In the west, US 46 is a two-lane road, while in the east, US 46 is a four-to-six lane Jersey freeway and/or expressway, and joins with US 1-9 for one of only two New Jersey state highway triplexes (to find the other, find Clinton). For awhile, US 46 either crossed the Delaware or Columbia Bridges into PA, or later on used the Delaware Water Gap section of I-80 before the Interstate Highways were created. Now, though, it runs from I-80 Exit 4 to the NY state line on I-95/US 1/US 9. Why it doesn't just end at 1-9 is beyond me, since NYSDOT will clearly never embrace 46 as its own. Given that it's just in one state, not to mention that it's north of the correctly-numbered US 22, it should just revert to the still-available NJ 6.


This former ramp took Fairfield Rd. EB traffic right onto US 46 EB in Fairfield. The ramp is also the path of the original NJ 6, where it came off of Fairfield Rd. and began its own alignment, heading straight toward the old Willowbrook Circle with NJ 23 in Wayne. That alignment now serves as the EB lanes, and to get onto US 46 EB one is now intended to go straight on to Passaic Ave. and turn a soft left.

US 46 west of Dover US 46 from Dover to Fairfield US 46/NJ 23/I-80 interchange US 46 from Wayne to Clifton US 46 from Elmwood Park to US 1-9 US 1/9/46 US 1/9/46/I-95 NJ 159, former US 46 NJ 163, former US 46 NJ 183 and US 46/NJ 183 circle photos

When construction closed the Hollywood Ave. exit, these misbegotten signs directed traffic to continue west to the Gately Overpass, then back east on Fairfield Rd. (CR 615) to the next entrance (last sign).

This was WB at the first interchange west of Willowbrook Mall. Two Bridges Road comes to a Y a short distance to the north, where all three legs are the same road; the third leg, a one-lane concrete bridge, ends just across the Passaic River. The LGS at the top of the ramp sports an old Essex Airport trailblazer, the only one I know of with "Essex" on top. Sadly, something hit the BGS in June 2004, knocking one of the poles out of the ground, and the sign was taken down in August after being sideways most of the summer.

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