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The Great Egg Harbor Bridge is a series of four bridges along the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, with tolls collected in the southbound direction. It crosses the Great Egg Harbor Bay, connecting Upper Township, in Cape May County to Somers Point in Atlantic County. The bridge crosses over a section of Egg Harbor Township, and Drag
Map of Great Egg Harbor Bay, surrounding waterways, and nearby towns. At the head of the Great Egg Harbor Bay, the Great Egg Harbor River joins the Middle and Tuckahoe Rivers between Upper Township and Egg Harbor Township. The bay is part of New Jersey's backbarrier lagoon system. [2] The bay exists as a drowned, or submerged, river valley.
In 1972, the dualization of the Great Egg Harbor Bridge eliminated the final two-lane segment of the parkway. [106] On September 18, 1969, a new exit 129 were opened, [107] the remaining ramps were opened to traffic by early 1970. This replaced the existing interchange, and made it so that the turnpike had direct connections to both directions ...
The Great Egg Harbor River is a 55.0-mile-long (88.5 km) river in South Jersey. [1] It is one of the major rivers that traverse the largely pristine Pinelands , draining 308 square miles (800 km 2 ) of wetlands into the Atlantic Ocean at Great Egg Harbor , from which it takes its name.
U.S. Route 40 (US 40) is a U.S. highway running from Silver Summit, Utah east to Atlantic City, New Jersey.The easternmost segment of the route runs 64.32 miles (103.51 km) through the southern part of New Jersey between the Delaware Memorial Bridge over the Delaware River in Pennsville Township, Salem County, where it continues into Delaware along with Interstate 295 (I-295), east to Atlantic ...
Barnegat Bay is a small brackish arm of the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 42 miles (68 km) long, along the coast of Ocean County, New Jersey in the United States. It is separated from the Atlantic by the long Island Beach State Park (colloquially called a " barrier island "), as well as by the north end of Long Beach Island , popular segments ...
Between 2006 and 2012, a new $400 million causeway was built to replace the 1933 causeway over the Great Egg Harbor Bay. The original causeway was in need of replacement due to deteriorating conditions of the bridges, increasing automobile and marine traffic on the Great Egg Harbor Bay, flooding from storms, and a high accident rate due to ...
Egg Harbor Township is a township in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 47,842, [9] [10] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 4,519 (+10.4%) from the 2010 census count of 43,323, [19] [20] which in turn reflected an increase of 12,597 (+41.0%) from the 30,726 counted in the 2000 census.