Newark Bay Bridge

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Main other{{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters|check|unknown=Template:Main other|preview=Page using Template:Infobox bridge with unknown parameter "_VALUE_"|ignoreblank=y|mapframe_args=y| also_known_as | alt | aqueduct_name | architect | begin | below | bridge_name | builder | built | capacity | caption | carries | child | clearance | clearance_above | clearance_below | closed | collapsed | complete | contracted_designer | coord_format | coordinates | cost | crosses | dedicated | demolished | depth | design | designer | destroyed | diameter | downstream | electrification | embed | embedded | ends | engineering | extra | fabricator | fetchwikidata | first_diameter | first_length | followed | gauge | height | heritage | id | id_type | image | image_caption | image_size | image_upright | inaugurated | lanes | length | life | load | locale | location | mainspan | maint | maintained | material | material1 | material2 | name | named_for | native_name | native_name_lang | notrack | num_track | number_spans | official_name | onlysourced | open | opened | opening | os_grid_reference | other_name | owner | passable | piers_in_water | pierswater | preceded | qid | rebuilt | references | replaced_by | replaces | second_diameter | second_length | spans | starts | structure_gauge | third_diameter | third_length | toll | towpath | track_gauge | traffic | traversable | upstream | website | width | winner }}Template:Main other The Newark Bay Bridge, officially the Vincent R. Casciano Memorial Bridge, is a steel through arch bridge<ref>NYCRoads.com, Bayonne-Port Newark Bridge</ref> that is continuous across three spans. It crosses Newark Bay and connects the cities of Newark (in Essex County) and Bayonne (in Hudson County) in New Jersey, United States. It was completed April 4, 1956, as part of the New Jersey Turnpike's Newark Bay (Hudson County) Extension, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Governor of New Jersey Robert B. Meyner.<ref>"NEWARK BAY BRIDGE ON TURNPIKE OPENS", The New York Times abstract, April 5, 1956. Accessed October 7, 2007. "Gov. Robert B. Meyner cut a ribbon to open a two-mile bridge over the Newark Bay between Hudson and Essex Counties today."</ref>

The main span is Template:Convert, with a Template:Convert clearance over water to allow marine access to Port Newark. The bridge is similar in design to the Delaware River–Turnpike Toll Bridge, and was similar in length to the Francis Scott Key Bridge at Baltimore's Outer Harbor. It runs parallel to the earlier built Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway's Upper Bay Bridge.

This bridge is also known as "The Turnpike Bridge" and "The Turnpike Extension Bridge". It carries traffic on a toll regulated section of Interstate 78 along the New Jersey Turnpike to interchanges 14 through 14A. It provides access from the New Jersey Turnpike's main roadway to Hudson County, New Jersey and the Holland Tunnel. The turnpike route creates the border between Bayonne and Jersey City and then runs northward along Port Jersey, Liberty State Park, and Downtown Jersey City. Hoboken is just north of the entrance to Holland Tunnel which continues to Lower Manhattan in New York City.

From March 2014 until May 2019, during certain hours, the eastbound shoulder of the Turnpike Extension (including the bridge) was opened for normal traffic (by green arrows above, instead of red Xs), for a total of 5 lanes (3 eastbound, 2 westbound).<ref name="Higgs-2015-05-28">Template:Cite news</ref> This system was discontinued on May 20, 2019.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

There is a long-term capital improvements project to build a new bridge.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

• The bridge at night
  The bridge at night
• Under the bridge
  Under the bridge
• Aerial view with the Upper Bay Bridge in the foreground
  Aerial view with the Upper Bay Bridge in the foreground
• Aerial view of the bridge approach in 2023
  Aerial view of the bridge approach in 2023
• Head west, approaching the main span across the deck
  Head west, approaching the main span across the deck

See also

• List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey
• CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge

References

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External links

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• Newark Bay Bridge Historic Overview