In the early 1960's, the New Jersey State Highway Department proposed a 40-mile-long freeway along the NJ 49 corridor from the Delaware Memorial Bridge (I-295 and US 40) in Deepwater Township east to the NJ 55 Freeway in Millville. The proposed NJ 49 Freeway was to parallel the proposed NJ 60 Freeway through sparsely developed areas in Salem, Cumberland and Cape May counties.

Since the proposed NJ 49 Freeway was less than ten miles south of the proposed NJ 60 Freeway, officials questioned the need for the NJ 49 Freeway. By 1967, the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) had removed the NJ 49 Freeway from its planning maps.

SOURCES: "New Jersey Builds Better Highways," New Jersey State Highway Department (1961); New Jersey Highway Facts, New Jersey Department of Transportation (1967); Brian Polidoro.

• NJ 49 shield by Ralph Herman.
  

NJ 49 FREEWAY LINKS:

• NJ 49 (route log and photos) (Steve Alpert)
  
• NJ 49 (Chris Mason)
  
• NJ 49 Traffic Counts and Straight Line Diagram (New Jersey Department of Transportation)
  

• Delaware Memorial Bridge (I-295 and US 40)
  

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