New Jersey has jumped the gun a little bit here. Right now, there is a free I-95 around Trenton, which is the northern continuation of the Interstate from Florida. The mainline of the Turnpike north of Trenton is the southern continuation of the Interstate from Maine. The twain don't meet at the moment, on which I've gone into great detail many times on my website. Suffice to say, once the Somerset Freeway was cancelled, I-95 was extended down the Turnpike to Exit 6, and then NJ figured, what the heck, let's replace 700P as well. That strategy is paying off now because the I-276/PA I-95 interchange is due to be completed in 2012, at which point New Jersey will be able to actually sign the highway featured on this page with the number it already has. It will also mean the end of discontiguous I-95.


These gantries are original to the Turnpike's opening, and the signs are backlit at night. They are on the Extension EB, or I-95 NB, as it nears the mainline Turnpike. It's interesting that Camden is chosen as a control city, because the Turnpike doesn't directly serve Camden - Delaware would be a better complement to New York.


This skimpy shield points down what is officially Exit 6A but is only shown as Exit on all signs. Exit 6A used to be an eastbound offramp for US 130 from Pennsylvania, but the interchange was rebuilt to allow access to and from both directions of the Extension. Traffic to and from the east stops at the Exit 6 tollbooth (booths, not ramps, have the numbers), and traffic heading into PA pays double so that eastbound traffic out of PA can use the exit for free. It actually pays better, even for Florence residents who get an Exit 6A discount, to use Exit 7 (US 206) to head into PA, and obviously it pays trucks from PA to exit onto 130 if they're local. I guess the ramps have such little traffic that the additional tollbooth would not have paid for itself.


Crossing impressively into Pennsylvania.

Southward onto the NJ Turnpike, NJ 700
Northward onto the NJ Turnpike, I-95
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West into PA on I-276
To I-295
The NJ Turnpike Pennsylvania Extension on Steve Anderson's phillyroads.com
The Delaware River bridge on phillyroads.com
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