Route 17 is a 27.20-mile (43.77 km) state highway in New Jersey, United States, providing a major route from the George Washington Bridge, Lincoln Tunnel and other northeast New Jersey points to the New York State Thruway at Suffern, New York. The route begins at the Belleville Turnpike (Route 7) in North Arlington and runs north to Route 3 in Rutherford as a local road. From Route 3 north to the junction with U.S. Route 46 in Hasbrouck Heights, the road is a suburban arterial with jughandles. The rest of Route 17, from US 46 to Interstate 287 in Mahwah, near the state line, resembles a freeway in that all cross traffic is handled by interchanges, but many driveways and side streets are accessed via direct turns from the right lane. The last bit, from I-287 to the state line, is concurrent with I-287, as it was upgraded on the spot when the rest of I-287 was built. New York's Route 17 continues the number north after a short concurrency with Interstate 87 along a non-tolled section of the New York State Thruway. A state highway in the United States is a numbered highway primarily administered and financed by a state government. ... State nickname: The Garden State Other U.S. States Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey (D) Acting, Outgoing Jon Corzine (D) (Governor-Elect) Senators Jon Corzine (D) (Outgoing) Frank Lautenberg (D) Official language(s) None defined Area 22,608 km² (47th)  - Land 19,231 km²  - Water 3,378... The George Washington Bridge The George Washington Bridge is a suspension bridge over the Hudson River, connecting the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan Island in New York City to Fort Lee, New Jersey. ... The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1. ... NY Thruway Sign The New York State Thruway (officially the Thomas E. Dewey Thruway) is a limited-access toll highway in the U.S. state of New York. ... Suffern is a village located in Rockland County, New York. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... A typical jughandle setup, with one standard jughandle and one reverse jughandle. ... Interstate 287 is a major highway in New Jersey and New York. ... High-capacity freeway interchange in Los Angeles, California. ... In the field of road transport, a road junction is a place where two or more roads either meet or cross. ... A multiplex or concurrency on a road network occurs where a single physical road carries two or more different highway, motorway or other road numbers. ... Interstate 87 is a 346 mile (558 km) intrastate interstate highway located entirely within the state of New York. ... NY Thruway Sign The New York State Thruway (officially the Thomas E. Dewey Thruway) is a limited-access toll highway in the U.S. state of New York. ...

History

Route 17N was defined in 1923 to run "from Newark, by way of Kearny, Rutherford, Hackensack, Ridgewood and Ramsey to the New York State Line". However, only the road north of Route 10 (Essex Street) in Hackensack is shown on most maps, running north along existing roads - First Street and the Franklin Turnpike (now partly called Passaic Street and Paramus Road) - to the state line. Newark (), nicknamed The Brick City, is the largest city in New Jersey and the county seat of urban Essex County. ...

In the 1927 renumbering, 17N received the Route 2 designation, and was defined to continue south from Hackensack to Route 7 at North Arlington. The extension continued south across Essex Street on Polify Road, Terrace Avenue and Hackensack Street to East Rutherford, leaving on Ridge Road to its end at Route 7. A bypass from Ridge Road at the Lyndhurst/Rutherford line to Terrace Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights was soon completed, and by 1936 the whole old road north of Rutherford was bypassed by a new four-lane divided highway. The road from U.S. Route 46 to Route 4 was built with all cross traffic handled by bridges, while, north of Route 4, frequent U-turn ramps, rather than standard intersections, provided a means of crossing the highway. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with U-Turn. ...

In the meantime, New York had numbered its State Routes, and the extension of New Jersey's Route 17 north and west to Westfield, New York was numbered Route 17. New Jersey had not assigned a Route 17 in the 1927 renumbering, and so in 1941 New Jersey's Route 2 was numbered Route 17 to match and provide a single evacuation route to upstate New York during World War II. Evacuation can have several meanings: In wilderness first aid, evacuation is the transport of a seriously injured person out of the wilderness to the nearest point an ambulance can reach to take them to the hospital, or to the nearest emergency room. ... Upstate New York is the region of New York State outside of the core of the New York metropolitan area. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ...

