west of NJ 159

US 46 WB at the Columbia Bridge (NJ 94), just before the end of 46. US 46 and US 611 (before it became PA 611) have used that bridge in the past - there's a rogue US 611 shield still standing on NJ 94 SB (link at bottom) where it leaves US 46 EB.


NJ 94 SB/US 46 EB. To lend it some legitimacy, US 46 begins as the ramps from I-80 at NJ 94 instead of just beginning here at the bridge. What that means is it shares these photos with NJ 94. And it's not JCT 94 because you're already on it. Remember that rule? Unfortunately, the US 611 shield is just up the ramp to the bridge which puts it on the NJ 94 mainline, so you do have to go to that page to see it.


Speaking of NJ 94, NJ 8 is the pre-renumbering designation for that highway. What happened is that this bridge was built when US 46 crossed the Delaware bridge, the stub of which is now NJ 163. US 46 was later moved to the Columbia and Delaware Water Gap bridges, now NJ 94 and I-80 respectively, and then floodwaters took out the Delaware bridge, but this number testifies that NJ 94 ran a few miles farther south once.


Speaking of NJ 163, this is mile 0 on what was once US 46. As you can see from the name, old US 46 ran next to a railroad straight across the old bridge - the RR bridge was rebuilt after Hurricane Diane in 1955, though.


The Delaware Bridge now, seen from the Pennsylvania side. There's no trace of the stub on the PA side of the river.


EB, with a WB counterpart, in... Warren County.


The oldest bridge on the page perhaps, predating the designations of NJ 6 and 8. NJSHR 5 was the original route from Newark to out here near Delaware Water Gap. These are at Tannery Rd.


Facing east on the original road through this area before 1923. Because US highways were not designated until later in the decade, this isn't really old US 46, but it could be considered old NJSHR 5.

One WB view.


Entering Buttzville; the second and third photos are of Buttzville Rd. Unfortunately, the connection to US 46 has been severed, so I did not get to drive the bridge.


WB at NJ 182, which is a connector to NJ 57 and former NJ 24. It came about because NJ 24 was supposed to end at NJ 57, and NJ 57 was supposed to be continued eastward to the brief divided section of US 46 around Hackettstown. That bypass is very unlikely to be constructed, due to low demand and high cost, but for now NJ 57 and NJ 182 end at each other for no good reason.

US 46 EB/CR 517 SB in Hackettstown (517 then follows 182).


Other direction, same place.


All westbound from NJ 10 toward Netcong. The final photo is just after crossing underneath I-80 past the Lake Hopatcong interchange (which did have a connection to I-80 WB). The fourth photo is as you leave US 46 for CR 631 NB at that interchange.

Haven't seen U-turns signed like this before, EB at the western beginning of NJ 10.


Looking down the hill from Pequannock St. SB to downtown Dover. The detour for US 46, which began life as a 95 shield (I-95? US 95? Who knows?), follows Fairview Ave. to NJ 15 and is really a permanent condition.


WB at the dilapidated NJ 15 NB ramp and then onto the dilapidated bridge over NJ 15 and the adjacent railroad. These are getting replaced and NJ 15 will no longer cross under US 46 to end facing the wrong way, but will instead come to a signal across the railroad and end at a conventional intersection.

WB.


If 5N is the first-generation number for NJ 53 (visit that page, linked at bottom, to understand that reference), then 12 is the 0th-generation number for US 46. In the general Denville area, NJ 5/NJ 12 was a 1910's/1920's multiplex whose route is still largely traceable. East of there, US 46 follows this original NJ 12 routing fairly closely. NJ 12 thus ends up on Bloomfield Avenue here in Montville, where this bridge was among the first New Jersey State Highway Department projects ever (1922 for this one). There are very few relics left from this era with the SHR number stamped in, and this one's gone thanks to New Road construction.


Here's another one, and this time you can even see how old it is. It's at the far eastern end of Bloomfield Ave. in Montville, a short but untraversable distance west of where NJ 159 starts the most important stretch of Bloomfield Ave. (to Bloomfield itself and ultimately Newark). These are the northern side of the bridge.


And the southern side of the bridge. There's no traffic here except to the junkyard at the end of the road, so this bridge may be here for quite awhile yet.


A WB gem under I-287, a RIDOT mistake WB at Beverwyck Rd., and New Road NB, where TO EAST I-80 should have a right arrow for US 46 EB.


More RIDOT, WB on US 46 at the new New Road SB ramp. Yes, new New. Construction has been taking a couple of years at a highly traveled intersection, but hopefully there will finally be enough lanes. Well, New Road needs to be four lanes between US 46 and I-280, but this is a start.

Eastward on US 46
Into the NJ 23/US 46/I-80 interchange
Back to US 46 main page
US 46/NJ 183 circle photos on the NJ 183 page
Onto NJ 163, old US 46
NJ 159, old US 46

Onto I-80
Onto NJ 94
To PA 611
Onto CR 517 and NJ 182
Onto NJ 10
Onto NJ 15
Onto Beverwyck Rd., Morris CR 637
Onto NJ 53
To I-280
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