State Rte 27
Ok guys, let's talk.
New Jersey officially specs out State Rte 27 in Middlesex County (also known in many neighborhoods as Lincoln Hwy) as a non-limited-access primary arterial route, which would translate in Waze to the red major highway.
We seem to have some disagreement with this, and I get that, since Rte 27 isn't nearly as friendly to thru traffic as nearby Rte 1 or the Turnpike, but should we also maybe consider that the state designates this as a primary road to help ease congestion on Rte 1? When we look at the bigger picture of the state's roadways, it looks like there are 3 primary roadways (SR-27, US-1, and US-130) plus the Turnpike, that cover the very heavily traveled route between New Brunswick/cities north and Trenton/Philadelphia/cities south (SR-27 becomes US-206 south of Princeton)
So my question is do we downgrade State Rte 27 to a minor highway simple because it is not a divided highway a la US-1 or US-130 but it goes through a suburban neighborhood? Sure Rte 27 has a lot of traffic lights, but most of them are also optimally timed in a way to keep through traffic on Rte 27 moving.
When we change a road like this from state design, it seems to me like we would be downgrading just because of traffic concerns, and considering that Waze handles traffic in a completely different way, based on live input from devices on people's cars, when finding a route, I would think that it would be improper to mark a route as less than it's intended to be just because we wouldn't go that way because of traffic.
What does everyone else think?
PS We seem to have this same disagreement for the never-constructed section of State Rte 18 between New Brunswick and I-287. The state suggests that Hoes Ln and River Rd (CR-622) in Piscataway, and Easton Ave (CR-527) in New Brunswick and Somerset all be set up like primary arterial routes to co-handle traffic between New Brunswick and I-287 instead. While none of them are as fast as say, Rte 1, all of them do have their signals timed to optimize through traffic flow.
New Jersey officially specs out State Rte 27 in Middlesex County (also known in many neighborhoods as Lincoln Hwy) as a non-limited-access primary arterial route, which would translate in Waze to the red major highway.
We seem to have some disagreement with this, and I get that, since Rte 27 isn't nearly as friendly to thru traffic as nearby Rte 1 or the Turnpike, but should we also maybe consider that the state designates this as a primary road to help ease congestion on Rte 1? When we look at the bigger picture of the state's roadways, it looks like there are 3 primary roadways (SR-27, US-1, and US-130) plus the Turnpike, that cover the very heavily traveled route between New Brunswick/cities north and Trenton/Philadelphia/cities south (SR-27 becomes US-206 south of Princeton)
So my question is do we downgrade State Rte 27 to a minor highway simple because it is not a divided highway a la US-1 or US-130 but it goes through a suburban neighborhood? Sure Rte 27 has a lot of traffic lights, but most of them are also optimally timed in a way to keep through traffic on Rte 27 moving.
When we change a road like this from state design, it seems to me like we would be downgrading just because of traffic concerns, and considering that Waze handles traffic in a completely different way, based on live input from devices on people's cars, when finding a route, I would think that it would be improper to mark a route as less than it's intended to be just because we wouldn't go that way because of traffic.
What does everyone else think?
PS We seem to have this same disagreement for the never-constructed section of State Rte 18 between New Brunswick and I-287. The state suggests that Hoes Ln and River Rd (CR-622) in Piscataway, and Easton Ave (CR-527) in New Brunswick and Somerset all be set up like primary arterial routes to co-handle traffic between New Brunswick and I-287 instead. While none of them are as fast as say, Rte 1, all of them do have their signals timed to optimize through traffic flow.
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