US ROUTE 9

U.S. ROUTE 9

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hour group at the Wescoats Corner & Five Points ARBY'S , located

on the Delaware part of North to South US 9, but marked east and west,

near Lewes Delaware.

The route information on U.S. Route 9 at Wikipedia gives the

length of US 9 at 522.73 miles, the southern terminus being at Laurel

Delaware & US 13, the northern terminus at Champlain, New York, the

upper region of Lake Champlain on the Quebec Canadian boundary line.

The roadway continues on north as NY 971 B and ends in a cul-de-sac.

Much of US 9 is two lane, some exceptions, a northern New Jersey part is a six lane expressway, plus several sections in New York state.

The Delaware section of US 9 is two lanes running east to west

through Sussex county from Laurel , passing through Georgetown, on east to Lewes to the Cape May – Lewes Ferry which takes the highway across the Delaware Bay to New Jersey. It replaces Delaware

28 between Laurel to Georgetown and Delaware 18 between Georgetown and Lewes. Delaware US 9 also carries Delaware US 404 from Five

Points to Georgetown and on to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

New Jersey section of US 9 heads north at Cape May,

parallel Garden State Parkway, past Atlantic City, through the Pine

Barrens, Tom River, into Perth Amboy, crosses the Raritan River

at Edison Bridge , past Liberty International Airport, goes over the

Pulaski Skyway leaving New Jersey by the George Washington Bridge

into New York State on Broadway, over Broadway Bridge through the

Bronx , into Westchester where it follows the Old Albany Post Road

that dates from pioneer days, follows the Hudson River, becomes the

Croton Expressway, at Fishkill it turns into a 6 lane highway to

Poughkeepsie, through Hyde Park, back to a two lane highway at Red

Hook, a country road through Columbia county, Rensselaer county

passes over the Dunn Memorial Bridge at Albany, on to Saratoga Springs ,

into the Adirondack's. From here it follows the Lake Champlain to the

cul-de-sac just shy the Canadian border.

Abstract: 09/28/18 by Harrison H. from WIKIPEDIA, for Facebook.

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