US 1-9 Truck comes off of its new connector loop over industrial Jersey City and comes to NJ 7 below US 1-9, which for some reason has an underdeck truss while crossing a truck roadway as if clearance don't matter. It do, but it's safely above 16'.


The eastern two trusses on the Pulaski Skyway, easily visible from the connector roadway.


The new connector is higher than the old road, so it has a nice view of the Wittpenn Bridge on NJ 7 (right) and the Harsimus Branch Lift Bridge on NJ Transit (left) to the west.


And the 1928 Lower Hack Lift on NJ Transit to the north.


Gone, but amusing, at the beginning of NJ 7 in the old Charlotte Circle, courtesy David Greenberger. I guess when you have two Truck routes, they become a Trucks route?




For a road that spends its short life suffixed and used primarily by trucks, US 1-9 Truck sure is important, spawning a major E-W route across the Meadowlands and an even more major N-S route that goes through Staten Island and eventually becomes I-287. Now... what's US 1&9T? I had hoped it was just one contractor's interpretation of how to sign a Truck route, because I much prefer the method of sticking a TRUCK banner above the shields, and the ampersand was ditched for the hyphen by NJDOT years ago, but it seems to have spread since. The shields here are generally wonky; those on the BGS stick out beyond their black backgrounds (and why does an Interstate shield need a white background, RIDOT? I mean NJDOT?), and the new-style NJ 440 shield (the last 440 photo) is much boxier and less elegant than the normal one (first 440 photo) or the old one (middle photo). The first two photos are obsolete since the opening of the new connector.


Alternating views of the Skyway with the surprisingly newer (1952) Hackensack River bridge. To the west, the Skyway rises again and the Truck route drawbridges again over the Passaic.


Now the Passaic River drawbridge and more Skyway views. The detour signs aren't needed here because I-95 is signed down the Doremus Ave. ramp anyway.


Now of the bridge, the 3rd photo on the Doremus/Turnpike ramp and missing its I-95 shield. The first 2 photos are left and right on the same gantry. NJDOT needs to wake up and realize the NJ Turnpike is not a destination - and that including it on every sign with a shield is ridiculously redundant. How about telling motorists that the Turnpike is a good way to get to, say, New Brunswick, or Trenton, or Camden? Or, gee, New York City. Oh wait, no one would recognize that one.


This is in the great tangle of roadways that occurs as SB US 1-9 Truck tries to sort itself out between Newark-bound traffic along Raymond Blvd. and Airport/SB traffic along US 1-9. Going right takes you onto mainline US 1-9, so the "truck" banner is unnecessary.


US 1-9T is about to merge into US 1-9, but the slip ramp hasn't come over from the Pulaski Skyway yet so it goes on this page.

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