Palisades
Interstate Parkway: Shortly
after the George Washington Bridge opened in 1931, the Regional Planning
Committee saw an urgent need to promote orderly development and improve
transportation facilities while protecting the Palisades area. To
address the many concerns of residents, the plan recommended a
"Palisades Parkway" between Fort Lee, New Jersey and Bear Mountain, New
York. The cost of land acquisition for the parkway was estimated between
$25 million and $40 million. The "Parkway Plan" recommended that the
powers of the Palisades Interstate Planning Committee be expanded to not
only construction of the parkway, but also to condemning adjacent
properties along the right-of-way for parkland.
The Palisades Interstate Parkway is now a four-lane, 42 mile long
aesthetically pleasing wooded highway, built to freeway standards. The
PIP, extends from the George Washington Bridge at the intersections of
I-95/US, 1-9/US 46 and the end of NJ Route 4 at Fort Lee, New Jersey, to
the Bear Mountain Bridge at US Route 9W and US Route 202 in Fort
Montgomery, New York.
The
Parkway is named for the New Jersey Palisades mountains (actually a line of
cliffs rising along the western side of the Hudson River), and is officially
designated (but not signed) Route 445 in New Jersey.
A
spur that splits from the main road near the south end provides local access
ending at US 9W and NJ 67 is officially designated (but not signed) Route 445S.
Southbound beyond the split, is a local exit to County Road 505. Any traffic
that stays on past that exit must use the George Washington Bridge. This spur,
NJ 445S, is actually the original alignment of the Palisades Interstate Parkway;
what is now the main route was built later.
As
with most ?Parkways? in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, commercial
traffic is prohibited from using the Palisades Interstate Parkway. Consequently,
trucks using US Route 6, also known as the Grand Army Highway, between the Bear
Mountain Bridge and the town of Woodbury must take a ten-mile detour via US
Route 9W and NY 293 around the four-mile stretch of US 6 that runs concurrently
with the Palisades Interstate Parkway and the Long Mountain Parkway.
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