New Jersey Route 60

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Route 60

Deepwater-Ocean City Expressway

New Jersey State Highway Routes
< NJ 59		NJ 62 >

Route 60 was a proposed limited access state highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It would have run from the Delaware Memorial Bridge in the Deepwater neighborhood of Pennsville Township to Ocean City. The freeway was to parallel U.S. Route 40 from its start, then run as a concurrency with Route 55 in Vineland. From there it would have continued east and ended at Ocean City. It was designed as a connection between South Jersey and points west via the Delaware Memorial Bridge. However, the nearby Atlantic City Expressway, combined with a fiscal crisis in the mid-1970s, prevented the freeway from being built.

Despite the plans for the freeway being shelved, the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) hasn't officially taken it off their route log. Route 60 along with Route 74 are the only remaining unbuilt freeways left on the NJDOT route log.^[1]

Ongoing efforts to improve Southern New Jersey's Transportation Infastructure may still yield some form of the Route 60 freeway. Studies done indicate the possible need for a freeway spur from Route 55 to Bridgeton, New Jersey. This same study indicates a need for a limited access interstate freeway from the Delaware Memorial Bridge to Atlantic City, New Jersey. Such a freeway would follow the same proposed path as Route 60, and the number may be revived, since it has not been removed from the NJDOT Route Log.^[2]