Editing New Jersey Route 3 (section)

==History==
[[File:New York, New York 1955 Yellow Book.jpg|thumb|left|1955 [[Yellow Book (Interstate system)|Yellow Book]] map of New York City, showing a planned [[Interstate Highway]] along the Route&nbsp;3 corridor.]]Route&nbsp;3 roughly follows the course of the Paterson and New York Plank Road (more commonly known as the [[Paterson Plank Road]]) legislated in 1851 to run from Paterson to a ferry at Hoboken. The portion of this road running east from Passaic was legislated as an unnumbered state route in 1926. In the [[1927 New Jersey state highway renumbering]], Route&nbsp;3 was legislated to run from the [[New York (state)|New York]] line on the west shore of [[Greenwood Lake]] to [[New Jersey Route 1|Route&nbsp;1]] (now [[U.S. Route 1/9|US&nbsp;1/9]]) in [[Secaucus, New Jersey|Secaucus]].<ref name=nj1927>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1927, Chapter 319.</ref><ref name="Map">{{cite map|url=http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/images/1927_routes.gif|title=1927 New Jersey Road Map|publisher=State of New Jersey|access-date=October 8, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031111034/http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/images/1927_routes.gif|archive-date=October 31, 2007}}</ref> In 1929, the route west of Paterson was designated to become part of [[New Jersey Route S4B|Route&nbsp;S4B]], a spur of [[New Jersey Route 4|Route&nbsp;4]], and Route&nbsp;3 was modified to end at Route&nbsp;S4B north of Paterson. Route&nbsp;S4B was never built west of Paterson while the portion that was built became [[New Jersey Route 208|Route&nbsp;208]] in 1953.<ref name=nj1929>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1929, Chapter 126.</ref><ref name="nj1953">{{Cite web|title=1953 renumbering|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|publisher=New Jersey Department of Highways|access-date=July 31, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628183145/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|archive-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref>

Following the 1929 amendments, Route&nbsp;3 ran from [[Paterson, New Jersey|Paterson]] along today's [[New Jersey Route 20|Route&nbsp;20]], through [[Clifton, New Jersey|Clifton]], [[Passaic, New Jersey|Passaic]], [[Wallington, New Jersey|Wallington]], [[Carlstadt, New Jersey|Carlstadt]], and East Rutherford along local streets, and finally down [[Paterson Plank Road]] (part of which is today's [[New Jersey Route 120|Route&nbsp;120]]) to Secaucus.<ref name=ruhc>{{cite map|author=Rutgers University Cartography Services |publisher=[[Rutgers University]]|title=Map of Passaic County N.J.|year=1936|url=http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/PASSAIC_COUNTY/PassaicCo1936.gif|access-date=March 28, 2009}}</ref><ref name=ruhc2>{{cite map|author=Rutgers University Cartography Services |publisher=[[Rutgers University]]|title=Map of Bergen County New Jersey|year=1949|url=http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/BERGEN_COUNTY/BergenCounty_1949.gif|access-date=March 30, 2009}}</ref> Before 1938, a bypass around the original Paterson Plank Road bridge over the Hackensack River was built, parts of which were later incorporated into today's [[New Jersey Route 120|Route&nbsp;120]]. As of this point, plans were in place to bypass the Plank Road to the north, going north of Wood Ridge and Wallington and replacing River Road up to Route 6, where it would rejoin the old alignment.<ref>{{Cite map|title=Map of Bergen County, N.J.|date=January 1938|url=http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/BERGEN_COUNTY/BergenCounty_1938.gif|author=McClave, Roscoe Parke}}</ref> In 1939, Route&nbsp;3 was extended east along present-day [[New Jersey Route 495|Route&nbsp;495]] to the [[Lincoln Tunnel]] into [[Manhattan]].<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/06/30/archives/approach-to-open-for-lincoln-tube-new-jerseys-latest-highway-which.html|title=Approach to Open for Lincoln Tube: New Jersey's Latest Highway Which Will be Opened Today|page=6|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 30, 1939|access-date=October 11, 2013}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
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The section of what is now Route&nbsp;3 from [[U.S. Route 46|US&nbsp;46]] in Clifton to Route&nbsp;120 in [[East Rutherford, New Jersey|East Rutherford]] was planned to be built as a [[Controlled-access highway|freeway]] in the mid-1930s designated as Route S3, a spur of Route&nbsp;3. Construction started in 1940, but it was interrupted by [[World War II]].<ref name=nyt2/> It would resume, with the first section of freeway opening between [[New Jersey Route 17|Route&nbsp;17]] to Route&nbsp;3 (now Route&nbsp;120) in 1942. The freeway was completed by 1949, including a bypass of Secaucus that was designated as a bypass of Route 3. The freeway had cost a total of $10 million to build and cut commuting times between Northern New Jersey and Manhattan.<ref name=nyt73149>{{cite news|title=Secaucus Road To Open: Jersey's New By-Pass Will Cut Commuting Time of Thousands |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/07/31/archives/secaucus-road-to-open-jerseys-new-bypass-will-cut-commuting-time-of.html |page=17 |work=The New York Times|date=July 31, 1949|access-date=October 11, 2013}} {{subscription required}}</ref> Before the freeway was completed, Route&nbsp;S3 was designated to follow Allwood Road between Hepburn Road and Bloomfield Avenue in Clifton; the road was later returned to Passaic County and is currently CR&nbsp;602.<ref name=nyt2>{{cite news |first=George M. |last=Mathieu |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/08/10/archives/to-aid-users-of-tunnel-road-work-in-new-jersey-also-will-cut-time.html |title=To Aid Users of Tunnel: Road Work in New Jersey Also Will Cut Time to the Bridge|work=The New York Times |page=XX5 |date=August 10, 1941|access-date=October 11, 2013}} {{subscription required}}</ref> In 1942, a spur of Route&nbsp;S3 in Clifton was commissioned; this became [[New Jersey Route S3 Spur|Route S3 Spur]] in 1948 and [[New Jersey Route 161|Route 161]] in 1953.<ref name=nj1953/><ref name=nj1942>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1942, Chapter 77.</ref><ref name=nj1948>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1948, Chapter 221.</ref>

