Talk:New Jersey Route 28

Western terminus was farther west, even after 1953. Changed by state law sometime later.
A lot of work obviously went into this page. However, I think there is one flaw, and that is the history of the western terminus of the highway. It didn't always end at Route 22 where Easton Turnpike goes under the underpass, in Bridgewater Township. In fact, until sometime in the late 20th or early 21st centuries, the terminus was in Branchburg Township, where Easton Turnpike again meets Route 22. Whatever the designation changes were in 1953, Route 28 continued on well into Branchburg Township, New Jersey.

The only handy evidence I have for this is a Rutgers University map of my hometown of Bridgewater, New Jersey, from the year 1965, which clearly shows State Route 28 as something designated as such well past Route 22 underpass, and into North Branch in Branchburg. Here is the link: http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/SOMERSET_COUNTY/Bridgewater_1965.jpg

The speed limit on the Bridgewater-Branchburg stretch of Route 28 was 50 miles an hour for many years. Sometime in the late 80s or early 90s, there was an especially sorrowful traffic accident by the North Branch General Store, which is on the Branchburg side of the river. The municipality was not able to lower the speed limit because of the state highway status, and so the local assemblymen or senators had a bill introduced in Trenton to move the end of Route 28 into Bridgewater, and have the stretch designated as "County Route 614". Now, the speed limit in that location is 25 mph, which is what it should have been, given development of that township from the 1960s on. The potential for tragedy was always there.

Locals (who aren't as local as they think) will remark about several legacy signs indicating that stretch as Route 28. Also, that any number of businesses and residences along Route 614 are now incorrectly identified as Route 28--even on internet searches. These aren't the mistakes of lazy or misinformed people, "that don't know where the highway ends". A mapmaker in 1965, giving every detail, certainly is going to know there is a County 614 or where Route 28 ends. There was no County 614 there until relatively recently, for reasons the community should not forget. Hoofin (talk) 01:09, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Other evidence of later de-designation of Route 28 in Branchburg Township
The present day Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg began as Somerset County College in 1965, and moved to its current location in the late 1960s, with its address routinely given as "Route 28 and Lamington Road". In internet searches for Somerset County College and Route 28 and Lamington Road, there will be a number of New York Times archive cites to events in years throughout the 1970s and 1980s, (until 1987 when the college changed its name to Raritan Valley), to the college as located at Route 28 and Lamington Road, occasionally referencing access off Route 78 to the north (not the Somerville Circle or Route 22 to the east).

It is highly unlikely that the community college would refer to itself and have its events published in major newspapers with a clear flaw in its address for so many years.Hoofin (talk) 13:41, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Branchburg Township refers to County Route 614 as "old Route 28" in master plan document
"Traffic and safety along the Rt. 22 corridor and Rt. 614 (old Rt. 28) was also voiced as a priority issue. Residents in the vicinity of Rt. 22 must navigate their vehicles through uncontrolled intersections with complicated turning lanes to cross or merge into this busy four lane highway." http://branchburg.nj.us/document_center/PlanningZoning/2011_Master_Plan.pdf Hoofin (talk) 13:48, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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