Route 495 westbound ramp closures tonight in Hudson County
31st Street Ramp closed and detoured Monday night
(Trenton) - New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) officials today announced the overnight closure of the 31st Street ramp from Kennedy Boulevard to Route 495 westbound and Routes 1&9 northbound as part of the Route 495 Bridge over Route 1&9 and Paterson Plank Road rehabilitation project in North Bergen.
Beginning at 11 p.m. tonight, Monday, May 21 until 5 a.m. tomorrow, and again the following night, NJDOT’s contractor, I.E.W. Construction Group Inc., is scheduled to close and detour the 31st Street ramp to Route 495 westbound and Route 1&9 northbound. This closure is necessary to install a construction barrier on the ramp. Single and double lane closures will be implemented over the course of the project to facilitate striping work and barrier installation
Motorists are advised to slow down through the work zone and will be directed to use the following signed detour.
- Motorists that normally take the 31st Street ramp to Route 495 westbound will be directed to continue north on Kennedy Boulevard to 32nd Street/Bergen Turnpike
- Continue on Bergen Turnpike and turn left onto Union Turnpike
- Motorists continuing to Route 1&9 northbound/Tonnelle Avenue should turn right on the ramp to Route 1&9 northbound
- At the overpass, Union Turnpike becomes Paterson Plank Road. From Paterson Plank Road motorists have the following options:
- Turn right onto Route 3 westbound after the Tonnelle Avenue overpass
- Continue straight on Paterson Plank Road, and turn right after the Route 3 overpass onto the Route 3 eastbound access road. Bear left at the fork for Route 495 westbound or stay right for the NJ Turnpike
The $90.3 million state-funded project to rehabilitate the nine-span viaduct includes repairs and the reconstruction of the bridge deck, replacement and strengthening of deteriorated structural steel, and the repair and painting of the substructure. Construction will be accomplished in stages by first making improvements to local streets in the surrounding areas that will need to handle some of the diverted traffic during bridge construction.
Community Outreach
NJDOT created a project-specific website – www.RestoreNJ495.com – which contains a wealth of information about the Route 495 Bridge rehabilitation, and will be updated with relevant new information as work progresses. The Department is carefully coordinating the Route 495 Bridge rehabilitation project with other regional transportation infrastructure projects to minimize traffic congestion.
The Department has a project hotline telephone number, 201.408.8495, and email, DOTOutreachRT495@dot.nj.gov. Anyone who has questions, concerns, or suggestions is encouraged to contact the Project Outreach Team as work progresses.
NJDOT will be using Variable Message Signs to provide advance notification to motorists of traffic pattern changes associated with the work. The precise timing of the work is subject to change due to weather or other factors.
Motorists are encouraged to check NJDOT’s traffic information website www.511nj.org for real-time travel information and for NJDOT news follow us on Twitter @NJDOT_info and our Facebook page.
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