In the [[1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering]], Route&nbsp;3 was realigned to follow the entire length of the Route&nbsp;S3 freeway. In addition, Route&nbsp;3 in Secaucus was shifted off the Paterson Plank Road to the newly built Secaucus Bypass. The original alignment of Route&nbsp;3 through Secaucus (partly now known as Flanagan Way) became '''Route&nbsp;153'''; the entire route was eliminated by the late 1980s.<ref name=Hud1965>{{cite map|author=Rutgers University Cartography Services |publisher=[[Rutgers University]]|title=Hudson County Road Map – Sheet 2|year=1965|url=http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/HUDSON_COUNTY/HudsonCountyHighway_2_1965.gif|access-date=April 5, 2022}}</ref><ref name="statefarm">{{cite map|publisher=[[State Farm Insurance]]|title= State Farm Road Atlas |year=1983|cartography=[[Rand McNally]]}}</ref> The remaining sections under state maintenance were designated as [[New Jersey Route 20|Route&nbsp;20]], still under the assumption that they would be joined in the future. In the mid-1950s, Route&nbsp;3 was planned as one of the original routes of the [[Interstate Highway System]]; however, the [[New Jersey State Highway Department]] had deemed it too expensive to bring it up to [[Interstate Highway standards]] and [[Interstate 280 (New Jersey)|I-280]] was favored instead.<ref name=njshd>{{cite book|title= FAI 105 Interstate Highway Corridor: Recommendation Report|publisher=[[New Jersey State Highway Department]] |year=1957}}</ref> In 1959, the Lincoln Tunnel approach was designated as [[New Jersey Route 495|I-495]] and Route&nbsp;3 was truncated back to US&nbsp;1/9 in [[North Bergen, New Jersey|North Bergen]].<ref name=nyt91958>{{cite news|last=Wright|first=George Cable|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/09/19/archives/new-roads-with-new-numbers-will-parallel-old-us-routes.html|title=New Roads with New Numbers Will Parallel Old U.S. Routes|page=29|work=The New York Times|date=September 19, 1958|access-date=October 11, 2013}} {{subscription required}}</ref><ref name="sld 2006">{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/00000495__-.pdf|title=Route 495 Straight Line Diagram|work=Internet Archives WayBack Machine|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|year=2006|access-date=May 11, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060321122259/http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/00000495__-.pdf |archive-date = March 21, 2006}}</ref>

