Need an Exit to Foothill Road from I-287 South

As I have mentioned in my previous posts, on week days evening rush hour, traffic backs up from the Somerville Circle all the way to the Exit 17 on I-287 South. People spend one hour to cover the distance from the exit 17 to the Somerville Circle every day.

The NJDOT did a cheap work in 1993 when the built the Somerville Circle overpass. They should have had a left lane on the overpass for Route 206 South, which now goes through the Circle. Well, adding that left lane now seems next to impossible.

What the NJDOT can do now to tackle this problem is to build a new exit on I-287 South a couple of miles south at the Foothill Road in Bridgewater.

Route 206 & Harlingen Road intersection

When the traffic signal was installed at this intersection, it used to be traffic sensitive. It used to stay green for 206 and would turn red only when there was some vehicle on the Harlingen Road. Now, it is no longer traffic sensitive and turns red whether there are vehicles on the Harlinger road or not slowing the traffic on Route 206 further.