New Jersey Route 17
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Maintained by NJDOT | ||||
Length | 27.20 mi[1] (43.77 km) | |||
Existed | 1942 (1927 as Route 2)–present | |||
Major junctions | ||||
South end | Route 7 / CR 507 in North Arlington | |||
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North end | border in Mahwah | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | New Jersey | |||
Counties | Bergen | |||
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Route 17 is a state highway in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, that provides a major route from the George Washington Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel and other northeast New Jersey points to the New York State Thruway at Suffern, New York. It runs 27.20 mi (43.77 km) from an intersection with Route 7 and County Route 507 (CR 507) in North Arlington north to the New York border along Interstate 287 (I-287) in Mahwah, where New York State Route 17 (NY 17) continues into New York. Between Route 7 and Route 3 in Rutherford, Route 17 serves as a local road. From Route 3 north to the junction with U.S. Route 46 (US 46) in Hasbrouck Heights, the road is an arterial road with jughandles. The portion of Route 17 from US 46 to I-287 near the state line in Mahwah is an expressway with all cross traffic handled by interchanges, and many driveways and side streets accessed from right-in/right-out ramps from the right lane. For three miles (5 km) north of Route 4, well over a hundred retail stores and several large shopping malls line the route in the borough of Paramus. The remainder of this portion of Route 17 features lighter suburban development. The northernmost portion of Route 17 in Mahwah runs concurrently with I-287 to the New York border.
Prior to 1927, the route was designated as Route 17N, which was to run from
border in 2008. The route is currently undergoing improvements between Route 3 and US 46 and is expected to see improvements from Williams Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights to south of Route 4 in Paramus.Route description
Past the Route 3 interchange, Route 17 continues north as a six-lane
In Hasbrouck Heights, the lanes split with the Bendix Diner located between the traffic lanes at the intersection of CR 40 (Williams Avenue), the northernmost
At the CR 61 (Farview Avenue) interchange, the road regains a third lane in each direction. Route 17 passes by the
Route 17 crosses into
Route 17 enters
History
Route 17 follows the course of the Haginsack Trail, an old Lenape Trail running north from what is now Newark to Suffern, New York, and possibly beyond. The Franklin Turnpike was legislated in 1806 to run from Hackensack north to the New York state line at Suffern. This road was incorporated into two auto trails: the Liberty Highway, signed in 1918 to run from Cleveland, Ohio, to New York City; and the West Shore Route, which ran from New York City to Albany. Both routes followed the same roads in New Jersey, coming in from Suffern, along the Franklin Turnpike, Paramus Road and Passaic Avenue, and local roads through Teaneck and Englewood before taking a ferry at Englewood Cliffs to New York.[4]
Route 17N was defined in 1923 to run "from Newark, by way of Kearny, Rutherford, Hackensack, Ridgewood and Ramsey to the New York State Line".
Location | North Arlington–New York state line |
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Existed | 1927[7]–1942[8] |
In the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 17N received the Route 2 designation, and was defined to run from Route 7 in North Arlington to the New York border near Suffern, New York.[7][9] By 1937, the whole old road north of Rutherford was bypassed by a new four-lane divided highway with the exception of the 1927 bridge over the Saddle River in Ridgewood, north of the Paramus Road interchange.[10] This old alignment joins at Paramus Road and leaves just north of the bridge at Franklin Turnpike, which only has access to the southbound lanes through a RIRO intersection.[2] A short-lived spur of Route 2, Route 2N, was defined in 1938 to run from Route 2 (Ridge Road) in Lyndhurst west along Kingsland Avenue and over the Passaic River on the Park Avenue Bridge into Nutley, where it would end at Union Avenue (west of Route 7).[11] In 1930, New York had renumbered its state routes; the extension of Route 2 north and west into New York had remained NY 17. New Jersey had not assigned a Route 17 in the 1927 renumbering, and so in March 1942, Route 2 was numbered Route 17 to match and provide a single number for military caravans during World War II.[8]
Since at least 1936, Route 17 (then Route 2) was planned for upgrading to a freeway, not only north of US 46, but also south to the Newark area. The first plan for a freeway along the length of the route was halted due to World War II, and the second plan for a freeway in the 1960s was cancelled due to the disruption it was projected to cause to businesses and residents along its path.[12] In 1972, there were plans to extend Route 17 past Route 3 to I-280 in Harrison. The plans for this 5 mi (8.0 km), $50 million extension were cancelled due to the defeat of a transportation bond that would have funded the proposed freeway. The interchange at Route 3 was built to allow for this southern extension.[13] Another extension of Route 17 to the New Jersey Turnpike was brought up in 1987, but was ultimately scrapped.[14]
The road north of Route 3 was gradually rebuilt to higher standards between 1953 and 1960; most of this portion of Route 17 was upgraded to six lanes and most at-grade intersections were removed north of I-80 in Lodi.
