from Mullica River to I-195
This ain't Delaware, it's Joisey, people! A little US-shield respect? In Tuckerton.

Unique one-piece assembly on the Garden State Parkway NB Exit 50 ramp, which just happens to also be US 9 NB across the Mullica River (and that's why it's on this page). NJ 167, former US 9, has had all its bridges washed away - and then the state disowned the discontiguous island roadways.


These suspiciously Parkway-looking signs are SB, about to enter the Parkway at Exit 50; the first photo is courtesy Scott Colbert. Straight ahead is a dead-end on Amasa Landing Road, which US 9 uses to get from its former self over to the Parkway. The US 9 shield's font is very Parkway-esque, and the tattered ACE shield has a GSP arrow beneath it.


First, looking south at the northern piece of NJ 167, the old alignment of US 9 that still has a short open piece but is no longer state-maintained. The other piece of NJ 167 is south of the river; click on the link at the bottom of this page to see photos from both halves. The second photo is looking at Old New York Rd., another old alignment of US 9 that's definitely not state-owned anymore. US 9 now gently curves from the Parkway offramp around to the shoreline, whereas it used to head straight off of now-former-167, up here, and then curved sharply at what's now CR 542.


Why wine? Why here?


This is the beginning of CR 542 WB in Burlington County, NOT Atlantic County, on US 9 NB. The errors get worse on CR 542 itself, so click on over via the link on the bottom of the page.


NB. The second sign is actually new to the bridge, but commend NJDOT for emulating the old style.

Now SB.


Old-school BP sign on the SB side.


NB in Waretown - not only old, but missing which COUNTY.


Scott Colbert sent me the SB sign in the same place, with the same error.


He also sent me this one on the northern side of the intersection, where the error is compounded by extra blue space and the lack of the word COUNTY as well.


In the side of the Oyster Creek overpass.


In a McDonalds in Lacey, courtesy Scott Colbert. For once, I'm speechless.


Never seen shields in blades before. Click for excruciating closeup, where you can see that the county shield is three-dimensional, courtesy Scott Colbert.


Very hand-painted station sign, NB. I had to censor the sticker on the fire engine, because this site is viewable by all ages.


Bayview Ave. SB at Veeder Lane, Bayville, courtesy Scott Colbert. The wrong-font 9 was patched over what was probably once a correct state route shield - the NJDOT in the corner of the shield is misleading, as I'm sure the DOT had nothing to do with this being erected.


The NB beginning of NJ 166, old US 9 through Toms River.


Crazy vertical misalignments, on US 9 NB as it heads from NJ 166 in Beachwood to the Garden State Parkway. There's old NJSHD curbing at this intersection, and then with a wide font, US 9 heads onto the multiplex.

Onto the GSP multiplex, with wide font.


SB at the beginning of NJ 166, a complete Toms River through route that was US 9, second photo courtesy Scott Colbert. It should still be US 9 or at least BUSINESS 9, unlike the consecutively numbered NJ 167, a former US 9 alignment that once crossed the Mullica River but has fallen into disrepair and lost all its bridges to Nature. That's a beautiful, oval NJ 166 shield, but the US 9 on the Parkway entrance LGS is horribly fudged, and the NB GSP should have a better control destination than G S PARKWAY. Eatontown? Keyport? New York?


South of NJ 88 in Lakewood, donated by Scott Colbert. I don't really want it either, but these monstrosities have a way of dying at the doorstep of my website.


Very reflective overheads, SB at the western end of NJ 88.


Over-specificity on the part of a Wawa in Pleasant Plains, also from Scott. US 9 wasn't even NJSHR 9 back when state routes were state highway routes.


Aldrich Rd. WB in Howell, just south of I-195, a strange and disturbing assembly followed up by one that's just out-of-this-state (hint: no black background), courtesy Scott Colbert.

Continue on US 9 north of I-195
Onto US 9 south of the Mullica River
Onto old US 9 across the Mullica, NJ 167
Onto old US 9 near Tuckerton, Everready Rd.
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To the Garden State Parkway with brief US 9 multiplexes
To the Atlantic City Expressway
Onto CR 542
Onto CR 532
Onto NJ 166
Onto NJ 88
Proposed US 9 Atlantic County freeway on Steve Anderson's phillyroads.com
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