Interstate 895 (New Jersey-Pennsylvania)

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route=895
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length_mi=6.4
length_round=2
length_ref= [http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/I-895_NJ/ Interstate 895 (NJ-PA, unbulit)] URL accessed 26 September 2008]
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direction_a=South
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direction_b=North
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Interstate 895 was a planned 6.4-mile-long [http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/I-895_NJ/ Interstate 895 (NJ-PA, unbulit)] URL accessed 26 September 2008] Interstate Highway in New Jersey that would have provided a freeway between Interstate 295 near Burlington and Interstate 95 near Bristol, Pennsylvania. This would have completed the partial beltway around Trenton formed by I-95 and I-295. The roadway would also have provided additional capacity crossing the Delaware River near the site of the Burlington-Bristol Bridge. The new crossing was intended to be toll free much like the Scudders Falls Bridge (Interstate 95). The approach roadways on either side of the river would have been maintained by the New Jersey Department of Transportation in New Jersey and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation in Pennsylvania (though at one point the Burlington County Bridge Commission was going to bulid the road in Pennsylvania after the state opposed the road until plans were made for an interchange with I-95). [http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/I-895_NJ/ Interstate 895 (NJ-PA, unbulit)] URL accessed 26 September 2008]

The proposed six lane freeway was meant to have two mainline interchanges (U.S. Route 13 & U.S. Route 130), and the terminus interchanges with I-95 & I-295 at a new Exit 46 [http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/I-895_NJ/ Interstate 895 (NJ-PA, unbulit)] URL accessed 26 September 2008] giving the freeway four total interchanges from start to finish. Once the freeway met I-295, there were plans to extend it as the Route 72 freeway towards Long Beach Island where it would meet the existing Route 72 at Route 70. [http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/NJ-72/ NJ 72 Freeway (unbulit)] URL accessed 26 September 2008]

It was originally planned as an interstate highway in 1968 and scheduled to be finished by 1978 at a cost of $84 million. However, rising costs and desire of funds for mass transit led to the cancellation of I-895 in 1981. [http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/NJ-72/ NJ 72 Freeway (unbulit)] URL accessed 26 September 2008]

Vestiges of the I-895 proposal remain today. The large interchange between Interstate 95 and PA 413 was built to handle the large high speed ramps for I-895. [http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/I-895_NJ/ Interstate 895 (NJ-PA, unbulit)] URL accessed 26 September 2008]

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References

External links

* [http://www.phillyroads.com/roads/I-895_NJ/ PhillyRoads.com: Interstate 895]
* [http://www.kurumi.com/roads/3di/i895.html Kurumi I-895 page]

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