Lake Avenue Overpass – Scotch Plains NJ

City:
Scotch Plains, NJ

Site Type:
Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities

New Deal Agencies:
Bureau of Public Roads (BPR), Public Works Funding

Started:
1936

Completed:
1937

Description

The Bureau of Public Roads provided funds to construct an overpass carrying Lake avenue over the railroad in Scotch Plains, N.J. The project was undertaken as part of a larger grade crossing elimination initiative during that era.

New Jersey Board of Public Utility Commissioners: “A “Works Program-State Highway Department” project on which the Board initiated proceedings and on October 2nd, 1935, issued an order to eliminate the grade crossing Construction started July 21, 1936, and the project was opened to traffic in January, 1937. Funds from the Bureau of Public Roads were allotted to meet the entire cost of construction.”

Source notes

New Jersey Board of Public Utility Commissioners, 1937 Report (pg. 72): https://dspace.njstatelib.org:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10929/33076/1937.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (accessed Mar. 2018)

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 26, 2018.

Location Info


Lake Ave.
Scotch Plains, NJ

Coordinates: 40.616422, -74.339413

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