Garden State Parkway

[n1chu]

I will be traveling from Ct. to Va. next week with my Uniden 996XT on board and wonder if there is a file, preferably an ARC XT PRO file that relates to the Garden State Parkway, with or without GPS coordinants. Or, in lieu of a file, a listing of the radio system(s) and talk groups that would apply. My route will take me down the Garden State to Interstate 95. Any help with I-95 would also be helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Bill
N1CHU

 

[GTR8000]

New Jersey State Police Trunking System, Statewide, New Jersey - Scanner Frequencies

You'll need the North, Central and South Simulcasts programmed.

The GSP and NJ Turnpike (I-95) talkgroups are in the Toll Road Patrol Operations group.

 

[w2xq]

The short answer is to dump in the NJSP TRS from New Jersey State Police Trunking System, Statewide, New Jersey - Scanner Frequencies. Look at a troop map at New Jersey State Police - Field Operations Section to weed out what obviously doesn't fit your needs. Many confuse I-95 and the NJTP. The NJTP with the I-95 label runs to New Brunswick (exit 9), then there a missing piece (never was built), and I-95 picks up again at US1 outside of Trenton. From there the road runs west into and south through Pennsylvania. I-295 runs N-S in NJ alongside NJTP Exit 7 south to Exit 1. HTH a bit.

Edit: This travel route has been discussed before. Maybe http://forums.radioreference.com/new-jersey-radio-discussion-forum/242948-nj-trip.html and http://forums.radioreference.com/delaware-radio-discussion-forum/241824-delaware-i95-route.html will help too.

 

[jvdet]

bears repeating the NJ Trunpike south of exit 9 is Not I-95,

 

[n1chu]

I-95

Interesting. But I'm confused about it. I have driven the route for many years now, attending an air show in Virginia Beach at Naval Air Station Oceana, coming from Connecticut. My route takes me over the Hudson River on the Tappanzee Bridge, down the Garden State Parkway, to the Jersey Turnpike, across the Delaware Memorial Bridge, down Rt. 13 to the Chesapeake bay bridge-tunnel. I never had a problem with the Jersey Turnpike and wonder why this is a concern? All my searches on route maps for finding this section that does not exist has me scratching my head. By the way, thanks for the input. I have the scanner programmed correctly now-it think.

Bill

 

[N2ICV]

The Gap of Interstate 95 in New Jersey/Pennsylvania

From Interstate-Guide: Interstate 95

Although for the most part complete, Interstate 95 has a significant gap between the cities of Trenton and New Brunswick in New Jersey. This gap will be closed by 2010 ("Now 2017") with a routing via the New Jersey Turnpike, but the delay is due to the construction of a connector interchange between Interstate 95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Bristol. (At that time, existing Interstate 95 north of the Pennsylvania Turnpike will be converted into an extension of Interstate 295.) http://www.paturnpikei95.com/home.htm
In the meantime, Interstate 95 changes into Interstate 295 at the U.S. 1 interchange just to the northeast of Trenton, complete with signage indicating the end of Interstate 95. ("TO 95") Until recently, signage for Interstate 95 did not resume until near East Brunswick on the New Jersey Turnpike. However, the Turnpike now sports signage for Interstate 95 from Exit 6 northward. Traffic may connect to Interstate 95 via Interstate 295 and Interstate 195, but it is a circuitous route. Reasons as to why the proposed section between Lawrenceville and New Brunswick/Edison was never completed involved community opposition to the roadway, and opposition from the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which feared lost revenue due to the competition of a free highway to the west. Ray Martin gives a descriptive account of the "Interstate 95 Gap" on his History of the Interstate 95 "Missing Link" of central New Jersey

The Roads & Bridges article (Interstate 2000 Roads & Bridges | Construction, Maintenance & Engineering of Transportation Infrastructure ) astutely notices that Interstate 95 between Trenton, New Jersey, and Newark, New Jersey, is incomplete. As a result, the plan is to route Interstate 95 on the New Jersey Turnpike between the Trenton area and the New York metropolitan area. To do this, a new interchange will be constructed between Interstate 95 and Interstate 276 (the Pennsylvania Turnpike). Len Pundt is a member of the Community Advisory Committee for the Interstate 95/Pennsylvania Turnpike connection project. He indicates that construction of this interchange will begin around 2002 and take about six years, depending on availability of funds to pay for the road. The connection will be a high-speed omnidirectional interchange, with the primary direction changes of northbound Interstate 95 to eastbound Pennsylvania Turnpike and westbound Pennsylvania Turnpike to southbound Interstate 95. The project includes a barrier toll plaza west of the interchange, at which point the ticket system will end. From there east, the toll system will be coin drop. This, of course, allows the interchange to be built without a toll plaza. (Len adds that federal law from 1986 [?] mandates a high-speed interchange.) When the interchange is completed, the existing Pennsylvania Turnpike (Interstate 276 Interstate-Guide: Interstate 276 Pennsylvania ) east of it, the New Jersey Turnpike spur, and the New Jersey Turnpike north of the spur will be re-designated Interstate 95. The existing Interstate 95 north of the interchange will be re-designated Interstate 295.

 

[w2xq]

Wirelessly posted (Moto Droid Bionic: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; DROID BIONIC Build/5.5.1_84_DBN-74) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1)

What he said. The "missing" piece has been discussed since Eisenhower. Princeton area values sunk the planned I-95 road to parallel US 1 between New Brunswick and Princeton Pike that crosses the loop around Trenton. I have some of the DOT mile markers and a link to the straight line diagrams on my web site below.

The road labeling can get confusing if a travel or map source isn't paying attention. Driving ME to FL on I 95 routes one to PA and thru Phila if one lives in literalville.

HTH.

Edit. There isn't anything wrong with your travel plans. Short of driving to Cape May and taking the ferry, there isn't any alternative. Cape May is a pleasant trip, but costs more in $ and time. My cynical nature tells me that NJ and PA will never complete the missing I-95 section as described by N2ICV above. Nice to plan, but I can't see the feds and state govts coming to terms especially in these fiscal cliff times. If it happens in my lifetime, by then I won't care.

 

[RadioDitch]

To answer what I believe was the original question...

New Jersey Turnpike/NJSP Troop D
----------------------------------------------------
27024 Turnpike North on North Simulcast (GW Bridge to Exit 12)
53264 Turnpike Central on Central Simulcast (Exit 12 to Exit 7A)
26992 Turnpike South on South Simulcast (Exit 7A to Exit 1/Del Memorial Bridge)

Garden State Parkway/NJSP Troop E
-------------------------------------------------------
26928 GSP North on North Simulcast (Exit 172 to N. End Driscoll Bridge)
53296 GSP Central on Central Simulcast (Driscoll Bridge to Exit 88)
26960 GSP South on South Simulcast (Exit 88 to End of Roadway)

Roadway maintenance operations for both are on a 220MHz LTR Passport system, which at this time cannot be tracked.
New Jersey Turnpike Authority Trunking System, Various, New Jersey - Scanner Frequencies

I can tell you from driving the route on a semi-regular basis that your order is gonna basically end up being like this...

CT State Police Trunked
NYSTA State Police Troop T - New York Division
NYPD Highway (aka Traffic)
PAPD ITD G.W. Bridge Patrols (Port Authority EDACS TRS on Simulcast - TG 00-102)
NJSP Turnpike (Troop D)
Del. River & Bay Auth (Del Memorial Bridge PD)
Del. State Police Trunked
MD State Police (Still a mix of lowband VHF, and various county trunked. Varies by County.)
VSP STARS Trunked (Still program in the VHF Freqs...they still use them now and then to avoid the bosses.)