New Jersey Route 109
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| Route 109 |
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| Maintained by NJDOT and Cape May County | |||||||||
| Length: | 3.06 mi[1] (4.92 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1974[2] | ||||||||
| South end: |  CR 633 at Jackson Street in Cape May |
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| Major junctions: |
 GSP in Lower Twp |
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| North end: |  US 9 in Lower Twp |
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Route 109 is a 3.06-mile (4.92 km) state highway in southern New Jersey, United States, running from U.S. Route 9 in Lower Township south to Jackson Street in Cape May. It crosses one of two road bridges over the Cape May Canal (the other is Route 162), and provides access to the southern end of the Garden State Parkway and County Route 621 (Ocean Drive) as well as to Cape May. Only the section of road in Lower Township is state maintained; the rest is maintained by Cape May County and signed as County Route 633.
[edit] History
The road that is now Route 109 (in Lower Township) was taken over by the state on March 20, 1919 as part of pre-1927 Route 14. In the 1927 renumbering it became part of Route 4, and U.S. Route 9 was extended south from Absecon to Cape May over Route 4 in 1932. In the 1953 renumbering, the Route 4 designation was dropped, leaving the road as only US 9; the next year the Garden State Parkway was completed to its south end.
The Cape May-Lewes Ferry began operations in 1964. In the 1970s, US 9 was rerouted to the ferry (and its Delaware section was added), and the old route to Cape May became Route 109.
