New Jersey Route 91

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Route 91

Jersey Avenue
Maintained by NJDOT

Length:

2.26 mi^[1] (3.64 km)

Formed:

1953

South end:

US 1 in North Brunswick Twp

North end:

Van Dyke Avenue in New Brunswick
(continues as

CR 693)

New Jersey State Highway Routes
< NJ 90		NJ 92 >

Route 91 is a 2.26-mile (3.64 km) state highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey, running along Jersey Avenue from U.S. Route 1 in North Brunswick Township to Van Dyke Avenue in New Brunswick. Past Van Dyke Avenue, Jersey Avenue continues northeast as the 1.10-mile (1.77 km) County Route 693 to Route 27 near downtown New Brunswick. The maximum speed limit on Route 91 is 40 mph along the main road and 30 mph along the Jersey Avenue Connector.^[2]

State Route 91 begins at the interchange of U.S. Route 1 and the NJ 91 connector. The road intersects the connector after about .28 of a mile and then enters New Brunswick at the How Lane traffic light at milepost 1.26. The road continues for another mile, ending at an intersection with Van Dyke Avenue on the outskirts of New Brunswick.

1 Route description
2 History
3 Major junctions
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Route description

New Jersey Route 91 begins at an interchange with U.S. Route 1 in North Brunswick.^[1] The road starts going northbound as Jersey Avenue and soon interchanges with Middlesex County Route 680, also known as How Lane. Turning right on How Lane will bring you to State Route 26, while turning left will take you to State Route 27. Continuing northbound, the designation, State Route 91 ends at a T-intersection with Van Dyke Avenue in the outskirts of New Brunswick. The road continues into downtown New Brunswick as Middlesex County Route 693.^[1]

[edit] History

Route 26A was taken over by the state by 1941 as a spur of Route 26. Route 26 ran from Trenton to New Brunswick (now mostly U.S. Route 1), crossing over the Pennsylvania Railroad main line (now Amtrak's Northeast Corridor) in North Brunswick. As Route 26 left the path of the old Trenton and New Brunswick Turnpike to cross the railroad, Route 26A continued on the old turnpike to near the old railroad crossing, splitting onto a new alignment to stay northwest of the railroad, ending at Van Dyke Avenue. The existing Jersey Avenue beyond Van Dyke Avenue was taken over by Middlesex County as County Route 3R20, later renumbered County Route 693.

In the 1953 renumbering, Route 26A became Route 91, as all suffixed routes were renumbered. Route 91 was defined to extend beyond Van Dyke Avenue to Route 27, but that has never been taken over by the state, and Route 91 now officially ends at Van Dyke Avenue.

[edit] Major junctions

County	Location	Mile^[1]	Roads intersected	Notes
Middlesex	North Brunswick Township	0.00	U.S. Route 1	Southern terminus of
	New Brunswick	1.26	CR 680 (How Lane)
	New Brunswick	2.26	Van Dyke Avenue	Northern terminus of