Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-02-09
Great Roadway
Through Palisade
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through Little Ferry to Hackensack
along Essex street to Paterson. 1t
will make an ideal route, and give the
best grades that could be obtained. 1t
probably will be complete this year,
or the greater part of it."
Mr.. McClave said the road would
be constructed of the best material
probably of cement, and down the Pal
isades of cement base with brick sur
face. A wire from Trenton Tuesday
spoke of this enterprise as follows
In the opinion of road experts a
stretch of road from Fort Lee Ferry
to Anderson avenue, in Bergen Coun-
ty, which the New Jersey State High
an estimate cost of $4,000, will be
worth millions of dollars to the feder-
al government as a necessary link in
an unbroken chain of communication
between important munition plants
located in various states and points
of shipment of supplies.
This piece of road way, known as
"Route TO-" in the highway commits
sion's plan for 1918 constructions
will be the shortest in the years pro-
gramme, but will be the most diff
cult to construct. Part of a cliff will
have to be cut away and heavy re-
tanning walls constructed. 1t will be
sufficiently wide to accommodate the
large motor truck traffic which it will
be called upon to bear and the elimi-
nation of sharp turns and grades
will result, it is hoped, in preventing
a recurrence of the fatal accidents
which have marked the present road.
The situation at the ferry was person.
ally inspected by Major General
dation were followed in designing the
the route.
Owing to the hopelessness Of the
present circuitous route, the commits
sion decided that the most feasible
way for traffic to and from the river
to the top of the Palisades, some 300
feet above, was to construct an en-
tirely new roadway winding up along
the face of the cliffs.
The contemplated improvement be-
gins at Edgewater ferry, which con-
meets directly with 125th street, New
York City. The road will extend up
the Palisades on easy grades of ap-
proximately 6 per cent, connecting
at the top with Anderson avenue, a
well-paved country road just west of
the Palisades Amusement Park. All
feeders to Anderson avenue lead di-
rectly to the populous cities of Ho-
boken, Bayonne, and Jersey City, and
thence to Newark. Connection may
also be made through to the New
York state highway system to Tux
edo, West Point, and such points. The
traveller going northwest to Hacken-
sack and Paterson may branch off on
all-paved feeders allowing continuous
travel connections to routes Nos. and
II of the New Jersey highway sys-
tenn. These two latter routes trav-
erse the manufacturing centres of the
northwest and link up with the Penn
sylvania state highways.
The proposed improvement to Route
No. 10 will afford an outlet for motor
truck traffic from the powder plants
at Pompton, the silk mills at Pater-
son, and other neighboring and kin,
dred industries, and relieve motor
truck traffic to and from the federal
cantonment at Tenafly.
Munition factories on Long Island
Sound and naval station will be
made more accessibles by means of
this road, as six or seven miles of
city travel through New York City
will have been eliminated