Everything about New Jersey Route 3 totally explained
Route 3 is a
state highway in northern
New Jersey, extening 10.84 miles (17.45 km), connecting
Hudson County and
Passaic County in the west. Its western terminus is at an intersection with
U.S. Route 46 in
Clifton and its eastern terminus is at an intersection with
U.S. Route 1/9 in
North Bergen. Route 3 is sometimes called the
Secaucus Bypass.
The road was the inspiration for a story in
The New Yorker in 2004 by
Ian Frazier.
Route description
The beginning of Route 3 is a
divided highway but not up to
freeway standards, as there are a few businesses on this part of the roadway. Three miles further down, the road becomes a freeway, but doesn't meet
Interstate Highway standards. The intent of this road is to lead towards the
Lincoln Tunnel. From 1939 to 1959, NJ 3 extended east along
Route 495; it was truncated back to its original terminus when the approach was redesignated Interstate 495 (now
New Jersey Route 495) as a spur of
Interstate 95.
The east end at US 1 and 9 was channelized and traffic lights were added in 1959; it had formerly been a circle.
There is a local-express lane configuration between the western spur of the
New Jersey Turnpike and Route 495.
History
Prior to the
1953 renumbering, Route 3 ran from
Paterson along today's
Route 20, through
Clifton,
Passaic,
Wallington,
Carlstadt, and East Rutherford along local streets, and finally down
Paterson Plank Road (part of which is today's
Route 120). The current eastbound bridge over the
Hackensack River was built in 1934; prior to this, the road followed Paterson Plank Road over a no-longer-existing bridge.
The section of what is now Route 3 from US 46 in Clifton to Route 120 in
East Rutherford was built in the late 1940s and early 1950s and was originally designated
Route S3 (indicating a spur of Route 3) until the 1953 renumbering, when Route 3 was shifted onto its current alignment. In 1942, a spur of this road in Clifton was commissioned, later labeled
Route S3 Spur; this route was renumbered
Route 161.
In the
1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 3 in
Secaucus was shifted off its original alignment on surface streets to the newly built Secaucus Bypass. The original alignment then became
Route 153. Only the section west of Paterson Plank Road was state-maintained after the renumbering, and the entire route was decommissioned
c. 1988.
In mid August 2007, the NJDOT announced that it would replace the Route 3 bridge over the
Passaic River (which connects the
City of Clifton to the
Boro of Rutherford). This project is supposed to be completed by December 2007, at an estimated cost of $3.7 million.
Exit list
Related routes
There are two former spurs of Route 3:
- Route S3, now a section of Route 3
- Route S3 Spur, now Route 161
Further Information
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