numbers from 53 to 93 were assigned to renumbered routes, while shorter ones received numbers from 152 to 165. The two planned

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s — the

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and

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- received only those names; they had been numbered 4 Parkway and 100. The majority of new numbers assigned since the 1953 renumbering have been from 166 to 185, with some short routes instead receiving numbers based on their parents (for instance, an old section of

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became Route 109). Minimal disruption was caused by the assignment of

numbers in the late 1950s. In the 1990s, the majority of special U.S. Highways were renumbered as state routes.

Interstates

''See:''

List of Interstate Highways in New Jersey There are ten Interstate Highways in New Jersey, including four primary routes and six auxiliary routes. The longest of these is Interstate 95 (I-95), which runs for from Florence Township to Fort Lee. The shortest Interstate in New Jersey is ...

US Routes

''See:''

List of U.S. Routes in New Jersey The following is a complete list of all US Routes that run through the state of New Jersey. Mainline routes Special routes See also * * * State highways in New Jersey *List of Interstate Highways in New Jersey *List of sta ...

State highways

''See:''

List of state highways in New Jersey The following is a list of state highways in the U.S. state of New Jersey. List of routes ...

Parkways and turnpikes

Atlantic City Expressway The Atlantic City Expressway, officially numbered, but unsigned, as Route 446 and abbreviated A.C. Expressway, ACE, or ACX, and known locally as the Expressway, is a long toll road in the U.S. state of New Jersey, managed and operated by ...

(unsigned Route 446) *

(unsigned Route 444) *

Palisades Interstate Parkway The Palisades Interstate Parkway (PIP) is a limited-access highway in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York (state), New York. The parkway is a major commuter route into New York City from Rockland County, New York, Rockland and Orange County ...

(unsigned Route 445) *

(Northern section part of

I-95 Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, running from US Route 1 (US 1) in Miami, Florida, to the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing between Maine and the Canadia ...

and southern section unsigned Route 700) *

Pearl Harbor Memorial Turnpike Extension The New Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) is a system of controlled-access highways in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The turnpike is maintained by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA).The Garden State Parkway, although maintained by NJTA, is not con ...

(southernmost portion of I-95)

Connector roads

*Garden State Parkway exit 105 (unsigned Route 444S) *Garden State Parkway exit 117 (unsigned Route 444R) * Atlantic City–Brigantine Connector (unsigned Route 446X)

External links

New Jersey Department of TransportationUnofficial New Jersey route log
{{DEFAULTSORT:State Highways In New Jersey Lists of roads in New Jersey