New Jersey Roads - NJ 17 (original) (raw)

Left two photos: At, and then on, Island Road EB. The old shield under the JCT is cool and spiffing, the little LWS for the onramp somewhat pooey and bipping. Right photo: Orient Way SB at Rutherford Ave., NJ 17 on the south side of NJ 3. If NJ 17 had been completed as planned as a four-lane divided highway to the south, this would be unnumbered (probably a county road) as would the rest of 17 on Ridge Rd. Clifton is an NJ 3 destination, not NJ 17, because no one except locals is looking for Ridge Rd. anyway.

Before there were interchanges, NJ 17 had traffic circles (and some signals), going back to its days as NJSHR 2 on this 1939 NJ State Highway Dept. Bergen County map. Imagine the multi-leg Paramus Rd./Saddle River Rd./Glen Ave. interchange as a circle. A circle with two U-turns because there's too much traffic for just one. Meanwhile, Racetrack Rd. lost functionality by becoming a pair of right-in/right-outs.

Into New York on NY 17
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