page_title: New Jersey Route 440
section_title: Hudson County
hierarchical_section_title: New Jersey Route 440 / Route description / Hudson County
caption_attribution_description: English: Cropped version.
context_page_description: Route 440 is a state highway in New Jersey, United States. It comprises two segments, a 5.15-mile freeway in Middlesex County linking Interstate 287 and the New Jersey Turnpike in Edison to the Outerbridge Crossing in Perth Amboy and a 8.18-mile four-lane divided highway in Hudson County running from the Bayonne Bridge in Bayonne to U.S. Route 1/9 Truck in Jersey City. These two segments are connected by New York State Route 440, which runs across Staten Island. The freeway portion in Middlesex County is six lanes wide and interchanges with the Garden State Parkway and U.S. Route 9 in Woodbridge.
  What is now Route 440 was designated as two different routes in 1927: the Middlesex County portion between Route 4 and the proposed Outerbridge Crossing was designated Route S4 while the Hudson County portion was designated as a part of Route 1. In 1953, Route 440 replaced Route S4 as well as Route 1 south of Communipaw Avenue; the number was chosen to match NY 440. A freeway was built for the route in Middlesex County between 1967 and finished in 1972.
context_section_description: After New York State Route 440 runs 12.73 mi (20.49 km) through Staten Island, it enters New Jersey again via the Bayonne Bridge, a four-lane undivided bridge over Kill Van Kull that is also maintained by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Upon entering Bayonne in Hudson County, the road becomes the northern segment of Route 440 and County Route 501 and continues north into residential sections of the city. After widening into a divided highway maintained by the NJDOT, County Route 501 splits from the route by heading north on Kennedy Boulevard at an interchange. Meanwhile, Route 440 turns to the east, with Conrail Shared Assets Operations' Avenue A Industrial Track and NJ Transit's Hudson–Bergen Light Rail line parallel to the north,  before heading northeast and passing through industrial areas as a surface road, crossing under a Conrail Shared Assets Operations railroad line. It heads north-northeast as it passes between neighborhoods and the parallel Conrail Shared Assets Operations' Bayonne Industrial Track and NJ Transit's Hudson–Bergen Light Rail lines to the west and port areas to the east, including the former Military Ocean Terminal.
  The route crosses into Jersey City, where it comes to an interchange with the Newark Bay Extension of the New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 78) that provides access to the Jersey City and Hoboken waterfronts and the Holland Tunnel. Following this, Route 440 reaches an interchange with Route 185. Here, the mainline becomes Route 185 and Route 440 exits onto another four-lane divided highway. From here, Route 440 continues northwest, crossing under Interstate 78 and passing over Conrail Shared Assets Operations' Bayonne Industrial Track and NJ Transit's Hudson–Bergen Light Rail lines before closely paralleling the north side of Interstate 78 and the south side of Conrail Shared Assets Operations' National Docks Branch line. The route interchanges with Avenue C before becoming an undivided road that reenters Bayonne and crossing over County Route 501 (Kennedy Boulevard) without an interchange. Past this intersection, Route 440 makes a sharp turn to the south and passes under the Newark Bay Bridge (Interstate 78). After making a hairpin turn back to the north, it passes under the Newark Bay Bridge another time and runs along the eastern shore of Newark Bay, crossing under Conrail Shared Assets Operations' National Docks Branch line. The route interchanges with West 63rd Street before crossing back into Jersey City and passing residences to the east. It intersects County Route 602 (Danforth Avenue) as the road heads into business sectors farther to the east of Newark Bay. The road heads past industrial establishments before running through commercial areas again, passing to the east of the Hudson Mall. Route 440 ends at an intersection with U.S. Route 1/9 Truck and County Route 612 (Communipaw Avenue), where the road continues north as part of U.S. Route 1/9 Truck.
caption: Route 440 in northern Bayonne
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