Route 17 has been the object of several studies exploring a
On December 8, 2014, the portion of Route 17 in Ramsey was named the Staff Sergeant Timothy R. McGill Memorial Highway in honor of a Ramsey High School graduate, Marine Corps veteran, and local firefighter.[26] On May 11, 2015, the portion of Route 17 in Waldwick was named the Christopher Goodell Memorial Highway in honor of a Waldwick police officer who died when he was struck by a tractor trailer on the highway in July 2014.[27]
Exit list
The entire route is in Bergen County. All exits are unnumbered.
Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes | |
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North Arlington | 0.00 | 0.00 | Route 7 / CR 507 (Belleville Turnpike) – Jersey City, Belleville, Harrison | Southern terminus | |
Lyndhurst | 3.71 | 5.97 | Service Road | Interchange; no southbound exit | |
Rutherford | 4.00 | 6.44 | Route 3 – New York | Interchange | |
4.23 | 6.81 | Service Road / Local Streets | Interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance | ||
East Rutherford | 5.76 | 9.27 | Route 120 south (Paterson Plank Road) – Sports Complex | Interchange; northern end of Route 120 | |
CR 36 | |||||
Hasbrouck Heights | 8.44 | 13.58 | Southern end of limited-access section | ||
George Washington Bridge | |||||
Hasbrouck Heights–Hackensack line | 8.76– 9.13 | 14.10– 14.69 | I-80 east / Terrace Avenue / Polifly Road – Hackensack | Exit 64B on I-80 | |
US 46 west – Hackensack, Hasbrouck Heights | Hackensack signed northbound, Hasbrouck Heights signed southbound | ||||
Lodi | 9.91 | 15.95 | I-80 west to G.S. Parkway | Exit 64A on I-80; northbound exit and southbound entrance | |
10.19 | 16.40 | Essex Street ( | |||
CR 62) – Rochelle Park, Maywood | Northbound exit and southbound entrance | ||||
CR 61) – Rochelle Park, Paramus | |||||
12.30– 12.33 | 19.79– 19.84 | Route 4 to G.S. Parkway south / Ikea Drive – Paterson, Fort Lee, New York City, Garden State Plaza | |||
12.88 | 20.73 | Century Road – Fair Lawn, River Edge | |||
13.59 | 21.87 | G.S. Parkway | Same-directional access only; exit 163 on G.S. Parkway | ||
14.33 | 23.06 | Midland Avenue – Glen Rock, River Edge | |||
15.00 | 24.14 | Sears Drive – Paramus Park | Northbound exit and entrance | ||
15.07 | 24.25 | A&S Drive – Paramus Park | |||
15.80 | 25.43 | Ridgewood Avenue ( | Access to Fashion Center | ||
CR 110) – Ridgewood | |||||
Van Emburgh Avenue ( | Northbound exit and entrance | ||||
16.88 | 27.17 | Paramus Road / East Saddle River Road ( CR 62) – Ridgewood, Saddle River | |||
17.54 | 28.23 | Bus Terminal | Southbound exit and entrance | ||
Right-in/right-out interchange | |||||
18.33 | 29.50 | Hollywood Avenue (CR 502) – Ho-Ho-Kus | |||
Saddle River not signed southbound | |||||
CR 90 | |||||
Ramsey | 22.56 | 36.31 | Upper Saddle River | ||
Lake Street ( CR 81) – Ramsey | |||||
23.55 | 37.90 | Franklin Turnpike (CR 507) – Ramsey, Suffern | Ramsey not signed northbound | ||
23.91 | 38.48 | Spring Street – Ramsey Route 17 station | |||
CR 85 ) / North Central Avenue / MacArthur Boulevard | |||||
25.55 | 41.12 | West Ramapo Avenue ( CR 100) – Mahwah, Pompton Lakes | |||
26.01 | 41.86 | US 202 – Morristown, Suffern | |||
26.40 | 42.49 | Mountainside Avenue / Crossroads Boulevard / Sharp Plaza | |||
Jaguar Land Rover Way | Northbound exit only; signed for local traffic only; serves Jaguar Land Rover North American Headquarters | ||||
26.65– 26.81 | 42.89– 43.15 | I-287 south – Morristown | Southern terminus of concurrency with I-287; exit 66 on I-287 | ||
27.20 | 43.77 | Continuation into New York | |||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
- U.S. Roads portal
- New Jersey portal
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Route 17 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Google (December 26, 2008). "overview of New Jersey Route 17" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved December 26, 2008.