The road north of Route 3 has been gradually rebuilt to higher standards, with the last traffic light north of US 46 (Lake Street in Ramsey) eliminated ca. 1990 by an interchange. Traffic lights can have several additional lights for filter turns or bus lanes. ... US 46 is an east-west United States highway. ... In the field of road transport, a road junction is a place where two or more roads either meet or cross. ...

Since at least 1936, Route 17 was planned for upgrading to a freeway, not only north of US 46 but south to the Newark area. This plan was later refined for a southern terminus of Interstate 280 in Harrison, but was cancelled. The ca. 1972 interchange at Route 3 was built to allow for this southern extension. High-capacity freeway interchange in Los Angeles, California. ... Newark (), nicknamed The Brick City, is the largest city in New Jersey and the county seat of urban Essex County. ... Interstate 280 is the designation for several Interstate Highways in the United States, all of which are related to Interstate 80: Interstate 280 (California), a north-south freeway running from San Jose, California to San Francisco, California. ... Harrison is a town located in Hudson County, New Jersey. ...

Route 2N

Route 2N was defined in 1938 to run from Route 2 (Ridge Road, now Route 17) in Lyndhurst west along Kingsland Avenue and over the Passaic River on the Park Avenue Bridge into Nutley, where it would end at Union Avenue (west of Route 7). It does not appear to have been taken over or signed. The Great Falls of the Passaic River in Paterson, New Jersey The Passaic River is a tributary of Newark Bay, approximately 80 mi (129 km long), in northern New Jersey in the United States. ...

Route description

Route 17 begins at the Belleville Turnpike (Route 7/County Route 506/County Route 507) on the border of Kearny and North Arlington and heads north through North Arlington and Lyndhurst on Ridge Road, a two-lane local street with speed limits of 25 to 35 mph (40 to 55 km/h). At Rutherford Avenue, on the border of Rutherford, it turns east to parallel the Route 3 freeway to the south and head for the edge of the New Jersey Meadowlands. Route 17 makes a curve to the south and then a hairpin turn into the Route 3 interchange, which was built ca. 1972 with the intent of building a new road south from Route 3 through the Meadowlands. A speed limit is the maximum speed allowed by law for vehicles on a road. ... Map highlighting Rutherfords location within Bergen County. ... High-capacity freeway interchange in Los Angeles, California. ... New Jersey Meadowlands is a general name for the large ecosystem of wetlands in northeast New Jersey in the United States. ... A nearly 180-degree turn in a road, trail, or ramp is called a hairpin turn (also hairpin bend or, if in a trail, a switchback). ...

At the Route 3 interchange, NJ 17 becomes a six-lane divided highway with a 50 mph (80 km/h) speed limit and jughandles. It passes north through Rutherford, East Rutherford, Carlstadt, Wood-Ridge and Hasbrouck Heights, with interchanges at Route 120 in East Rutherford and Moonachie Road in Wood-Ridge, both built ca. 1971. With the exception of a short stretch in Rutherford with a median strip, the road is divided by a Jersey barrier. A typical jughandle setup, with one standard jughandle and one reverse jughandle. ... On an expressway, motorway, or autobahn, the median (North American English) or central reservation (British English) is the strip of grass or the wall which separates opposing lanes of traffic. ... A Jersey barrier was originally developed to divide multiple lanes on a highway by the state of New Jersey in the United States. ...

