History
Route 12 was legislated as a new route in the 1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering that was to run from Frenchtown east to Route 28 in Raritan, Somerset County, running along its current alignment to Flemington and following present-day U.S. Route 202 to Raritan. By the 1940s, U.S. Route 202 and Route 29 were designated along the alignment of Route 12 between Flemington and Raritan, cutting the route’s eastern terminus back to Flemington. In the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering, Route 12 was officially legislated to run from Frenchtown to U.S. Route 202 and Route 69 (now Route 31) in Flemington. There are currently plans to modify or eliminate the three traffic circles along Route 12 in Flemington in order to ease traffic congestion along the route. The Main Street Circle is planned to become a roundabout while plans are still being thought out for the other two traffic circles.
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