New Jersey Route 67

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Route 67
Palisades Avenue
Lemoine Avenue
Maintained by NJDOT
Length: 1.86 mi[1] (2.99 km)
South end: NJ 5 in Fort Lee
Major
junctions:
US 1/9/46 in Fort Lee
I-95 in Fort Lee
North end: US 9W/PIP in Fort Lee
New Jersey State Highway Routes
< NJ 66 NJ 68 >

Route 67 is a short state highway in Fort Lee, New Jersey. It is part of the original alignment of U.S. Route 9W. The road runs 1.86 miles from an intersection with Central Boulevard in Fort Lee (at Route 5) down Palisade Avenue and Lemoine Avenue to an interchange with U.S. Route 9W and the Palisades Interstate Parkway.

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[edit] Route description

Route 67 starts at its intersection with Route 5 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The route runs along Palisades Avenue, a side street, until its name change to Lemoine Avenue at milepost 0.79 near Tom Hunter Drive. Route 67 continues as Lemoine Avenue into downtown Fort Lee. There it intersects with the concurrency of U.S. Routes 1, 9, and 46, which connects Route 67 to either Ridgefield in the west or the George Washington Bridge in the east. 0.03 miles north of this junction, Route 67 intersects with Interstate 95 at its Exit 73, which also serves the George Washington Bridge. Route 67 continues northward, terminating at U.S. Route 9W at milepost 1.86.

[edit] History

Prior to the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 67 was numbered Route S1A, a spur of the former Route 1.

As of December 8, 1977, the area of Route 67 in Downtown Fort Lee was declared a No Passing Zone. [2]

[edit] Major intersections

Municipality Milepost Roads – Destinations
Begin Route 67
Palisades Avenue
Fort Lee 0.00 Route 5 (Central Bouelvard)
0.76 Palisades Avenue
Lemoine Avenue
Fort Lee 1.10 County Route 12 (Main Street)
1.34 U.S. Route 1/9, U.S. Route 46
1.37 Interstate 95, New Jersey Turnpike, George Washington Bridge
1.81 Palisades Interstate Parkway
1.86 U.S. Route 9W
End Route 67

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