Ramps from the New Jersey Turnpike (Interstate 95) combine ahead of parclo interchange with the Route 3 freeway leading south to U.S. 1/9. A button copy overhead at the off-ramp toward Union City was the last to reference the Route 495 freeway as I-495. The Interstate marker was replaced with a state route shield sometime after 2000. 03/15/00
Interstate 495 was originally signed from the New Jersey Turnpike through the Lincoln Tunnel into Manhattan, New York. It also was signed in New York City from the Queens Midtown Tunnel east to Interstate 278 (Brooklyn Queens Expressway). I-495 was initially dropped from a 2.1 mile segment between I-95 and Park Avenue in Weehawken in 1979. The remainder east into the Lincoln Tunnel was decommissioned when Interstate 478 was withdrawn from the West Side Expressway in Manhattan in 1985. Both sections of I-495 were downgraded to their respective state designations. Route 495 remains along a 3.78 mile long freeway linking the Lincoln Tunnel with the New Jersey Turnpike at Secaucus.
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Route 495 east at the Lincoln Tunnel.
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The Lincoln Tunnel opened with two lanes on December 22, 1937. The north and south tubes were completed in 1945 and 1957 respectively.
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06/12/21 by Peter Johnson
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Page Updated 07-13-2021.