This SB sign gantry is now the ¾ mile advance BGS for US 130 and NJ 171, but when I drove this way in early June 2003, it hadn't gone up yet.


Notice that everything relating to NJ 171 has been taped over. That ramp took awhile to open, as the US 130 NB-NJ 171 NB overpass of US 1 was one of the last pieces to be constructed. Since the SB US 1-SB US 130 ramp opened fairly early though, due to its importance, the BGS's went up anyway.


The only truly old BGS on non-multiplexed US 1 that I know of, this SB signage was replaced with the opening of the new US 1/130 interchange (it replaced a traffic circle, and you can guess how badly this was needed).


More taped-over pieces of BGS, and on the SB ramp you see that only one lane is open for US 130 (and zero are open to NJ 171) in summer 2003.


Two views of the under-construction interchange. Old roadways were taken out before new ones were put in for the less important movements, so almost everything you see is new construction, again as of summer 2003. It's all done as of a year later.


Courtesy Lou Corsaro, this is a new jughandle for CR 522 on the SB side of US 1 to the EB side of 522. The current jug has been kept for SB-WB right-turning traffic only. Backups trying to turn left are probably what sparked the new loop.

US 1 is an arrow-straight expressway/Jersey freeway south of New Brunswick. Intersections are gradually being replaced by interchanges over the length, so hopefully one day soon US 1 will be unquestionably the best route for traffic trying to follow the aborted Somerset Freeway (I-95 between Trenton and New Brunswick).


The little town of Penns Neck interrupts the smooth flow of US 1; plans exist for a bypass (which I'm guessing goes just to the west, since the town lies entirely to the east), but I haven't seen them so I can't comment. Curiously, most of the CR 526 signage at the CR 571 intersection is tacked on as county shields atop 571 LGS's, but these two old signs are paired. Silly NJDOT.


Unless otherwise mentioned, the last three sets of signage were on US 1 SB; the last two photos are on the SB C-D (collector-distributor) road, except for of course the I-95/I-295 BGS overhanging the main lanes.


As the last picture shows, on the ramp from US 1 SB, I-95 gets the lion's share of lanes at its fourth NJ terminus (the other three being at borders; see the I-95 page for details), where I-295 also ends. Presumably traffic avoiding the NJ Turnpike is going to avoid the toll to leave NJ as well and take the free Scudders Falls bridge. Notice how everything goes south from this point; once I-95 is rerouted with the construction of the I-95/I-276 interchange in PA, I-295 will probably be signed E-W along I-95's current N-S route, and only turn N-S after crossing into PA, to avoid the dilemma of two SB I-295's (or the dilemma of an NB road suddenly becoming SB... oh wait a minute, that already happens). In late 2007, this exit was reconfigured so that the two I-95 lanes now leave first, and the I-295 exit (to the C-D road, which takes the entrance from I-295 NB) comes further south. I'm not a fan; now the I-295 exit has a merge just after it leaves US 1, and there is no way to sign that without confusing drivers and creating danger at the merge point.


A lot of warnings for exits ahead - gee, not like there's anything important in Trenton like, say, a state government. This is the first half of the Trenton Freeway (go to the NB side for more on that). Business US 1 runs toward US 206 and then splits, with the official route going back into US 1 and the signed route running across the old Trenton Makes bridge (largely multiplexed with US 206 through Trenton). The signed route was part of Alternate US 1 (so yes, both Alternate and Business signage existed for quite some time, not to confuse anyone), but PA has completely decommissioned its side of ALT US 1, and has yet to sign the unofficial Business US 1 in its stead. Market St. is also NJ 33, and the state highway should get the billing.


Finishing up the Trenton Freeway. NJ 129 takes you to NJ 29. Warren Street is part of the signed Business US 1 route, but even the older signs on the highway fail to acknowledge either Business or Alternate US 1.

Northward to US 1-9 SB
Over to the NB lanes
General US 1 photos
Northward to US 1-9 main page
Back to US 1 main page

Follow US 1 into PA
Onto US 130
Onto NJ 171
Onto NJ 26
Onto NJ 91
Onto CR 522
Onto CR 52 6
Onto CR 571
Onto CR 533
Onto I-295
Onto I-95
Onto NJ 33
Onto NJ 129
To I-195
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