Editing New Jersey Route 71 (section)

==History==
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|location= [[Brielle, New Jersey|Brielle]]–[[Eatontown, New Jersey|Eatontown]]
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|formed=1927<ref name="1927map" />
|deleted=1953<ref name="nj1953" />
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From Long Branch to Deal Lake, the road was maintained as part of the '''Long Branch and Deal Turnpike''', which also stretched north along Norwood Avenue and Branchport Avenue. Route&nbsp;71 originates as part of the Jersey Coast Way, an auto trail running from the Staten Island Ferry to Cape May. This was later an alignment of [[New Jersey Route 4 (pre-1927)|State Highway Route&nbsp;4]] in the 1920s, which ran from [[Absecon, New Jersey|Absecon]] in Atlantic County northward to [[Rahway, New Jersey|Rahway]] in Union County.<ref name="1927map">{{cite map|url=http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/route05.htm|title=Sketch Map Showing Approximate Locations of State Highway Routes|publisher=New Jersey Highway Department|year=1927|access-date=June 23, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927231253/http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/route05.htm|archive-date=September 27, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Route&nbsp;4 remained intact through the [[1927 renumbering (New Jersey)|1927 state highway renumbering]], when Route&nbsp;4 was realigned onto the current alignment of Route&nbsp;35 most of its length.<ref name=nj1927>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1927, Chapter 319.</ref> The older alignment from Belmar to Eatontown was re-designated as State Highway Route 4&nbsp;N by the [[New Jersey State Highway Department]]. Route&nbsp;4-N was one of four routes that used the -N suffix from the original numbering.<ref name="27law">ROUTE No. 4—NORTH (1917).  EATONTOWN TO BELMAR, via Long Branch, Asbury Park and Bradley Beach.</ref> Route&nbsp;35 was designated on the southern portion, but this got reversed, allowing the designation to be extended to Brielle. The highway department originally planned for maintenance of this section to revert to local maintenance, but years of campaigning by locals prompted the highway department to restore the state highway in 1931.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1931-01-21 |title=Route 4 Taken Back By State Highway Board |pages=1 |work=Asbury Park Press |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107968212/route-4-taken-back-by-state-highway/ |access-date=2022-08-20}}</ref> The route remained intact for the next 22&nbsp;years, until the second state highway renumbering in 1953. Route&nbsp;35 remained on its basic alignment, but State Highway Route&nbsp;4-N was renumbered to Route&nbsp;71.<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=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|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Route 71 has remained virtually unchanged since the 1953 renumbering in terms of its alignment from Brielle to Eatontown.<ref name="2007map">{{cite map|title=New Jersey Official Road Map|year=2007|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation|author=New Jersey Department of Transportation}}</ref> During the time of the proposed Route&nbsp;33 Freeway from Trenton to Neptune, the intersection with Route&nbsp;33 in Neptune was to be upgraded to a grade-separated interchange, but this portion was never built after being canned in 1967.<ref name="1966plan">{{cite book|year=1966|title=Transportation 1985: A Regional Plan|publisher=Tri-State Transportation Commission}}</ref><ref name="1967plan">{{cite book|year=1967|title=New Jersey Highway Facts|publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation}}</ref>