I-295 comes in from the west and heads off to the northeast, the un-numbered New Jersey Turnpike starts at the Tollgate, US 40 comes in from the west with I-295 and goes east just south of the Turnpike and US 130 heads off to the north.
This is the east end of one of the great transportation related 'choke points' in the eastern USA. Several major routes (US 40, I-295, the New Jersey Turnpike) all come together here for the crossing of the Delaware River into Delaware (the Delaware Memorial Bridge's parallel spans are just off the map to the west). These interchanges have all of the hallmarks of 'New Jersey' design, with interstate compatibility where it is needed while the other needed ramps are seemingly 'jumbled' together in just the right ways. Not only does this interchange make the necessary through connections, but 3 seperate crossroads are also accomidated.
I have in previous installments advocated rerouting I-95 to the entire length of the New Jersey Turnpike 'mainline', and here is a BIG reason why. The Turnpike is the 'straight through' routing to and from the Delaware Memorial Bridge. After I-295 diverges from the mainline, there is one more offramp (EB US 40) and then the 'get ticket' tollgate. The Turnpike is then a DIRECT and very speedy route (picking up I-95 along the way) all the way to the George Washington Bridge, which in turn takes I-95 into the Bronx on to the New England states.
*I also Advocate* adding some badly needed 'redundancy' into the east coast/New Jersey through transportation network by building an additional Delaware River crossing, connecting US 9/Garden State Parkway to US 13 (roughly via US 9) in Delaware. There *are* other crossings not too far to the north, but none so strategically important as this one.
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