SB 2 miles from Exit 13, this is the last BGS for I-278 with button copy - even in the shield!


The second photo is over the truck lanes, because the car lanes have new exit BGS's, and if you click on the third photo you'll get a car-lane closeup of the gore BGS. These are all SB, ending in a rare black-background shield - although the rest of NJ loves those squares, the Turnpike never embraced them, as you can see from the rest of the signage on this page.


The SB counterpart to the Grover Cleveland service area. The only service area accessible to both sides is the Vince Lombardi, which is covered on the pages for the Eastern and Western Spurs and northern I-95.


An old all-text sign on the Turnpike SB, replaced by now (but the new signs don't have Parkway shields either - curious, since the Turnpike Authority has merged with the Highway Authority). Courtesy HNTB.


Because I-95 was supposed to arrive here on what is now I-287, I-287 ends on top of the Turnpike and turns into NJ 440. Signs taken SB, with the last ones in the car and mixed lanes, respectively.


Second photo courtesy HNTB, and the button-copy signage over the car lanes no longer exists. In the last photo, the two-lane truck lanes between Exits 9 and 8A are about finished being widened to three lanes (in each direction, even) as of 2007. This will only help when the 6-to-8A Widening project gets underway and is completed, finally tying six lanes of traffic in each direction into six lanes of highway in each direction.


The second photo is again courtesy HNTB. The NJ 33 BGS (Exit 8) is odd in that it is quite new yet does not have a 33 shield. Maybe this sign is meant to be changed to NJ 133 eventually - there is an interchange under consideration with the new four-lane northern bypass of Hightstown, which NJTP traffic can only access currently by following NJ 33 East to 133 West. Exit 8A leads to NJ 32, which is a very short arterial connector to US 130. It was considered for the NJ 92 relief connector to US 1 before the widening was re-prioritized.


The beams holding this bridge up once were straight. I can't believe this overpass is allowed to remain open (along with the highway beneath it), but it will disappear as soon as the Turnpike is widened.


These are all a bunch of SB BGS's; click on the 1¼-mile Exit 6 advance for the old all-text version, courtesy HNTB. The last picture is the famous 1956 green gantry spanning three lanes of NJ 700 and three lanes of I-95, larger than its counterparts on the Pennsylvania Extension EB (see link below). At night, the sign is bottom-lit, but since it's non-reflective and non-button copy, picture-taking must be absolutely still. This, as I mentioned, is where I-95 now swings westward toward PA. Until I-95 in PA can connect with the PA Turnpike, though, this will still be signed with a TO I-276 (which should have an arrow bent 45 degrees to the right, not straight ahead). It would alleviate traffic greatly if the car/truck setup of the Turnpike were extended down to Exit 6 - having ten or twelve lanes between two sets of ten- or twelve-lane highway, instead of only six, would be a boon on Friday evenings in particular. Final note: button copy increases in frequency as one travels southward on the Turnpike.

To free I-95 around Trenton
South on the Turnpike, NJ 700
Exit 6 to the Pennsylvania Extension, I-95
North on the Eastern Spur
North on the Western Spur
Back to NJ Turnpike and I-95 together
Over to the NB lanes
Back to I-95/NJ Turnpike main page

Exit 13 to I-278
Exit 11 to US 9
Exit 11 to the Garden State Parkway
Exit 10 or 11 to I-287
Exit 10 or 11 to NJ 440
Exit 9 to US 1
Exit 9 to NJ 18
Exit 8A to NJ 32
Exit 8 to NJ 33
Exit 7A to I-195
Exit 7 to US 206
Exit 6 to US 130
Exit 6 to I-276 in PA
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