- City:
- Berkeley Heights, 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 Springfield Avenue over the railroad just outside Berkeley Heights, N.J. The project was undertaken as part of a larger grade crossing elimination initiative during that era. Living New Deal believes this structure is no longer extant.
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 April 27, 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. 73): 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.
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