Editing New Jersey Route 54 (section)

==History==
By 1927, what is now Route 54 was an unnumbered, unpaved road connecting Buena to Hammonton.<ref name=ttmap>{{cite map|title=1927 Tydol Trails Map - South|publisher=Tydol Trails}}</ref> Route 54 was legislated on March 30, 1938, to run from US 30/[[New Jersey Route 43|Route 43]] and US 206/[[New Jersey Route 39|Route 39]] in Hammonton south along Lincoln Avenue to an intersection with Main Road in [[Landis Township, New Jersey|Landis Township]], [[Cumberland County, New Jersey|Cumberland County]] (now a part of [[Vineland, New Jersey|Vineland]]).<ref name="nj54est" /> The only portion of Route 54 that was taken over as a state highway was north of the US 40/[[New Jersey Route 48|Route 48]] intersection in Buena.<ref name="1946quad">{{cite map|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/250k/txu-pclmaps-topo-us-wilmington-1946.jpg|title=Wilmington, Delaware 1:250,000 quadrangle|publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]]|year=1946|access-date=2009-03-28}}</ref>  The portion of Lincoln Avenue south of US 40 remained a county route called CR 25 in Cumberland County and CR 55 and CR 19 in Atlantic County.<ref>{{cite map|publisher=[[Cumberland County, New Jersey]]|title=Road Map County of Cumberland New Jersey|year=1954|url=http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/CUMBERLAND_COUNTY/CumberlandCo_1954.jpg|access-date=2009-08-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite map|publisher=[[Atlantic County, New Jersey]]|title=Road Map of Atlantic County Sheet 6|year=1967|url=http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/Atlantic/AtlanticCoHighway_1967_6.gif|access-date=2009-12-16}}</ref> This road is presently both Cumberland and Atlantic CRs 655 and a part of Atlantic CR 619.<ref name="cumberland655sld">{{cite web|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/06000655__-.pdf|title=Cumberland County 655 straight line diagram|access-date=2009-12-16}}</ref><ref name="atlantic655sld">{{cite web|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/01000655__-.pdf |title=Atlantic County 655 straight line diagram|access-date=2009-12-16}}</ref><ref name="atlantic619sld">{{cite web|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/01000619__-.pdf|title=Atlantic County 619 straight line diagram|access-date=2009-12-16}}</ref> In the [[1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering]], Route 54 was defined onto its current alignment between US 40 in Buena Vista and US 30/US 206 in Hammonton.<ref name="nj1953">{{citation|title=1953 renumbering|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|publisher=New Jersey Department of Highways|access-date=2009-07-31|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628183145/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|archive-date=2011-06-28}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news|access-date=2009-07-20|title=New Road Signs Ready in New Jersey|newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=1952-12-16|url=http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/6933/19521216newroadsignsreaiu6.jpg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721112422/http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/6933/19521216newroadsignsreaiu6.jpg|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref> In the late 1960s, a [[freeway]] was proposed for the US 206/Route 54 corridor, running from US 30 in Hammonton  south to [[New Jersey Route 55|Route 55]] and the proposed [[New Jersey Route 60|Route 60]] near Vineland and [[Millville, New Jersey|Millville]].<ref name=NJDOT1969>{{cite book|title=New Jersey Highway Facts|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation |year=1969}}</ref> The freeway between Vineland/Millville and Hammonton was to cost $47 million and was intended to provide a better route between the two areas than the existing two-lane roads. This proposed freeway was never built due to environmental and financial issues.<ref name=NJDOT1972>{{cite book|title=Master Plan for Transportation|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|year=1972}}</ref>