At the 1937 interchange with U.S. Route 46, Route 17 drops to two lanes in each direction and the lanes split. The Bendix Diner is located between the traffic lanes at the intersection of Williams Avenue, the last traffic light on Route 17 before the state line. The lanes merge briefly as the road passes under Terrace Avenue (interchange built ca. 1933) and enters Hackensack, but split again for the long interchange with Interstate 80 (built 1964). Along this strip, the road is again three lanes in each direction, including an interchange with Summit Avenue (originally built ca. 1933) while I-80 is in the median, but when the lanes rejoin, in Lodi, a lane drops at the ca. 1933 Essex Street interchange on the Maywood border. Traffic lights can have several additional lights for filter turns or bus lanes. ... Map highlighting Hackensacks location within Bergen County. ... MAJOR JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # US-101 CA 0 20px I-880 CA ? I-580 CA ? CA ? I-680 CA ? I-780 CA ? I-505 CA ? I-5 CA ? California/Nevada State Line CA ?/NV ? I-580 NV ? Nevada/Utah State Line NV ?/UT ? I-215 UT ? I-505 UT ? UT... Map highlighting Lodis location within Bergen County. ... Map highlighting Maywoods location within Bergen County. ...

Through Maywood and Rochelle Park, the four-lane divided highway cannot be widened without considerable expense due to structures, such as overpasses and underpasses that would require complete replacement, and businesses that would encroach upon an expanded right-of-way. The result is a bottleneck and a persistent slowdown of traffic through the ca. 1933 interchanges with East Passaic Street and Fairview Avenue, the latter in Paramus. Map highlighting Rochelle Parks location within Bergen County. ... Overpass in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Flyover in Miami Beach, Florida An overpass (In UK, most Commonwealth countries flyover) is a bridge, road or similar structure that crosses over another road. ... Right-of-way is a legal term which may have any of several meanings: priority at a crossing, or in traffic. ... A bottleneck is literally the neck of a glass or pottery bottle. ...

At the Fairview Avenue interchange, the road regains a third lane in each direction. The interchange with Route 4 adjacent to the Garden State Plaza shopping mall was rebuilt in 1999, replacing the 1932 cloverleaf interchange by adding several flyover ramps. Route 17 is flanked by businesses and shopping malls for most of its length in Paramus, and it gains additional traffic through its 1955/1957 interchange with the Garden State Parkway (exit 163). Halfway between Route 4 and the Garden State Parkway is a ca. 1960 interchange with Century Road. North of the Parkway in Paramus are two other ca. 1960 interchanges with Midland Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue, and in between is a ca. 1971 interchange with the Paramus Park industrial park. Garden State Plaza is a large shopping mall in Paramus, New Jersey, a suburb of New York City on the intersection of New Jersey State Highway 4 and New Jersey State Highway 17 near the Garden State Parkway. ... A cloverleaf interchange is a two-level interchange in which left turns are handled by loop ramps. ... Overpass in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Flyover in Miami Beach, Florida An overpass (In UK, India, Hong Kong flyover) is a bridge, road or similar structure that crosses over another road. ... The Garden State Parkway is a 172 mile (277 km) limited-access toll parkway that stretches the length of New Jersey from the New York Thruway at Montvale, NJ to Cape May at the southern tip of the state. ... An industrial park is an area of land set aside for industrial development. ...

At Linwood Avenue, the border of Ridgewood (interchange ca. 1964), the penetration of businesses along the side of the road lessens dramatically. North of this point, the speed limit is 55 mph (88 km/h). There are no businesses along the road in Ho-Ho-Kus, Waldwick, or Saddle River, although side streets continue to intersect at-grade (with cross traffic blocked by a Jersey barrier). Interchanges are provided with Paramus Road (ca. 1964) in Linwood, Hollywood Avenue (County Route 502, built ca. 1966) in Ho-Ho-Kus, Sheridan Avenue (ca. 1970) in Waldwick, and Allendale Avenue (ca. 1970) in Saddle River. The bridge over the Saddle River in Ridgewood, north of the Paramus Road interchange, dates from 1927, and was part of the through road prior to the current 1930s alignment. This old alignment joins at Paramus Road and leaves just north of the bridge at Franklin Turnpike, which only has access to the southbound lanes. On the Ridgewood/Ho-Ho-Kus border is an intersection with Racetrack Road, with cross traffic blocked by the Jersey barrier. This had been one of the last traffic lights north of US 46, but was cut ca. 1986 and a pedestrian bridge was added. Map highlighting Ridgewoods location within Bergen County. ... Map highlighting Ho-Ho-Kus location within Bergen County. ... Waldwick is a borough located in Bergen County, New Jersey. ... Map highlighting Saddle Rivers location within Bergen County. ... A Jersey barrier was originally developed to divide multiple lanes on a highway by the state of New Jersey in the United States. ... Saddle River could refer to: Saddle River, a town in New Jersey in the United States Upper Saddle River, a town in New Jersey in the United States The Saddle River, a river in New Jersey in the United States ... A Jersey barrier was originally developed to divide multiple lanes on a highway by the state of New Jersey in the United States. ... Traffic lights will sometimes differ where there are several lanes of traffic. ... US 46 is an east-west United States highway. ...

