The first work that leads to fixing the Route 17 bottleneck is starting on local Bergen County roads.
Traffic on Route 17 north squeezes from three to two lanes, a bottleneck that goes from Lodi to Paramus and is little changed from its 1930s lane configuration. A project to fix it is starting, first on local Bergen County streets.Driving Route 17 between Route 80 and Route 4 can be described in two words, nasty and frustrating. It’s a busy section between Maywood and Paramus that maddeningly narrows to two lanes in each direction.
The multi-year project is going to start on a local road that parallels Route 17 by preparing it to handle expected detouring traffic when construction starts. “We don’t want to put a Band-Aid on the bridges. A lot of tractor-trailers use this to go up to I-287,” he said. “We get all these 18-wheelers and heavy trucks going through this narrow section.”
That work will widen intersections and add turning lanes at four Rochelle Avenue intersections with Main and Essex streets in Lodi, Market Street in Saddle Brook and Central Avenue in Rochelle Park, Baladi said. The county studied and came up with concept plans funded with a $850,000Bergen County completed its Local Concept Development Study in 2015, which makes it eligible for federal funds for future work, said Melissa Hayes, an NJTPA spokeswoman.
“If there’s an accident, traffic diverts to the local roads, it’s become a problem,” he said. “Rochelle Avenue is the only one that parallels Route 17.”
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