1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering

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On January 1, 1953, the New Jersey Highway Department renumbered many of the State Routes. This renumbering was first proposed in 1951 in order to reduce confusion to motorists.^[1] A few rules were followed in deciding what to renumber:^[2]

• No state route and U.S. Route could have the same number; this eliminated 1 (which was also eliminated by other criteria), 22, 30, 40 and 46. While Route 1 was broken into several pieces, the other four were renumbered as Routes 59, 69, 70 and 77, respectively. Route 69 later became Route 31 after frequent theft of road signs due to the sexual connotation of the number.


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  Concurrencies were highly discouraged; this included U.S. Routes and meant that U.S. Route numbers would now be referred to directly by NJDOT.


• No State Route could have a lettered prefix or suffix.


• A State Route that ended at a state border was renumbered to match the number assigned by the adjacent state.


• The New Jersey Turnpike, Garden State Parkway, and Palisades Interstate Parkway were not to have route numbers.

New numbers assigned semi-arbitrarily included 15 and 20 (13-20 were not assigned in the 1927 renumbering), the sequence from 57 to 93, and 152 to 165 for minor routes (continuing from pre-renumbering 151).^[3]

New Route	From	To	Old Designation	Modern Designation	Notes
US-1	Trenton	Fort Lee	26, S26, 25, 1, 6
US-1/9 Truck	Newark	Jersey City	25T
US-1 Business	Jersey City	New York City	25	139
NJ- 3	North Bergen	Clifton	S3, 3
NJ-4	Fort Lee	Paterson	4
NJ-5	Ridgefield	Edgewater	5
NJ-7	Jersey City	Nutley	7
US-9	Cape May	Fort Lee	4, 35, 25
US-9W	Fort Lee	Alpine	1
NJ-10	Ledgewood	West Orange	10
NJ-12	Frenchtown	Flemington	12
NJ-13	Bay Head	Point Pleasant	13E
NJ-15	Dover	Ross' Corner	6A	15, 181
NJ-17	North Arlington	Mahwah	17
NJ-18	Middlesex	Matawan	S28
NJ-20	Paterson	Hawthorne	3	20
NJ-21	Newark	Belleville	21
US-22	Philipsburg	Newark	28, 29	US-22, 173
NJ-23	Montague Township	Verona	23
NJ-24	Philipsburg	Maplewood	24	57, Penwell Road, Pleasant Grove Road, CR 517, CR 513, CR 510, 124
NJ-26	North Brunswick	New Brunswick	26
NJ-27	Princeton	Newark	27
NJ-28	Branchburg	Elizabeth	28
NJ-29	Trenton	Frenchtown	29, 29A
US-30	Camden	Atlantic City	25, 45, 43, 56
NJ-33	Trenton	Ocean Grove	33
NJ-34	Brielle	Cheesequake	34, 4A
NJ-35	Seaside Heights	Rahway	37, 35, 4
NJ-36	Keyport	Eatontown	36, Ocean Ave, Joline Ave
NJ-37	Lakehurst	Seaside Heights	37
NJ-38	Pennsauken	Wall Township	38, 35	38, 138
US-40	Pennsville Township	Atlantic City	48
NJ-41	Fairview	Deptford	41
NJ-42	Williamstown	Camden	42
NJ-45	Salem	Westville	45
US-46	Delaware	Fort Lee	6
NJ-47	Wildwood	Brooklawn	S49, 49, 47
NJ-48	Penns Grove	Sharptown	48
NJ-49	Pennsville Township	Tuckahoe	44, 45, 49
NJ-50	Seaville	Egg Harbor City	50
NJ-52	Ocean City	Somer's Point	52
NJ-53	Morris Plains	Denville	5N
NJ-54	Buena Vista	Hammonton	54
NJ-57	Mansfield Township	Hackettstown	S24
NJ-58	Newark	Harrison	25A	I-280
NJ-59	Cranford		22
NJ-62	Totowa	Paterson	S6
NJ-63	North Bergen	Fort Lee	S1
NJ-64	Princeton	Hightstown	31A
NJ-65	Newark		25A	Port Street, Doremus Ave
NJ-66	Shrewsbury Township	Neptune Township	33-35 Connector
NJ-67	Fort Lee		S1A
NJ-68	Mansfield Township	Fort Dix	S39
NJ-69	Trenton	Buttzville	30	31
NJ-70	Pennsauken	Brick Township	40, 34
NJ-71	Eatontown	Brielle	4N
NJ-72	Four Mile	Ship Bottom	S40
NJ-73	Palmyra	Berlin	S41
NJ-77	Bridgeton	Mullica Hill	46
NJ-79	Freehold	Matawan	4A
NJ-82	Springfield Township	Union	S24
NJ-83	South Dennis	Clermont	49
NJ-84	Sussex	Wantage	8N	284
NJ-87	Atlantic City	Brigantine	S4A
NJ-88	Lakewood	Point Pleasant	35, 37
NJ-91	North Brunswick	New Brunswick	26A
NJ-93	Ridgefield	Palisades Park	S5
NJ-94	Delaware	Vernon	8, 31
US-130	Pennsville Township	New Brunswick	44, 45, 25, 25M	US-130, 171
NJ-151	Camden		151	S 10th and 11th St
US-202	Lambertville	Mahwah	S29, 29, 30, 12, 31, 32, 23, Black Oak Ridge Road, 3, Terhune Drive, Ramapo Valley Road
US-206	Hammonton	Montague Township	39, 37, 27, 31, S31
NJ-208	Fair Lawn	Oakland	S4B
NJ-303	Teaneck	Northvale	S4D
US-322	Bridgeport	McKee City	S44, 51, Swedesboro Road, Mullica Hill Road, 47, High St E, Glassboro Road, Sicklerville Road, 42
NJ-413	Burlington		S25
NJ-439	Elizabeth		28, 24, North Ave
NJ-440	Woodbridge	Jersey City	S4, 1		Connected through Staten Island

See also

• 
  U.S. Roads portal
  


• 
  New Jersey portal
  


• 1927 New Jersey State Route renumbering

References

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   ^ "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.
   


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   ^ "1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering".
   

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