Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-12-05
HIGHWAY PROGRAM
Is OUTLINED WITH
GOVERNOR SILzER
Advisory Committee Recon-
mendS New Approach to
Bridge in Perth Amboy
WOULD COST $780, 900
Project Includes Widening
Road from New State
Bridge to Morgan

TRENTON, Dec. Sin order that
New Jersey may adequately cope
with serious traffic problems in con-
nection with the Hudson tunnel, the
Camden-P Philadelphia bridge and the
northern and southern Jersey shore
routes, the State Highway Commits
sion yesterday presented to Governor
Sllzer and the legislature a report
advocating program of construc-
tion which will successfully elimin-
ate traffic congestion at the points
indicated for many years to come.
The highway commission declared
that the tunnel and the bridge,
when completed in a couple of years
will present traffic difficulties which
are now but barely realized and
that at the present time the conges-
ton of automobile travel at Key
port and Perth Anboy on the north
.ern shore and on the White Horse
pike in southern Jersey makes rem
edial measures available.
The road board declared that the
matter was one to be solved only by;
legislation.
The commission presented three
plans TO the governor and the legis-
lature, any one of which is designed
to help solve the problem.
The first plan presented was to
continue the construction of high
way routes designed by the legisIa-
ture up to and including the year
1922. as far as funds are available.
Secondly, to proceed with such
work on existing routes as is abso-
lutely necessary and to proceed with
such work as is necessary to give
Immediate relief in the traffic prob
lens of the tunnel, the bridge and
the shore routes.
The third plan presented by the
commission is to complete the en-
tire highway construction program
up to and including the year 1922
and also to complete the entire pro-
gram of relief to the tunnel the
bridge and the shore routes.
Because the first plan would af-
ford no relief to the traffic coudi-
tions incident to the tunnel and the
bridge and the third plan was too
costly, the commission declared ii
favored the second scheme, which
is in effect a middle course endeav-
oring to keep up the building of or
dinary state highways and to solve
the tunnel and bridge traffic problem
as well.
With regard to specific construc-
ton for relief of traffic at the Hud-
son tunnel, the commission present.
ed a plan evolved by the advisory
committee studying traffic at this
point, the committee being made up
of technical men. To care for the
traffic at this point it was recon-
mpnHpn thnt Ii srrI
wide approach the tunnel through
Jersey City and that no parking on
the highway be permitted. This
highway would widen out to sixty
teet in places according to the plan.
The road would be so Constructed
as not to have any grade crossings
over it, with a minimum of grade
crossings on intersecting highways.
The advisory committee also recom-
mended that the Hackensack and
Passaic rivers be crossed by means
of tunnels. A highway would also
be constructed around Newark, with
possible extension of the whole
road beyond the City of Elizabeth.
The whole project of the road
from the mouth of the tunnel.
through Jersey City to a point be-
yond Elizabeth where it would con-
meet with existing highway routes fs
estimated to cost about 5000, 900.
The essential work of constructing
a highway through Jersey City and
around the congested portions OF
Newark could be done for about
$10.000,00O.
1t is estimated that upon the COM
pletion of the Hudson tunnel there
will be $500 vehicles an hour pass
upon the highway at that point. The
highway commission declared that
this density of traffic is not exceeded
anywhere in the United States.
The advisory committee for the
Camden bridge estimated tina. upon
its completion the structure Will
have a capacity of 5000 vehicles
pass over it in an hour.
After a study of shore traffic the
advisory committee in charge, re-
ported to the highway commission
that the points of most serious COM
gestion are Perth Amboy and Key
pert, due to the fact that traffic =
carried over narrow pavements, ana
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