[[File:2020-07-24 17 45 20 View north along U.S. Route 1 and U.S. Route 9 (Tonnelle Avenue) at the exit for New Jersey Route 3 WEST (TO New Jersey Turnpike-New Jersey Route 495 EAST, Clifton, Lincoln Tunnel) in North Bergen Township, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|East end of Route&nbsp;3 at US&nbsp;1/9 in North Bergen]]
Many improvements have been made to the Route&nbsp;3 freeway. In the 1970s, the interchanges with [[New Jersey Route 17|Route&nbsp;17]], the [[New Jersey Turnpike]] Western Spur, and Route&nbsp;120 were improved with the construction of the [[Meadowlands Sports Complex]] in the area. The bridge over the [[Berrys Creek]], originally built in 1948, was reconstructed in the mid-1990s and Route&nbsp;3 was widened to eight lanes in the area near the bridge.<ref name=njdotpassaic>{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/roads/rt3/updates.shtm|title=Route 3 Passaic River Crossing Project – Construction Updates|publisher=[[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]|access-date=April 2, 2012}}</ref> In 2003, the interchange with Route 495 and the intersection with US&nbsp;1/9 was improved at a cost of $16 million.<ref name="njdot2001">{{cite book|title=Route 3: Passaic River Crossing|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|year=2001}}</ref>

Plans were made to improve Route&nbsp;3 near the Meadowlands Sports Complex with the construction of the [[American Dream Meadowlands|American Dream]] shopping and entertainment complex. An overpass between eastbound Route&nbsp;3 and northbound [[New Jersey Route 120|Route&nbsp;120]] was completed in May 2009 at a cost of $38.1 million, a flyover from southbound Route&nbsp;120 to eastbound Route&nbsp;3 was completed in early 2010 at a cost of $13 million, and improvements to the New Jersey Turnpike interchange was completed in the later part of 2010 at a cost of $49 million.<ref name=bcr>{{cite news|last=Brennan |first=John |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-164143908.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013134959/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-164143908.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 13, 2013 |title=Newstracker: Road, rail improvements on track for Xanadu project |work=[[The Record (Bergen County)|The Record]] |publisher=Highbeam Research |date=May 1, 2009 |access-date=October 11, 2013}} {{Subscription required}}</ref><ref name=bcr2>{{cite news |last=Brennan |first=John |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-164143908.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013134959/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-164143908.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 13, 2013 |title=Finally on Track: Sports complex rail, roads racing to the finish line |work=The Record |publisher=vLex |date=November 17, 2008 |access-date=October 11, 2013}} {{Subscription required}}</ref>

Route&nbsp;3 underwent a major reconstruction to modern highway standards with noise walls installed and bridge replacements, including the new [[Passaic River]] bridge that is now functional, between Main Avenue in Clifton and Route&nbsp;17 in [[Rutherford, New Jersey|Rutherford]]. All work was completed by 2016.<ref name=njdot5>{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/works/studies/rt3/overview.shtm|title=Route 3 Passaic River Crossing|publisher=[[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]| access-date=November 17, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071223053247/http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/works/studies/rt3/overview.shtm |archive-date = December 23, 2007}}</ref> In a separate project, the roadway was resurfaced in 2013 from just west of the Route&nbsp;17 north interchange to [[U.S. Route 1/9|US&nbsp;1/9]] in [[North Bergen, New Jersey|North Bergen]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Stein|first=Ron|title=Feds announce $8.6 million project to resurface four miles of Route&nbsp;3 in Secaucus, North Bergen |work=The Jersey Journal|date=March 18, 2013|url=http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2013/03/feds_announce_86_million_proje.html|access-date=October 10, 2013}}</ref>

The New Jersey Department of Transportation is rebuilding the interchange at US&nbsp;46 and Valley Road in [[Clifton, New Jersey|Clifton]]. This project will reconfigure ramps, bring bridges up to standard, and will provide for three-lane connections between Route&nbsp;3 and US&nbsp;46. It is projected to cost more than $250&nbsp;million. Construction on the first contract began in December 2015 with completion by October 2019. Construction on the second contract began in February 2020.<ref name=njdot>{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/works/studies/rt46/|title=Route 46/Route 3/Valley Road and Notch Road Interchanges|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|access-date=November 17, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.gov/transportation/commuter/roads/rt46/faq.shtm|title=Route 46/Route 3/Valley Road and Notch Road Interchanges - Frequently Asked Questions|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|access-date=October 31, 2020}}</ref> In January 2022, the officials announced funding of a project to replace the 1934 eastbound bridge over the Hackensack River. The new bridge structure will be able to support adding [[light rail]] over the bridge in the future. The plan is to have a new light rail line from [[Secaucus Junction]] to [[MetLife Stadium]] and [[American Dream Meadowlands|American Dream]], but funding for the light rail is not immediately available.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Maher |first1=Jake |title=Pols announce $143 million Route 3 bridge over Hackensack River and talk of light rail, too |url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/01/pols-announce-143-million-route-3-bridge-over-hackensack-river-and-talk-of-light-rail-too.html |access-date=27 January 2022 |work=The Jersey Journal |issue=25 January 2022}}</ref>