Worst Highway in NJ

[kb2vxa]

Oh good grief, you mean where Rte. 9 gets lost under the bridge and disappears into the swamps of Hoboken! Those scrap yards on Tonnele are in the right spot, just go out the front gate and pick up all the car parts you'll ever need. That's just one stretch of very bad road over abandoned mine pits (pot holes to you) and not a highway so we'll give it an honorable mention.

As long as we're in the Newark-Jerky City area let's all sing along with the Yardbirds;

Over under sideways down,
(Hey)
Backwards forwards square and round.
(Hey)
Over under sideways down,
(Hey)
Backwards forwards square and round.
When will it end, when will it end,
When will it end, when will it end?

(segue)

Pulaski Skyway falling down
Falling down
Falling down.
Pulaski Skyway falling down
My fair lady.

(segue)

The loveliness of Paris seems somehow rather gay
The glory that was Rome is of another day
I've been terribly alone and forgotten in Manhattan
I'm going home to my city by Newark Bay

I left my heart in Jersey City
High on a hill, it calls to me
To be with ratty beat up cars,
The landscape looks like Mars
The murky smog may fill the air,
I don't care

My love waits there in Jersey City
Above the Hudson River that smells like pee
When I come home to you, Jersey City
Your gangster mobs will beat on me

 

[WA1CRZ]

LOL! What ARE you smoking Warren?

 

[elk2370bruce]

Warren is overjoyed that the Summer tourists have left the Jersey shore and now the year-round residents can emerge and enjoy their communities again. Lots less noise, far less air pollution, and you can actually drive from one place to another. I can't blame him!

 

[kb2vxa]

"What ARE you smoking Warren?"

The old abandoned JC incinerator of course. Oh I'd better explain, after it was shut down Hudson County for a short time burned confiscated drugs in it (primarily weed of course) but they never bothered to turn the gas on. Once upon a time the wind shifted and a cloud of smoke enveloped the city, you can guess the rest. I'll give you all a clue, it gave new meaning to the term Hudson Tubes.

We get to enjoy our community oriented party activities this time of year without putting up with the terrorists or at least the summer hordes are a bit thinner. It would be better if not for the chilly fog rolling in off the ocean and no, it's not somebody burning a barge full of the good stuff. Hmmm, if they're having a party at USCG Station Manasquan they're keeping it on the QT... but I did see an 18' straight truck delivering pizza a while ago.

 

[elk2370bruce]

In some parts of the country, like the Florida Turnpike in the late 50's and early 60's, the powers that be used chain gang labor to cut down and burn the wakus weedus on the center medians. Lots of happy prisoners walking slowly in a circle down wind and inhaling deeply. Warren, youy gotta admit that those weed burning incinerators in beautiful JC were an improvement over the prevailing Secaucus breezes.

 

[gossamer]

It's gone now but 208 at the light in front of Nabisco.. I remember seeing a car that got crushed by of all things an orange crush truck. Now that irony.

 

[kb2vxa]

Oh now you're going back aways, to the Days of Pigs and Roses... and you.

The days of pigs and roses laugh and run away like a child at play
Through the meadowlands toward a closing door
A door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

The lonely night discloses just a passing breeze filled with stench
Of the porcine face that introduced me to
The days of pigs and roses, and you.

If you've been to the Dayton Hamvention you have relived the days of pig poo and massive piles of rotting garbage. Yes dear friend, mix pig poo with water, load it into a tanker and spray spray away your olfactory sense until your nose falls off. They call it organic farming, I call it a test of nerve. If you survive the trip and finally arrive choking and puking in Dayton you'll discover the Miami River. Now why is there no Dayton River in Miami? It must be the pigs, that's it, the pigs.

Tin tankers and pig poo coming,
We're finally on our own.
This summer I smell the spraying,
Four dead in Ohio.

Gotta get down to it
The stink is cutting us down
Should have been done long ago.
What if you knew Miss Piggy
And found her dead on the ground
How can you run from your nose?

 

[TonyS]

Route 22 around the Springfield/Union area is the worst highway I've travelled on in any state.

 

[WA1CRZ]

Route 22 around the Springfield/Union area is the worst highway I've travelled on in any state.

Yeah! That stretch between the Flagship and the Channel Lumber giant was the worst. Anyone know where to get pictures of the Channel giant?

Also, from the top of the Watchung tower with a good pair of binoculars, you could see accidents happen before your eyes! If you had a walkie talkie, you could listen to the Bullfrog from Newark and just MAYBE hear Warren telling everyone in north and central Jersey to take gas!

 

[kb2vxa]

By "Watchung tower" I presume you mean the water tower at the top of Summit Road quite on the opposite side of the reservation from Watchung. (;->) Before they cut the stairs off it was one of my "portable antenna towers", this one being 88' tall on a 400' hill with a Shakespeare Big Stick and a 5' section of pipe tied to the railing with clothesline rope and my car sitting at the bottom. Hey, you needed to know how to get there and a car with balls joint helps.

Take gas, take the pipe, BAH BAH BAH BAH BAH! Toma la pipa y a few things in Spanish I can't say here... PUNKY!

Q sohs,
Like the corners of my mind
Misty RF colored memories
Of the way we were
Scattered Q sohs,
On the band we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? Could we?
(HELL NO!)
Q sohs, may be beautiful and yet
Truckers too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it's the laughter
(chop busting)
We will remember
Whenever we remember...
The way we were...

 

[WA1CRZ]

. Hey, you needed to know how to get there and a car with balls joint helps.

Take gas, take the pipe, BAH BAH BAH BAH BAH!

Go up New Providence road, take a right at the top of the hill, just before the traffic circle take the right that goes off into the woods. Watch out for hikers!

 

[KC2TXD]

Route 9 or Route 18!

 

[comsec1]

any road

any road that enters NJ is a bad road, all the good ones are leaving NJ, go figure

 

[kb2vxa]

In the ancient world all roads led to Rome. In New Jersey all roads lead to Atlantic City.