New Jersey Route 85
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| Hoboken Freeway | ||||
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| Maintained by NJDOT | ||||
| Length: | 7.6 mi (12.2 km) | |||
| Existed: | September 1956 – 1970s (never built) | |||
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  I-78 / N.J. Turnpike in Jersey City
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 US 1-9 in Jersey City I-495 in North Bergen
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 I-80 / N.J. Turnpike in Fort Lee
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| Counties: | Hudson, Bergen | |||
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New Jersey State Highway Routes
Route 85, also known as the Hoboken Freeway, was a proposed 7.60-mile (12.23 km) long limited-access highway in Hudson County and Bergen County, New Jersey. The freeway was planned to begin at an interchange with Interstate 78 near the Holland Tunnel approach in Jersey City, northward through North Bergen on its way to Fort Lee, where the highway would interchange with Interstate 80 near the George Washington Bridge.
The original plans for the Hoboken Freeway date to September 1956, when the New Jersey State Highway Department, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey came to an agreement of a 2.20-mile (3.54 km) long freeway from Interstate 78 to the Lincoln Tunnel approach. The route's northern terminus would be near the Port Authority's piers in North Bergen. The proposal was given an attempt for interstate highway designation in 1957, which was denied by the Federal Highway Administration. The $9 million (USD) freeway proposal was advocated for several years by several agencies, and in 1966, two of these, the Regional Plan Association and the Tri-State Transportation Commission put forward an extension northward to the George Washington Bridge approach in Fort Lee.
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