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flag New Jersey canceled its Route 50 Freeway plan in the 1970s due to high costs and low traffic forecasts, and it remains unbuilt today.

flag In the 1960s, New Jersey planned a Route 50 Freeway across Atlantic County to ease traffic, but by the 1970s, declining traffic forecasts and rising costs led to its cancellation. flag Similar freeway projects for Route 60 and Route 9 were also abandoned. flag Today, building the Route 50 Freeway would cost over $550 million and face major environmental challenges in the Pinelands, leaving the project unrealized and sparking ongoing debate over southern New Jersey’s transportation needs.

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