Now some westbound photos, ending with some joint detail.
Looking north and south at the Delaware River.
Second building off the span.
WB at NJ 29. Yes, this is actually the end of 29, not TO it, except NJ 29 is town-maintained within the borders of Frenchtown - there is an END 29 assembly entering the town. Signage therefore reflects maintenance, not legislation. Also note the old pole, which would have held a little white sign once upon a time.
The only old NJ 12 shield left, EB at the beginning of CR 513.
The WB sign (second photo) is the original, but while the replica doesn't do a very good job of replicating, in its own right it has become an anomaly - and is now fairly old as well.
The stamps in the northern parapets of the Wickechoeke Creek bridge; NJ 12 is one of the rare routes that has kept its number from the days of bridge stampings.
To help introduce the remaining photos, I'll give you this aerial view of the east end of NJ 12, looking north. NJ 12 comes in from the west as a two-lane road (from a third circle not shown here - CR 523) and circles with CR 611/Main St., with Reaville Rd. spurring off to the southeast. It then becomes a four-lane divided highway for a short distance but quickly ends at Flemington Circle, where NJ 31 and US 202 come together from the north (31, top right) and northeast (202, right center) to head southwest. Despite being modified to include a northbound bypass of the circle proper, the racetrack on the right is still a true circle with traffic in the circle required to yield to US 202 SB as it enters, whereas the one on the left is now a roundabout with all entering traffic yielding. I would love if Flemington Circle got the Somerville Circle treatment with a US 202 flyover (at least for SB traffic). NJ 31 was once slated for a western Flemington bypass to take some traffic away, but that's dead.
At the first of the two circles, I am on CR 611/Main St. entering the circle in the first photo and leaving in the second. I'd much rather not see it enter like that, but I'll take the exit with an outdated, hyphenated, mostly faded, desiccated sign.
NJ 12 EB ends at the second circle.
If you went into the Flemington Circle before it was remodeled and came back out on NJ 12 WB, this is the order of the the large shields you would encounter. Note the two signs with old light fixtures above them - they date the initial installation of the assemblies somewhere around 30-40 years or even more, possibly with white instead of green signs beneath.
NJ 12 EB ends at the second circle.
