Official Site of The State of New Jersey

Project description:
The Tremley Point Connector Road provides access from the New Jersey Turnpike Interchange 12 through Carteret, NJ, over the Rahway River, and into Tremley Point in Linden, NJ.

Location:
Carteret in Middlesex County and Linden in Union County

Transportation modes:
Trucks, Passenger vehicles

The Tremley Point Connector Road's role in the Liberty Corridor provides direct access between the New Jersey Turnpike and Tremley Point, a strategic site of approximately 400 acres of brownfields in southeastern Union County near Port Newark and Port Elizabeth.

Related to economic development, the Tremley Point Connector Road:

• provides direct Turnpike access to Tremley Point in Union County and the Carteret International Trade and Logistics Center (I-Port 12) Development in Middlesex County two designated portfields' sites.
• facilitates development of more than six million square feet of industrial space and approximately 2,000 new jobs.

Innovative aspects of the Tremley Point Connector Road are that the project:

• supports the redevelopment of brownfields.
• encourages the potential development of Tremley Point as a multimodal freight village that also involves rail, barging and value-added warehouses and distribution centers.

Total project cost:
$92 million