History
The current alignment of County Route 506 was legislated as part of Route 9 in the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering, which was to run from Pine Brook southeast to Belleville. Route 9 was eventually removed from the state highway system, and when the 500-series county routes were created in 1952, County Route 506 was designated to run from Route 6/U.S. Route 46 (now Route 159) in Fairfield to U.S. Route 1/9 Truck in Jersey City, following Route 7 between Belleville and Jersey City. Eventually, County Route 506 was removed from the portion of road that ran concurrent with Route 7, ending at Route 7 and Route 21 in Belleville instead.
In 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, work started on the improved bus service on Bloomfield Avenue in Bloomfield and Newark. The $2 million project includes new bus shelters, signaling priority, and express bus service to Newark Liberty International Airport and Downtown Newark.
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