Editing Somers Point, New Jersey (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:2021-05-27 08 32 25 View north along New Jersey State Route 444 (Garden State Parkway) from the overpass for U.S. Route 9 (New Road) in Somers Point, Atlantic County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|The northbound [[Garden State Parkway]] at [[U.S. Route 9 in New Jersey|U.S. Route 9]] in Somers Point]]

===Roads and highways===
{{As of|2010|5}}, the city had a total of {{convert|55.39|mi}} of roadways, of which {{convert|43.19|mi}} were maintained by the municipality, {{convert|5.45|mi}} by Atlantic County and {{convert|3.73|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]] and {{convert|3.02|mi}} by the [[New Jersey Turnpike Authority]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/mileage_Atlantic.pdf Atlantic County Mileage by Municipality and Jurisdiction], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], May 2010. Accessed November 19, 2013.</ref>

The [[Garden State Parkway]] passes through the city, connecting [[Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey|Egg Harbor Township]] on either side of the city.<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/pdf/00000444__-.pdf#page=10 Garden State Parkway Straight Line Diagram], [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]], August 2014. Accessed February 20, 2023.</ref> Interchange 30 for the Parkway is located in the city, signed for Somers Point and Downtown [[Ocean City, New Jersey|Ocean City]].<ref>[http://www.state.nj.us/turnpike/our-roadways.html Travel Resources: Interchanges, Service Areas & Commuter Lots], [[New Jersey Turnpike Authority]]. Accessed July 28, 2014.</ref>

On the city's southern border, bridges connect to [[Cape May County, New Jersey|Cape May County]] via the Garden State Parkway to [[Upper Township, New Jersey|Upper Township]], into Ocean City via [[New Jersey Route 52|Route 52]] and over the [[Beesley's Point Bridge]], which has been demolished.<ref>[http://www.somerspointgov.org/main/about.asp About our Community], City of Somers Point. Accessed July 28, 2014.</ref> As part of a $400 million project completed by the [[New Jersey Department of Transportation]] in 2012, a new causeway for Route 52 was completed over Great Egg Harbor Bay, replacing the Howard S. Stainton Memorial Causeway that had been completed in 1933.<ref>Smith, Shaun. [http://www.shorenewstoday.com/snt/news/index.php/mainland-/news/25399-bridge-opening-reconnects-somers-point-ocean-city-.html "Bridge opening reconnects Somers Point, Ocean City "], ''The Current'', May 30, 2012. Accessed July 28, 2014. "The bridge it replaced was named the Howard S. Stainton Memorial Causeway, built in 1933."</ref> the Beesley's Point Bridge was demolished in 2013 as part of a project adding a new bridge for traffic on the Parkway.<ref>Campbell, Braden. [http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/press/cape_may/as-one-bridge-goes-up-one-comes-down-at-beesley/article_2a3efb3f-df83-5543-9ceb-302868426864.html " As one bridge goes up, one comes down at Beesley's Point Contractor balances two jobs at once"], ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', November 6, 2013. Accessed July 28, 2014. "This is the task facing Route 52 Contractors - the same outfit responsible for the new roadway between Somers Point and Ocean City - which earlier this year was awarded a $130 million contract by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority to take down the decaying Beesleys Point Bridge and build a new southbound Garden State Parkway span bridging Somers Point and Upper Township."</ref>

===Public transportation===
[[NJ Transit]] offers bus transportation in the city between [[Ocean City, New Jersey|Ocean City]] and [[Atlantic City, New Jersey|Atlantic City]] on the [[507 (New Jersey bus)|507]] and [[509 (New Jersey bus)|509]] routes.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100223225136/http://www.njtransit.com/sf/sf_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=BusRoutesAtlanticCountyTo Atlantic County Bus / Rail Connections]}}, [[NJ Transit]], backed up by the [[Internet Archive]] as of February 23, 2011. Accessed November 19, 2013.</ref><ref>[http://www.driveless.com/pdfs/SJTG_PDF.pdf#page=3 South Jersey Transit Guide] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929093448/http://www2.driveless.com/pdfs/SJTG_PDF.pdf#page=3 |date=September 29, 2018 }}, Cross County Connection, as of April 1, 2010. Accessed November 19, 2013.</ref>