U.S. Route 40 in New Jersey
Route map:
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| East end | Atlantic Avenue / Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City | |
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| Country | United States | |
| State | New Jersey | |
| Counties | Salem, Gloucester, Atlantic | |
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U.S. Route 40 (US 40) is a
Interstate 295 (I-295), east to Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Avenue in Atlantic City, Atlantic County. The route passes through Salem, Gloucester, and Atlantic counties as well as the boroughs of Woodstown, Elmer, Newfield, and Buena
. The route encounters a mix of rural, suburban, and urban environs throughout its journey across South Jersey.
In 1923,
freeway
was once planned along the US 40 corridor in the 1980s to alleviate traffic, but it was never built after it was deemed the traffic volume was not high enough for it to be constructed.
Route description
Salem County
divided highway maintained by the New Jersey Department of Transportation called Wiley Road that runs a short distance south of the New Jersey Turnpike, containing a wide median.[1][2] It continues into rural areas consisting of woods, farms, and residences, heading farther to the south of the New Jersey Turnpike.[2]
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Upon meeting the eastern terminus of
Gloucester and Atlantic counties
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Immediately after CR 557 joins US 40, the road enters
CR 617 to the east.[1][2] A short distance later, the road meets CR 559 and US 40 splits from Route 50 by turning east onto that route.[1] This intersection marks the beginning of CR 559 Truck northbound.[2] The road passes more development before CR 559 splits from the road by heading southeast. US 40 heads east out of Mays Landing, where it continues through woodland and increasing residential development. The road widens into four lanes as it comes to US 322 (Black Horse Pike) near the Hamilton Mall.[1][2] At this point, US 40 forms a concurrency with US 322, which lasts for the remainder of the route.[1]
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The two routes continue to the southeast through business areas, meeting
CR 651 before entering Pleasantville. In Pleasantville, the road crosses US 9. Past this intersection, the roadway passes under the Somers Point Bike Path. Upon crossing CR 585, the Black Horse Pike continues past residences as an undivided road, crossing back into Egg Harbor Township. The road passes more businesses, closely paralleling the Atlantic City Expressway before entering Atlantic City. Here, the name becomes Albany Avenue and it comes to a pair of ramps that provide access to and from the Black Horse Pike eastbound and the Atlantic City Expressway westbound.[1][2] US 40/US 322 enters marshland, crossing the Great Thorofare onto Great Island, where it has an interchange providing access to Atlantic City High School that also has U-turn ramps, before passing over the Beach Thorofare. Past this bridge, the road passes between businesses to the west and the closed Bader Field airport and Surf Stadium to the east.[2] US 40/US 322 crosses the Inside Thorofare on a drawbridge and continues as a county maintained road to its end at Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Avenue, one block from the boardwalk.[1][2] Through New Jersey, US 40 serves as a main road connecting Atlantic City with points south along Interstate 95, such as Baltimore and Washington, D.C.[5]
History
Board of Freeholders authorized the construction of a toll-free highway from Pleasantville to Albany Avenue in Atlantic City, which was completed in 1905.[7] The entire route of modern US 40 was signed as the Powder Way, running from the ferry at Penn's Grove to Atlantic City.[8]
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In 1923,
