Airport Circle (Pennsauken)
- Airport Circle (Pennsauken)
The Airport Circle is a traffic circle in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey, United States. It is located at the intersection of Route 70, Route 38, U.S. Route 30, and U.S. Route 130, close to the Camden border. Built in 1925, it is New Jersey's first traffic circle. [ [http://courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060729/SPECIAL17/607300332 "Circles slow to roll off South Jersey roadways"] by Jim Walsh, "The Courier-Post", July 29, 2006, retrieved September 23, 2006.] The circle opened to traffic on July 1, 1927, as the first such traffic rotary in the United States. [Kane, Joseph Nathan. "Famous First Facts", H.W. Wilson Company, 2006 (ISBN 0-8242-1065-4), p. 222.] South of the circle, Route 30 and Route 130 run concurrent until they reach the Collingswood Circle in Collingswood.
It is named for the former Camden Central Airport, a small airport that operated in this vicinity between 1929 and 1957 [ [http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NJ/Airfields_NJ_Camden.html#camdencentral Abandoned and little-known Airfields: New Jersey: Camden Area] . Revised September 10, 2004, retrieved April 8, 2007.] .
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* [http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061019/SPECIAL20/610190426/-1/special20 Pennsauken: Centuries of growth] , "The Courier-Post", October 19, 2006
ee also
*List of traffic circles in New Jersey
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