Businesses resume along the road in Allendale, Upper Saddle River, Ramsey and Mahwah, but traffic generally flows freely through the area. Interchanges are provided with Lake Street/Crescent Avenue on the Upper Saddle River/Ramsey border (built ca. 1992), Franklin Turnpike (County Route 507) and Spring Street (both ca. 1955, the former originally a traffic circle) in Ramsey, and Central Avenue and Ramapo Avenue (also ca. 1955) in Mahwah. The Lake Street interchange was the last traffic light north of US 46. North of Ramapo Avenue, Route 17 crosses the Ramapo River and U.S. Route 202 at a ca. 1933 interchange, before the final ca. 1955 interchange with Stag Hill Road just before merging with Interstate 287 (built 1993). Map highlighting Allendales location within Bergen County. ... Upper Saddle River is a town located in Bergen County, New Jersey. ... Map highlighting Ramseys location within Bergen County. ... Map highlighting Mahwahs location within Bergen County. ... A traffic circle is an intersection with a circular shape and, usually, a central island. ... Traffic lights can have several additional lights for filter turns or bus lanes. ... US 46 is an east-west United States highway. ... The Ramapo River is a tributary of the Pompton River, approximately 30 mi (48 km) long, in southern New York and northern New Jersey in the United States. ... Interstate 287 is a major highway in New Jersey and New York. ...

The 0.39-mile (0.63 km) section from the I-287 merge to the state line was upgraded in 1994 to I-287. Just across the state line, the freeway ends at Interstate 87 (the New York State Thruway) at exit 15 between Suffern and Hillburn. I-287 turns east with I-87 south, while New York Route 17 runs north on I-87 to the Ramapo interchange (exit 15A). Route 17 then heads north alongside the Thruway to Harriman and turns west onto a freeway, merging with Interstate 90 near Erie, Pennsylvania; as of 2005 much of the freeway has been redesignated Interstate 86. The old road through Hillburn still has access, now southbound only, to New Jersey Route 17 at the state line. Interstate 87 is a 346 mile (558 km) intrastate interstate highway located entirely within the state of New York. ... NY Thruway Sign The New York State Thruway (officially the Thomas E. Dewey Thruway) is a limited-access toll highway in the U.S. state of New York. ... Harriman is a village located in Orange County, New York. ... High-capacity freeway interchange in Los Angeles, California. ... INTERSTATE JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # I-5 WA 2 I-82 WA 110 I-15 MT 219 - 227 I-94 MT 456 I-25 WY 55 I-29 SD 396 I-35 MN 159 I-94 WI 44 - 138 I-39 WI 108 - IL 17 I-94 IL 89 - 102 I... The Erie skyline, facing south from Presque Isle State Park across Presque Isle Bay Presque Isle State Park, known to locals as the peninsula. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... {{{type3}}} JUNCTIONS JUNCTION EXIT # I-90 PA 1 I-390 NY 146 (36) I-99 NY 169 (44) I-81 NY 245 NY (75) I-84 NY 362 (121) I-87 NY Legend BROWSE STATE HWYS Prev Next {{{browse}}} Interstate 86 runs from an intersection with Interstate 90 in Erie...

References

• NJ 17 straight line diagram (PDF)
• NJ 1920s Route 17-N
• Highways of Bergen County, New Jersey - NJ 17
• nycroads.com - NJ 17 Freeway