New Jersey Route 168
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| Route 168 |
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| Length: | 10.75 mi[1] (17.3 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1959[2] | ||||||||
| South end: |  NJ 42 in Washington Twp |
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| Major junctions: |
ACE in Washington Twp NJ 41 in RunnemedeNJTP in Bellmawr  I-295 in Bellmawr |
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| North end: |  US 130 in Camden |
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Route 168 is a 10.75-mile (17.30 km) state highway in New Jersey, United States, running southeast from Camden to Turnersville in Washington Township. It runs along a part of the Black Horse Pike which carried Route 42 before the North-South Freeway was built.
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[edit] Route description
Route 168 begins at the west end of the Atlantic City Expressway, which feeds into Route 42 in Washington Township. The North-South Freeway begins at that interchange, carrying Route 42 and through traffic from Atlantic City towards Camden; Route 168 continues on the old Black Horse Pike as a surface road. Access from Route 168 south to Route 42 south is simple, as the old pre-freeway alignment still exists. However, northbound traffic from Route 42 must take the ramp to the freeway and exit immediately from the collector/distributor road onto Sicklerville Road to access Route 168.
The first bit of Route 168 is a four-lane divided highway, widened ca. 1932 as part of Route 42. After crossing into Camden County, it becomes a two-lane road, not returning to four lanes until the Interstate 295 interchange in Bellmawr. Prior to that, Route 168 crosses Route 42 in Gloucester Township and Route 41 in Runnemede, and has a full interchange (exit 3) with the New Jersey Turnpike in Bellmawr.
In Haddon Township, Route 168 is a divided highway again, with several jughandles. An interchange with Route 76C provides access to the Walt Whitman Bridge, and, after entering Camden, Route 168 crosses U.S. Route 130 at a channelized intersection. Route 168 runs along the border of Camden and Woodlynne before ending at Ferry Avenue/Cypress Lane (County Route 603); the road continues as Mount Ephraim Avenue (County Route 605) to downtown Camden.
[edit] History
The road that is now Route 168 was taken over ca. 1930 as part of Route 42. In 1958, the first section of the North-South Freeway opened, north from the Route 168 interchange in Gloucester Township, and Route 168 was designated along the former Route 42 north of that interchange. The rest of the Route 42 section of the freeway opened the next year, running south to the Atlantic City Expressway, and Route 168 was extended to its current length.
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[edit] References
- ^ New Jersey Department of Transportation. Route 168 straight line diagram. Retrieved on March 19, 2007.
- ^ Alpert, Steve. New Jersey Roads – History. Retrieved on March 19, 2007.
