Looking for New Jersey Routing Info

[Fire_Instructor]

Is anyone familiar with New Jersey Route 18, as a "shortcut" between I-287 and I-95? It looks like it would cut a few miles off my route, if it's worth taking. Overall, looking for a better way to get from Albany, NY area, to Dover, DE, without the Route 17 / Garden State Parkway mess......

[Helibassplyr]

That route has recently been redone. I haven't been up there in a year or two but you should have no problem driving a trailer through there. Depending on the time of day, you will be in heavy traffic.

[hbravo]

Traffic can be a bear on that road and there are lots of lights.

[RVermont]

While it cuts miles it doesn’t cut time on a consistent basis.

I just googled it as I am heading that way in two weeks. Right now 78 to 476 is 5 minutes shorter than the eastern route using 18.

I prefer the western route as the further from nyc the better. You never know when the traffic around nyc will go to heck.

Totally depends on the time of day.

[Jopopsy]

Agreed it can be a parking lot around Rutgers and New Brunswick.

[BJR]

Originally Posted by Fire_Instructor

Is anyone familiar with New Jersey Route 18, as a "shortcut" between I-287 and I-95? It looks like it would cut a few miles off my route, if it's worth taking. Overall, looking for a better way to get from Albany, NY area, to Dover, DE, without the Route 17 / Garden State Parkway mess......

You can figure out a way to use the PA Turnpike to get around it. The GS Parkway has a 10k lb vehicle limit and many low underpasses in the right lane. Pay careful attention. You are probably legal with a non-commercial vehicle with the weight limit but that doesn't mean a Trooper won't see it the other way.

Echo everyone else, 18 is kind of a mess but doesn't have any challenges for size or weight restrictions that I know of.