NJ state gov. deliberately interfered with federal highway construction to block competition for the two toll roads that NJ owns. Numerous problems are related to that. Some have already been fixed. An example would be the long incomplete interchange between I78 and the GSP that has now been completed. The real I95 was supposed to interchange there. They waited to build some of the ramps until that was constructed and when it was cancelled, they just never built them at all.
There was supposed to be an I95 that was a totally separate road from the Turnpike. NJ blocked that in North Jersey but parts around Trenton(that didn’t threaten revenue on the toll roads) were built, making the roads in that area super confusing and illogical.
NJ state government built limited access highways just about before anyone else in the world and then fell behind the whole rest of the country due to the corrupt mentality that prevails here.
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There was supposed to be an I95 that was a totally separate road from the Turnpike. NJ blocked that in North Jersey but parts around Trenton(that didn’t threaten revenue on the toll roads) were built, making the roads in that area super confusing and illogical.
Part of the problem was a law that forbade a free bridge across the Delaware within a certain distance of existing toll bridges. The Scudders Falls crossing is only a few feet away from the legal limit.
NJ state government built limited access highways just about before anyone else in the world and then fell behind the whole rest of the country due to the corrupt mentality that prevails here.
In the US, Pennsylvania was first. Consider New Jersey in a tie with California, Illinois and New York. But you're right about the mentality. (in my best Marlon Brando impersonation) "Youse guys wouldn't want for us to not dip our beaks. It's the Joisey way."