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This bridge first crosses over Harbor Road, which is the last street in Beesley's Point, connecting homes along Great Egg Harbor Bay and Peck Bay to U.S. Route 9. [2] [3] The bridge then crosses Great Egg Harbor Bay to Drag Island, which it crosses as a causeway. A small portion of the bridge enters Egg Harbor Township.
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.
The circle was removed in 2010 as part of the bridge reconstruction. In 2006, construction began on the replacement of the Route 52 causeway that was built in the 1930s over the Great Egg Harbor Bay, beginning with guardrail repairs that reduced traffic to two lanes. In 2008, the northbound lanes of the causeway were opened to traffic.
North of this exit, US 9 begins to run concurrently with the Garden State Parkway, and the two routes run east of the community of Beesleys Point before the median narrows, and they cross the Great Egg Harbor Bay on the Great Egg Harbor Bridge. [1] [3] [8] Garden State Parkway northbound at the Atlantic City Expressway in Egg Harbor Township
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.
Route 9 and the Garden State Parkway temporally concurred over the Beesley's Point Bridge from the Parkway's opening in 1954 until a separate bridge over the bay for the Parkway, the Great Egg Harbor Bridge, opened in 1955. [2] Through the decades, the Beesley's Point Bridge Company became unable to fund repairs on the aging bridge.
The last structure of the former B.L. England power plant is scheduled to be imploded Thursday at Beesley's Point. What can neighbors near the iconic smokestack anticipate?
US 40 & NJ 50 over Great Egg Harbor River part of the Mays Landing Historic District: 1928 1990-08-23 Mays Landing: Atlantic: Concrete multi-girder: US 40 & NJ 50 over Pleasantville Section RR part of the Mays Landing Historic District: 1929 1990-08-23 Mays Landing: Atlantic: Steel stringer: Warrington Stone Bridge: ca. 1860: 1977-12-16 Warrington