Encyclopedia > 1927 New Jersey State Highway renumbering
In 1927, the State Highways in New Jersey were renumbered. The previous system was already falling apart, with duplicate numbers and unnumbered roads. Thus, a whole new system was legislated. Main routes received numbers from 1 to 12 and 21 to 50. Spurs received a prefix of S; an S4A was also assigned as a spur of 4. 18N was kept (but soon became part of 1), and parts of 4, 5 and 8 became 4N, 5N and 8N.
It appears that for a short time after the renumbering, old numbers were still used alongside new numbers for other roads.
In this table, 'unnum' refers to a road that was legislated before 1927 but not numbered, and '--' refers to a road that was not legislated before 1927.
After a failed renumbering in 1926, a completely new numbering was instituted in 1927, with only four sections of pre-1927 routes remaining as their old numbers suffixed with N - Route 4N, Route 5N, Route 8N and Route 18N.
The new numbers followed a general geographical pattern from north to south - 1-12 in northern NewJersey, 21-28 roughly radiating from Newark, 29-37 from Trenton, 38-47 from Camden, and 48-50 in southern NewJersey.
The majority of new numbers assigned since the 1953 renumbering have been from 166 to 185, with some short routes instead receiving numbers based on their parents (for instance, an old section of U.S. Route 9 became Route 109).
In 1927, NewJersey'sstatehighways were renumbered.
A partial renumbering was proposed in 1926, getting rid of the duplicates and assigning numbers to many of the unnumbered routes, but instead a total renumbering was done in 1927.
The law authorizing the renumbering indicated that these were to remain, and so the StateHighway Commission added a suffix of N to distinguish them from the new routes of the same number:
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