U.S. Route 1/9 Truck
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| U.S. Route 1/9 Truck |
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| Length: | 4.11 mi[1] (6.61 km) | ||||||||
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| South end: |  US 1/9 in Newark |
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| Major junctions: |
  I-95/NJTP in Newark NJ 440 in Jersey City NJ 7 in Jersey City |
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| North end: |  US 1/9/NJ 139 in Jersey City |
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U.S. Route 1-9 Truck is a section of a United States highway in New Jersey that stretches 4.11 miles from the eastern edge of Newark to the Tonnelle Circle in Jersey City. It is the route that trucks must use because trucks have been banned from the Pulaski Skyway (starting in early 1934), which carries the main routes of U.S. Route 1/9. It also serves traffic accessing Routes 7 and 440.
Due to the heavy traffic on the road, it has been upgraded to a freeway from its south end to about halfway through Kearny. There are also plans to rebuild the part north of Route 7, which was built as part of the Route 1 Extension but bypassed by the Pulaski Skyway, as a freeway feeding into Route 7.
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[edit] History
Before the 1953 renumbering, US 1-9 Truck, as with other U.S. Highways in New Jersey, had a corresponding state highway route number. West (signed south) of the intersection with SR 440, the road was Route 25T (it had been Route 25 until that was moved to the Pulaski Skyway), and north of Route 440, it was part of Route 1, which continued south on Route 440 and north on U.S. Routes 1 and 9 from Tonnelle Circle.
The part south of Route 440 was part of the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental highway in the United States, and still has that name in Kearny.
[edit] Major intersections
| County | Location | Mile [citation needed] |
Roads | Notes |
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| Essex | Newark | 0.00 | U.S. Route 1/9 |
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| 0.41 | Interstate 95 (New Jersey Turnpike) |
I-95/NJTP Exit 15E | ||
| 0.56 | Doremus Avenue, Raymond Boulevard | |||
| Hudson | Kearny | 0.75 | Jacobus Avenue | |
| 1.13 | Central Avenue | |||
| 1.43 | Hackensack Avenue | |||
| Jersey City | 2.27 | Route 440, Communipaw Avenue |
Northern terminus of Route 440 | |
| 2.74 | Duncan Avenue | |||
| 3.09 | Sip Avenue | |||
| 3.34 | U.S. Route 1/9 (Pulaski Skyway) |
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| 3.52 | Broadway | |||
| 3.75 | Route 7 (Newark Avenue) |
Charlotte Circle Eastern terminus of Route 7 |
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| 4.11 | U.S. Route 1/9, Route 139 (Pulaski Skyway, Tonnelle Avenue) |
Tonnelle Circle Western terminus of Route 139 |
[edit] Related routes
U.S. Route 1-9 Truck is a truck route of U.S. Route 1/9. Other spurs of U.S. Route 1 in the state of New Jersey include:
- U.S. Route 1 Business in Trenton
- Former U.S. Route 1 Business in Jersey City, now Route 139
Other spurs of U.S. Route 9 in the state of New Jersey are:
Former Route 25T was a spur of Route 25. Other spurs of Route 25 were:
- Route 25A, a spur from Jersey City west into Newark, now Interstate 280
- Route 25AD, a bridge over the Passaic River between Harrison and Newark, later renumbered Route 158
- Route 25B, a spur to Port Newark, later renumbered Route 65
- Route 25M, a spur to New Brunswick, now Route 171
- Route S25, a spur to the Burlington-Bristol Bridge, now Route 413