U.S. Highway System was established in 1926, the alignment of US 40 in New Jersey ran from Penns Grove, where a ferry carried the route across the Delaware River to Wilmington, Delaware, east to Atlantic City along pre-1927 Route 18S.[10][11] In the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering that occurred a year later, pre-1927 Route 18S was replaced by Route 48.[12][13] In 1936, US 322 was also signed concurrent with US 40 on the Black Horse Pike.[14] The portion of US 40/US 322 that existed in Atlantic City was legislated as Route 55 in 1938.[15] Also by 1938, US 40 was moved to a ferry that ran across the Delaware River between Pennsville and New Castle, Delaware, following current Route 49, local roads, and CR 551 to travel between the ferry and Route 48.[16] Following the completion of the Delaware Memorial Bridge and the New Jersey Turnpike in 1951, US 40 was moved to the new bridge and routed to follow a small portion of the New Jersey Turnpike and Wiley Road to the current eastern terminus of Route 48.[17] In the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, which eliminated concurrencies between U.S. highways and state routes, Route 48 was removed from the portion of US 40 east of its current eastern terminus and the Route 55 designation was dropped entirely.[18][19]
In the 1980s, Congressman
Cardiff Circle along US 40/US 322 at CR 563 and CR 608 in Egg Harbor Township was eliminated in a $3.7 million project completed in 2002.[22]
In 2013, the road was one of three that tied for the #1 ranking on the Tri-State Transportation Campaign's list of the top ten most dangerous roads for pedestrians in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. The route, along with
Burlington County and US 1 in Middlesex County, were so ranked due to the nine pedestrian deaths that occurred on each of those roads from 2009 to 2011.[23]
Due to frequent flooding in Atlantic County, NJDOT announced in 2019 a plan to reconstruct and raise a one-mile portion of the roadway from Naples Avenue to Bayport Drive in Egg Harbor Township by 2.5 ft (0.76 m). The $27.5 million project is scheduled to begin in 2022 and completed in 2025.[24]
Major intersections
| County | Location | mi[1] | km | Destinations | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
I-95 – Delaware | Delaware state line | ||||
| Delaware Memorial Bridge (westbound toll in Delaware) | |||||
| begins | East end of I-295 overlap; west end of NJTP overlap; I-295 exit 1 | ||||
| Carneys Point Township | 1.70 | 2.74 |    N.J. Turnpike north – New York City | East end of NJTP overlap | |
| Eastern end of freeway section | |||||
| 1.85 | 2.98 |     Route 140 west / CR 540 (Hawks Bridge Road) | Access to Memorial Hospital of Salem County | ||
| 5.43 | 8.74 |  Route 48 west – Penns Grove | |||
| Pilesgrove Township | 10.02 | 16.13 |   Route 45 south (Salem-Woodstown Road) – Salem | West end of Route 45 overlap | |
| Woodstown | 10.67 | 17.17 |  Route 45 north (North Main Street) – Mullica Hill | East end of Route 45 overlap | |
Alloway | |||||
| 16.52 | 26.59 |  Pole Tavern Circle | |||
| 21.82 | 35.12 |  CR 553 (Buck Road) – Glassboro, Centerton, Parvin State Park | |||
| Gloucester | Franklin Township | 25.54 | 41.10 |  Route 55 – Glassboro, Bellmawr, Vineland, Millville, Cape May | Route 55 exit 39 |
| 26.71 | 42.99 |  Route 47 south (Delsea Drive) – Vineland | West end of Route 47 overlap | ||
| 27.21 | 43.79 | Route 47 north (Delsea Drive) – Camden | East end of Route 47 overlap | ||
| 30.25 | 48.68 |  CR 555 (Main Road) – Williamstown, Vineland | |||
| 32.71 | 52.64 |   Cross Keys | West end of CR 557 overlap | ||
| Atlantic | Buena–Buena Vista Township line | 35.17 | 56.60 |    Route 54 north (Blue Anchor Road) to A.C. Expressway – Hammonton | |
| Buena Vista Township | 35.30 | 56.81 |  CR 557 south (Buena-Tuckahoe Road) – Milmay, Tuckahoe, Cape May | East end of CR 557 overlap, west end of CR 557 Truck overlap | |
| 38.23 | 61.53 |  CR 540 west (Cedar Avenue) – Vineland, Salem | |||
| Hamilton Township | 45.21 | 72.76 |  CR 552 west (Millville Road) – Milmay, Vineland, Millville | ||
| 45.62 | 73.42 |     CR 606 east (Old Harding Highway) | West end of CR 559 Truck overlap | ||
| 46.39 | 74.66 |  | East end of CR 557 Truck overlap, west end of NJ 50 overlap | ||
| 46.82 | 75.35 |  CR 617 east (Somers Point-Mays Landing Road) | East end of CR 559 Truck southbound overlap | ||
| 47.01 | 75.66 |  Route 50 north (Cape May Avenue) to A.C. Expressway west CR 559 north (Main Street) | East end of Route 50/CR 559 Truck northbound overlap, west end of CR 559 overlap | ||
| 47.34 | 76.19 | CR 559 south (Somers Point Road) – Ocean City, Somers Point | East end of CR 559 overlap | ||
