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Route 18 is a State Highway in New Jersey , United States . Its southern terminus is at Wall Township, New Jersey at Route 138 ; its northern terminus is at Hoes Lane (Hoes Lane Extension) in Piscataway, New Jersey . It has been recently extended north from where it originally ended at River Road. The new freeway connects to the older section to form one long limited access highway through the Rutgers Campus and Downtown New Brunswick area. The new construction to improve Route 18 from U.S. Route 1 to Route 27 and will be an express/local lane set up, keeping the highway limited access for quite some time. Eventually the existing northern terminus will be pushed further north to meet Interstate 287 in Piscataway, but will most likely only be a surface boulevard with traffic signals instead. The NJDOT has had plans to extend the southern terminus to the Brielle Circle where it would have been a massive interchange between 5 major state highways. Plans are in place to use the Right of Way that NJDOT owns to make a bike path, which in its own way prevents that land from being developed, but it shows that the state is not actively pursuing the southern extension at this time. However, as traffic in the southern Monmouth County region continues to grow, NJ may revive plans for Route 18 sooner then some would believe. Before the southern freeway of Route 18 from Exit 6 to Exit 11 was actually called "Route 18" it was in fact Route 35 since it was to bypass the existing road through Belmar and Neptune. When plans for that freeway began to fall through, the state linked Route 18 from Old Bridge to Eatontown with the already built section that was to be Route 35 . Some maps actually showed this designation for a very brief time... This is why when looking at a map, Route 18 makes a sharp "S" curve and for several miles travels east-west more then it does north-south. Route 18 is essentially two highways made into one because the state didn't push harder for the unbuilt sections. Route 18 is the second longest state route freeway in NJ at 25.5 miles, right behind Route 55 . Prior to the 1953 Renumbering , Route 18 was Route S28. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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