Are There Cameras Recording Traffic On The New Jersey Toll Plaza At The Holland Tunnell


	This 2002 photo shows the New Jersey Turnpike-Newark Bay Extension (I-78) approaching its eastern terminus in Jersey City. I-78 continues into Manhattan via the Kingdom of the netherlands Tunnel. (Photograph by Jim 1000. Georges.)


	"If you like the mix of grim and hopeful, the Newark Bay Extension takes you past erstwhile cemeteries, a small mount of rusted car hulks, and the back of the Statue of Liberty." - Jeffrey Page, writing in The Bergen Record


	RELIEVING THE HOLLAND TUNNEL BOTTLENECK: When the Holland Tunnel was completed in 1927 and the Pulaski Skyway opened 5 years later, both provided modern, four-lane access between New York, Bailiwick of jersey City and Newark. Motorists were now able to travel from downtown Manhattan to Newark Aerodrome in 20 minutes. By the 1950's, congestion along this road doubled the required commute time. In addition, because of its narrow four-lane, 40-foot-wide roadway, the skyway was closed to commercial vehicles. These factors necessitated construction of a new highway.

In 1954, the New Jersey Turnpike Say-so began construction of an 8.2-mile-long turnpike spur from Go out 14 (Newark Drome) to the Holland Tunnel toll plaza in Bailiwick of jersey City. At a cost of $120 million, or approximately $14.six million per mile, the Newark Bay-Hudson Canton Extension was the near expensive price highway to date. The Newark Bay Extension was to accept interchanges in Bayonne, in Jersey City, and at the The netherlands Tunnel.

The high cost of the turnpike extension stemmed from the complex construction that was required. Starting at the turnpike mainline and standing e into Bayonne, a $40 million, 9,560-pes-long steel-arch span with a principal span of ane,270 anxiety was constructed, carrying the turnpike over Newark Bay. Much of the route had to be elevated over four railroad lines, then sunk to dip down nether a fifth railroad line. Several long truss spans were synthetic to bear the roadway without interruption over local streets. Finally, the turnpike extension sliced through office of an Army base, requiring the structure and reconstruction of buildings and utilities to insure uninterrupted apply by the military.

Part of the Newark Bay Extension between the turnpike mainline and EXIT 14A in Bayonne opened in April 1956. The entire turnpike extension was opened to traffic on September 15, 1956. Shortly thereafter, the Newark Bay Extension was designated as part of Interstate 78, a highway that would non be completed through New Jersey and Pennsylvania until 1989. (Before its designation as an Interstate highway, the New Jersey State Highway Section designated the extension NJ 700N, using the suffix "Due north" to denote the Newark Bay Extension.

The Newark Bay Extension originally had two service areas, 1 each for the eastbound and westbound lanes, near Go out 14A in Bayonne. These areas accept since been closed.

In 1995, the span over Newark Bay was officially renamed the Vincent R. Casciano Bridge. Equally a member of the New Bailiwick of jersey Country Assembly representing Bayonne, Casciano petitioned land officials and the New Bailiwick of jersey Turnpike Authorization for the Newark Bay Extension in the early 1950'southward.


	Co-ordinate to the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), the Newark Bay Extension handles approximately 65,000 vehicles per day (AADT). The Turnpike Authority has recently embarked on a program of rehabilitating bridge decks and widening shoulders along the length of the extension. WHAT HAPPENS TO I-78 AT THE Terminate OF THE TURNPIKE? From the terminus of the turnpike extension e to the Holland Tunnel, I-78 runs forth 12th Street (eastbound) and 14th Street (westbound) through Bailiwick of jersey City. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the NJDOT nevertheless refer to these arterial streets equally part of I-78, despite the at-form intersections and traffic lights. The NJDOT also uses the NJ 139 designation along this section, seemingly in the upshot that the NJDOT truncated the I-78 designation at the eastern terminus of the turnpike extension. (The I-78 designation actually continues through the Holland Tunnel into Lower Manhattan.)


	EXTENSION TO HOBOKEN AND FORT LEE? Kickoff in the tardily 1950's, and standing through the mid-1970's, the state of New Jersey planned to construct a due north-southward expressway to connect the Newark Bay Extension with the Lincoln Tunnel Approach (NJ 495). The NJ 85 Freeway projection, which would accept creating another bypass road betwixt Jersey City and Fort Lee, never made it past the design stages.


	These 2002 photos bear witness the westbound New Jersey Turnpike-Newark Bay Extension (I-78) simply west of EXIT 14C (Bailiwick of jersey Metropolis, left photo) and at EXIT 14A (Bayonne, right photo). (Photos by Jim Chiliad. Georges.)


	A Directly CONNECTION TO THE Kingdom of the netherlands TUNNEL: Finally, a controlled-access connection should be synthetic betwixt the eastern terminus of the Newark Bay Extension (I-78) and the Holland Tunnel toll plaza. Currently, traffic between these routes must travel on signalized streets: eastbound traffic on 12th Street, westbound traffic on 14th Street. Overpasses should be constructed for cantankerous traffic.

SOURCES: "High Road from the Hudson to the Delaware" past Paul J. C. Friedlander, The New York Times (eleven/25/1951); "Built for Safety" past Armand Schwab, Jr., The New York Times (11/25/1951); "From Maine to Chicago Without a Traffic Light," The New York Times (11/25/1951); "Jersey Thruway Spur Will Open Today," The New York Times (4/04/1956); "Bypass in Bayonne" by Joseph C. Ingraham, The New York Times (nine/09/1956); "Interesting Facts About the New Jersey Turnpike," New Bailiwick of jersey Turnpike Say-so (1956); Transportation 1985: A Regional Program , Tri-State Transportation Commission (1966); Looking for America on the New Bailiwick of jersey Turnpike by Angus Kress Gillespie and Michael Aaron Rockland, Rutgers Academy Press (1989); "Sights, Sounds of a Turnpike Always in Motion" past Jeffrey Page, The Bergen Tape (six/20/1999); "Welcome to the New Jersey Turnpike," New Jersey Turnpike Authority (1999); New Bailiwick of jersey Department of Transportation; Phil Case; Frank Curcio; Larry Lucchetti; Raymond C. Martin; Christopher One thousand. Bricklayer; Dan Moraseski; Mike Natale; William F. Yurasko.

I-78 and NJ 85 shields by Ralph Herman.

New Jersey Turnpike shield by New Bailiwick of jersey Turnpike Authority.

Lightpost past Millerbernd Manufacturing Company.

NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE -- NEWARK BAY EXTENSION Electric current Weather condition:

Eastbound and Westbound (Traffic.com)

Alive Traffic Cams

OFF-SITE EXIT LISTINGS:

New Jersey Turnpike-Newark Bay Extension and I-78 (New Bailiwick of jersey) exit list by Ray Martin.


	Newark Bay Bridge (I-78) Holland Tunnel (I-78)


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