History
What is now U.S. 1/9 Truck between Newark and Jersey City was originally the Newark Plank Road; in 1913 this became the first segment of the Lincoln Highway. The current route of U.S. Route 1/9 Truck was designated to be an extension of pre-1927 Route 1 in 1922, a route that was to run from Trenton to Jersey City. When the U.S. Highway System was established in 1926, the current truck route became a part of the U.S. Route 1/9 concurrency. A year later, in the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 25 was designated to run along the entire length of the route along with U.S. Route 1/9 as part of its journey from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in Camden to the Holland Tunnel in Jersey City, while Route 1 was also designated along the portion north of Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City as a part of its routing from Bayonne to Rockleigh. Following the opening of the Pulaski Skyway in 1932, U.S. Route 1/9 and Route 25 were moved to the new bridge. After trucks were banned from the Pulaski Skyway in 1934, the portion of Route 25 between Newark and Route 1 was designated as Route 25T. In the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, U.S. Route 1/9 Truck was designated to replace all of Route 25T as well as the portion of Route 1 between Route 25T and the Tonnele Circle. Beginning in late 2008 the New Jersey Department of Transportation replaced the viaduct that carries the route over St. Paul's Avenue, which was built in 1928 and determined structurally deficient. The $271.9 million replacement, was completed in September 2011. In addition to replacing the St. Paul's Avenue viaduct, the approaches to U.S. Route 1/9 Truck between Route 7 and the Tonnele Circle will be improved.
In anticipation of a general increase of activity in Port of New York and New Jersey and new development on West Side and Hackensack Riverfront studies are being conducted to make the intersection with Route 440 a multi-level traffic circle and northern and southern (Route 440) approaches to it into a multi-use urban boulevard that includes grade separations and additional medians.
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