New Jersey State Route 158

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New Jersey State Route 158 road sign
Basic data
Opening:  1953
Resolution:  1995
Starting point:  Circle sign 21.svg NJ 21 in Newark
End point:  Second Street in Harrison
Counties:  Essex County and Hudson County

New Jersey State Route 158 (or Center Street Bridge ) was a short state route between Newark in Essex County and Harrison, New Jersey in Hudson County in New Jersey in the United States . Center Street Bridge was first built in 1834. The structure at that time was first a single-deck railway bridge over the Passaic River , around eight decades later a second deck was built for rapid transit in 1911.

The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad - now part of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson - was moved to railroad tracks along New Jersey State Route 21 in 1937 . The upper level of the bridge was therefore abandoned and later converted into a street. At the west end in Newark, the bridge ran south past Saybrook Place and ended at Park Place. In Harrison, the other end of the bridge was on Second Street, between Essex Street and Taft Place.

Eventually, the road on the upper deck of the bridge was designated by the New Jersey State Highway Department as New Jersey State Highway Route 25A-D , a branch of the recently established State Route 25A, today's Interstate 280 and former New Jersey State Route 58 . This designation remained unchanged until the renumbering of the New Jersey State Routes on January 1, 1953, when the route became New Jersey State Route 158. State Route 158 appeared on the New Jersey map until 1960, when the number disappeared from the street maps. In 1995 the bridge was demolished.

history

Railway bridge

Detail of the bridgehead of the NJ 158 in Newark, with the Dock Bridge in the background .

The lower deck of the bridge is a continuation of Center Street in Newark and was originally designed for the New Jersey Railroad , which later became the Pennsylvania Railroad . On September 15, 1834, the bridge was used for the first time by a train. A shortcut line that bypassed this bridge was put into operation in 1870, and the old line became a branch line. On March 1, 1901, at 10:23 p.m. local time, the last wagons of a passenger train, which consisted of the locomotive and five wagons and had just left the station on Center Street, jumped off the rails. The derailed wagons were dragged along the track bed for about a hundred meters. They were then disconnected and the train continued on its way to Jersey City . The reasons for the wagons jumping out of the tracks have not been determined.

In July 1901, New York and New Jersey moved in the United States Congress to improve several bridges in those states . The project provided for $ 45,000 (1901) to dredge and maintain the Passaic River channel under the bridge. On April 2, 1911, construction of a new high-speed rail line along the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad began in Newark . Completion of the building was planned by the summer of 1911 to make it easier for commuters working in New York City . The same project included building subways in Newark. At that time the bridge structure was made of steel and the bridge deck was made of concrete. The project envisaged that the upper deck would be around six meters above the lower deck. In the middle of the bridge there was to be a nearly seventy-meter-long section that was intended as a drawbridge.

The new high-speed railway line and the renovation of the Center Street Bridge were completed on November 18, 1911, when the last section of track was laid. On November 25, 1911, the bridge was put back into operation. The upper deck now ran 86 trains daily in each direction, the lower deck was used exclusively by freight trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad.

On June 27, 1937, the City of Newark, along with Hudson and Essex Counties, proposed converting the upper deck of the bridge into a street after the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (now the Port Authority Trans-Hudson ) was to be relocated to a track that parallel to New Jersey State Route 21 , designated in 1927 . Later that year, the renovation was completed and the upper deck was opened for road use.

Road bridge

Center Street Bridge was later incorporated into New Jersey's public highway system. The New Jersey State Highway Department laid the New Jersey State Highway Route 25A south near the bridge , which later became part of New Jersey Route 58 and later Interstate 280 . The New Jersey State Assembly Act stated on State Highway Route 25A:

"ROUTE NO. 25A. Starting at a point on State Highway Route No. 25 in Jersey City and extending over Jersey City, Kearny, Harrison, at or near the current Bridge Street Bridge between Essex and Hudson Counties over the Passaic River and with State Highway Route No. 21 and Clifton Avenue in Newark. "

- New Jersey State Law
Remnants of NJ 158 on the Newark side

A few years later, the New Jersey State Highway Department designated the upper deck of the bridge as New Jersey State Highway Route 25A-D , as a branch to Route 25A, but unlike Route 25A-D was not anchored in state law . This assignment for the route between New Jersey Route 21 and Center Street in Newark and Second Street in Harrison remained unchanged until the New Jersey State Routes were renumbered in 1953 .

When State Routes were renumbered, State Highway Route 25A became New Jersey Route 58, and the road over the bridge was named New Jersey Route 158 . Route 158 was shown as a highway on road maps until 1960, but the entry disappeared from the maps. Center Street Bridge was demolished in 1995.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pennsylvania Railroad Chronology for 1834 ( English , PDF; 82 kB) Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Society. S. June 21, 2004. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
  2. ↑ Local News In Brief ( PDF), New York Times. November 20, 1870, p. 8. Retrieved March 20, 2009. 
  3. ↑ Train's Narrow Escape ( English , PDF) New York Times. S. 5. March 2, 1901. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
  4. ^ River and Harbor Work ( PDF), New York Times. July 17, 1901, p. 2. Retrieved March 20, 2009. 
  5. ↑ New High Speed Line for Newark (English) (PDF), New York Times. April 2, 1911, p. XX1. Retrieved March 20, 2009. 
  6. ↑ New Short Line To Newark Completed (English) (PDF), New York Times. November 19, 1911, p. XX2. Retrieved March 20, 2009. 
  7. ^ Would Convert Old Span ( PDF), New York Times. June 28, 1937, p. 19. Retrieved March 20, 2009. 
  8. ↑ Steve Alpert, Moraeski, Dan: 21 ( English ) Alps' Roads. S. 1. 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
  9. ↑ a b c Steve Alpert, Moraeski, Dan: 25AD ( English ) Alps' Roads. S. 1. 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
  10. ↑ a b c Steve Alpert, Moraeski, Dan: 25A ( English ) Alps' Roads. S. 1. 2009. Retrieved March 20, 2009.
  11. ↑ ROUTE NO. 25A. Beginning at a point in State Highway Route No. 25 in Jersey City and extending via Jersey City, Kearny, Harrison, across the Passaic river at or near the present Bridge street bridge between the counties of Essex and Hudson to and connecting with State Highway Route No. 21 and Clifton avenue in Newark.
    L. 1939, c. 198, p. 575, p. 1. Amended by L.1945, c. 58, p. 334, p. 1.

Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ 30 "  N , 74 ° 9 ′ 51"  W.