New Jersey Route 158
New Jersey State Route 158 (or Centre Street Bridge ) was a short state route between Newark, Essex County and Harrison (New Jersey) in Hudson County in New Jersey in the United States. The Centre Street bridge was first built in 1834. At that time the building was first a single-deck railway bridge over the Passaic River, some eight decades later, a second deck for the high-speed railway traffic was built in 1911.
The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad - now part of the Port Authority Trans -Hudson - 1937 moved on railroad tracks along the New Jersey State Route 21. The upper level of the bridge was therefore abandoned and later converted to a road. At the western end of the bridge in Newark led south past the Saybrook Place and ended on Park Place. In Harrison was the other end of the bridge along Second Street between Essex Street and Taft Place.
Finally, the road was shown on the upper bridge deck from the New Jersey State Highway Department as a New Jersey State Highway Route 25A -D, a branch line of the recently established State Route 25A, today's Interstate 280 and former New Jersey State Route 58 This designation remained unchanged until the renumbering of the New Jersey State Routes on 1 January 1953, when the route to the New jersey State Route 158 was. State Route 158 appeared on the map of New Jersey until 1960. Then the number of the road map disappeared. In 1995, the bridge was demolished.
History
Railway bridge
The lower deck of the bridge is a continuation of Centre Street in Newark and was originally for the New Jersey Railroad, which later became the Pennsylvania Railroad. On September 15, 1834, the bridge was the first time traveled by a train. A shortcut route which bypassed this bridge was taken into service in 1870, the old route became a branch line. On March 1, 1901 at 22:23 jumped clock local time, the last car of a passenger train, which consisted of the locomotive and five carriages and had just left the station at the Centre Street, off the rails. The derailed cars were still dragged about a hundred meters on the track bed. They were then disconnected, and the train continued its way to Jersey City continues. The reasons for jumping out of the cars from the tracks has not been determined.
In July 1901 applied for New York and New Jersey prior to the Congress of the United States to improve several bridges in these U.S. states. The project provided $ 45,000 (1901 ) in order to dredge the navigation channel of the Passaic River under the bridge and entertain. On April 2, 1911 in Newark began the construction of a new high-speed rail line along the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. The completion of the building was intended by the summer of 1911 to facilitate the journey in New York City working commuters. The same project also included the construction of subways in Newark. At that time, the bridge structure consisting of steel and the bridge deck was made of concrete. The project foresaw that the upper deck would be about six feet above the lower deck. In the middle of the bridge, offering nearly seventy meters long section should be located, which was provided as a drawbridge.
The new high-speed railway track and the reconstruction of the Centre Street Bridge was completed on 18 November 1911, when the last piece of track was laid. On November 25, 1911, the bridge was put back into operation. The upper deck now sailed in each direction 86 trains daily, the lower deck was used exclusively by freight trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
On 27 June 1937, the city of Newark struck together with Hudson and Essex County the conversion of the upper deck of the bridge in a street in front after the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (now the Port Authority Trans -Hudson ) should be laid on a railway line, the parallel to the 1927 reported New Jersey State Route 21 existed. Later this year, the conversion was completed and released the upper deck for use by road transport.
Road bridge
The Centre Street Bridge was later incorporated into the public highway system of New Jersey. The New Jersey State Highway Department put south near the bridge, the New Jersey State Highway Route 25A, which is part of New Jersey Route 58 and later Interstate 280 was later. In the law of the New Jersey State Assembly stated to State Highway Route 25A:
" ROUTE NO. 25A. Beginning at a point on the State Highway Route No.. 25 in Jersey City and extending through Jersey City, Kearny, Harrison, at or near the current Bridge Street Bridge between the Essex and Hudson County over the Passaic River and the State Highway Route No.. 21 and Clifton Avenue in Newark connecting. "
The New Jersey State Highway Department reported a few years later the upper deck of the bridge the name of New Jersey State Highway Route 25A -D, as a branch line to Route 25A, in contrast to this, however, Route 25A -D was not enshrined in the laws of the State. This assignment for the distance between the New Jersey Route 21 and Center Street in Newark and Second Street in Harrison remained unchanged until the renumbering of the New Jersey State Routes 1953.
In the renumbering of State Routes State Highway Route 25A was for New Jersey Route 58 and the road over the bridge was named New Jersey Route 158 Route 158 was shown on maps until 1960 when Highway, the entry then disappeared but from the cards. The Centre Street Bridge was canceled in 1995.