- ^ a b "Governor Corzine announces congestion relief on Route 17". New Jersey Department of Transportation. January 14, 2008. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
- ^ Rand Mcnally And Company. . [New York?: Rand McNally & Co. ; Newark, N.J.: Berwick Hotel distributor, ?, 1920] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/88695915/>.
- ^ a b State of New Jersey, Laws of 1923, Chapters 5, 177, 181, 183, 184.
- ^ Map of New Jersey (Map). Tydol Trails. 1927. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
- ^ a b State of New Jersey, Laws of 1927, Chapter 319.
- ^ New York Times. March 20, 1942.
- ^ 1927 New Jersey Road Map (Map). State of New Jersey. Archived from the original on October 31, 2007. Retrieved October 8, 2008.
- ^ Map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (Map). Mid-West Map Co. 1937. Retrieved March 29, 2009.
- ^ State of New Jersey, Laws of 1938, Chapter 269.
- ^ "Expressway Plans". Regional Plan Association News. May 1964.
- ^ Master Plan for Transportation. New Jersey Department of Transportation. 1972.
- ^ Turnpike Widening: Final Environmental Impact Statement. New Jersey Turnpike Authority. 1987.
- ^ "Route 17 Straight Line Diagram" (PDF). Internet Archives WayBack Machine. New Jersey Department of Transportation. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 12, 2006. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ^ "Missing Link of Interstate Opens, Despite Lawsuit". The New York Times. November 20, 1993. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
- ^ "Governor Cuts Ribbon for Route 4 and 17 Interchange". New Jersey Department of Transportation. November 24, 1999. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
- ^ "Route 17/Essex Street Interchange Improvements Overview". New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved December 30, 2008.
- The Record.
- ^ STV Group (September 2006). Final Report (PDF). Route 17 Bergen Rapid Transit Study (Report). Retrieved April 20, 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Northeast New Jersey Metro Mobility Study". NJT, NJTPA, Coach USA. 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
- ^ FY 2012 TRANSPORTATION CAPITAL PROGRAM: New Jersey Department of Transportation Projects
- ^ Parsons Brinkerhoff. "Vision Bergen: Blueprint For Our Future Networking Transportation To Make It Work Route 17" (PDF). Bergen Rapid Transit Study. Bergen County. Retrieved March 3, 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Ensslin, John (October 11, 2011), "NJ Transit wants to explore bus only lanes and traffic lights in Bergen County", The Record, retrieved May 5, 2012
- ^ Department of Planning & Economic Development, Clarification BRTrfp, Bergen County, New Jersey, archived from the original on March 23, 2012, retrieved May 5, 2012
- ^ "Cardinale Bill Renaming Portion of Route 17 as "Staff Sergeant Timothy R. McGill Memorial Highway" Advanced". New Jersey Senate. December 8, 2014. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
- ^ Ma, Myles (May 12, 2015). "Route 17 in Waldwick renamed for slain officer Christopher Goodell". nj.com. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
External links
- nycroads.com - NJ 17 Freeway
- Speed Limits for Route 17
- See the last of NJ Route 17's deco highway architecture, the bridge at Mahwah