New Jersey Route 179
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| Route 179 |
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| Maintained by NJDOT | |||||||||
| Length: | 7.46 mi[1] (12.01 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1965[2] | ||||||||
| South end: |  PA 179 at the Pennsylvania state line in Lambertville |
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| Major junctions: |
 NJ 29 in Lambertville US 202 in East Amwell CR 579 in East Amwell |
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| North end: |  US 202/NJ 31 in Ringoes |
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Route 179 is a 7.46-mile (12.01 km) state highway in New Jersey, United States, running along an old alignment of U.S. Route 202 from the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge across the Delaware River northeast through Ringoes. The route was formed in 1974 when the new US 202 freeway, running over the New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge, was completed.
Route 179 begins in Lambertville at the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge over the Delaware River, which crosses over into New Hope, Pennsylvania as Pennsylvania Route 179. At Main Street, Route 29 joins for a block (in the opposite direction as Route 179), and, at the end of the concurrency, Route 29 turns south (onto Route 165) and Route 179 turns north. From here the road continues northeast, crossing the US 202 freeway before intersecting the old Route 31 (now County Route 579) at Ringoes and continuing to end at the combined US 202/Route 31 at the west end of County Route 514 in East Amwell Township.
[edit] History
Prior to the 1953 renumbering, Route 179 was three routes - Route S29 from the New Hope-Lambertville Bridge into Lambertville, part of Route 29 from Lambertville to Ringoes, and a concurrency of Routes 29 and 30 northeast from Ringoes. (In the original 1927 plan, Route 29 would have continued northeast from the end of Route 179 along current County Route 514, but it was instead modified to continue north with Route 30 to Flemington, using what had been planned as Route 12 to Somerville.)
In the 1953 renumbering, the whole route was designated as part of U.S. Route 202. (Route 30 became Route 69, and is now Route 31.) The bypass of Ringoes opened ca. 1965, and Route 179 was designated for the old alignment. (On the other hand, the old Route 31 into Ringoes was dropped from the state highway system, remaining only part of County Route 579.) The new US 202 freeway was completed in 1971, running from the new New Hope-Lambertville Toll Bridge to the junction of old and new alignments southwest of Ringoes. Route 179 was then extended to the state line in Lambertville.
[edit] References
- ^ New Jersey Department of Transportation. Route 179 straight line diagram. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
- ^ Alpert, Steve. New Jersey Roads – History. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
