ASIN: B00DX5HF2K
Publisher: walkthetown.com
Pages: 169
The New Jersey Turnpike first showed up on a highway engineer's drawing board in the 1930s as two untolled freeways to connect the Hudson River at the George Washington Bridge and the Delaware River in Philadelphia. Money was hard to scrape up in those days, however, and construction did not get underway until 1948 when the road became a single toll road under the authority of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority.The southern terminus was linked tot he newly constructed Delaware Memorial Bridge and traffic started rolling on the New Jersey Turnpike in late 1951 and by the following year the original 118-mile roadway was open. An extension to its current 122.4-mile length was not completed until 1971.The price tag was $255 million and while construction had been a simple matter through South Jersey the road approaching New York City through the New Jersey swamplands required the finest ...