| 51.77 | 83.32 |  US 322 west (Black Horse Pike) – Camden | West end of US 322 overlap | ||
| 51.97 | 83.64 |  CR 575 north (Wrangleboro Road) to A.C. Expressway – Pomona | West end of CR 575 overlap | ||
| Egg Harbor Township | 53.89 | 86.73 | CR 575 south (English Creek Avenue) – English Creek | East end of CR 575 overlap | |
| 56.98 | 91.70 |  CR 563 north (Tilton Road) | West end of CR 563 overlap | ||
| 57.38 | 92.34 | CR 563 south (Tilton Road) – Margate City, Ocean City | East end of CR 563 overlap | ||
| 57.46 | 92.47 |   G.S. Parkway north to A.C. Expressway | GSP exit 36 | ||
| Pleasantville | 59.13 | 95.16 |  US 9 – Absecon, Somers Point | ||
| 59.50 | 95.76 |  CR 585 (Main Street) | |||
| Atlantic City | 61.99– 62.17 | 99.76– 100.05 | A.C. Expressway west – Philadelphia | ACE exit 2; access from westbound US 40/US 322 to westbound ACE and from eastbound ACE to eastbound US 40/US 322 | |
| 62.69 | 100.89 | Atlantic City High School To A.C. Expressway west | Interchange with U-turn ramps; ACE signed on eastbound U-turn ramp | ||
| 64.32 | 103.51 | Atlantic Avenue / Pacific Avenue – Midtown, Uptown, Marina | Eastern terminus of US 40/US 322 | ||
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 u v w x y "US 40 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 m n o p q r s t u v Google (October 21, 2009). "overview of U.S. Route 40 in New Jersey" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ a b "I-295 Straight Line Diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ "New Jersey Turnpike Straight Line Diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- Tropicana Casino and Resort Atlantic City. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ "Answer Guy: How did the White Horse and Black Horse Pikes get their names?". The Press of Atlantic City. August 31, 2008.
- ^ New Jersey Historic Bridge Survey (PDF). A. G. Lichtenstein & Associates (Report). New Jersey Department of Transportation. September 1994. pp. 89–90. Retrieved July 16, 2018.
- ^ Rand McNally and Co. "Eastern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, South East Michigan, Southern Ontario, Western New York: District No. 4". Rand McNally Official Auto Trails Map, 3rd ed., 1924, pp. 168-169. David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, David Rumsey (curator), Cartography Associates, Accessed Nov 4, 2019, www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~201570~3000600:Auto-Trails-Map--Pennsylvania,-New-.
- ^ Williams, Jimmy and Sharon. "NJ 1920s Route 18-S". 1920s New Jersey Highways. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
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- ^ Williams, Jimmy and Sharon. "1927 Tydol Trails Map – South". 1920s New Jersey Highways. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2009.
- ^ State of New Jersey, Laws of 1927, Chapter 319.
- ^ Williams, Jimmy and Sharon. "1927 New Jersey Road Map". 1920s New Jersey Highways. Archived from the original on October 31, 2007. Retrieved October 8, 2008.
- ^ "US 322 Straight Line Diagram" (PDF). Internet Archives WayBack Machine. New Jersey Department of Transportation. 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2004. Retrieved June 14, 2007.
- ^ State of New Jersey, Laws of 1938, Chapter 283.
- ^ Nitzman, Alex. "1938 Delaware Road Map". AARoads. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
- ^ Nitzman, Alex. "1951 Delaware Road Map". AARoads. Retrieved March 30, 2009.
- ^ 1953 renumbering, New Jersey Department of Highways, archived from the original on June 28, 2011, retrieved July 31, 2009
- ^ "New Road Signs Ready in New Jersey". The New York Times. December 16, 1952. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
- ^ Sardella, Carlos M. (June 26, 1983). "Hughes Presses for New Route". The New York Times.
- ^ "Jersey To Review Need for Highway". The New York Times. November 4, 1984.
- ^ "Temporary detour of traffic at the Cardiff Circle to begin Friday evening, May 3". New Jersey Department of Transportation. May 1, 2002. Retrieved October 21, 2009.
- ^ Zeitlinger, Ron; Machcinski, Anthony J. (March 1, 2013). "6th and 10th Most Fatalities". The Jersey Journal: 5.
- ^ Avalon Zoppo (May 19, 2019). "DOT shares plan to ease flooding on Route 40, one of AC's main evacuation routes". Press of Atlantic City. Retrieved July 1, 2019.
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