The Warren County Planning Department has initiated a study to be completed in June 2009 that will provide a comprehensive and coordinated transportation improvement strategy for the Route 22 corridor.

The need for Route 22 planning is urgent. Over the past decade explosive housing, commercial and retail development in southern Warren County and adjacent communities in Pennsylvania has increased travel demand along this corridor to the point where significant peak period weekday congestion already occurs along portions of the roadway. In addition, new residential, retail and commercial developments, including a Wal-Mart Supercenter, are planned or have been constructed along the Route 22 corridor. Developers also have proposed redeveloping portions of the Ingersoll Rand site in Phillipsburg. Route 22 serves as a major transportation corridor for Pennsylvania residents who commute into the Central New Jersey area and beyond to work.

The study will identify a series of roadway improvements as well as a package of transit enhancements, land-use and community design strategies, travel-demand and travel management strategies, and bicycle and pedestrian improvements. Taken into account will be local land use policies and plans and stakeholder input from agencies, local officials and the public.

Funded by the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA), the study will be conducted by Maser Consulting P.A. and the Warren County Planning Department.

Click here to learn more about the study, and to take the online survey.

Chairman, Anthony W. Wyhopen; Vice Chairman, David A. Smith; Secretary, Deborah A. Pasquarelli; Freeholder Director Everett A. Chamberlain; Freeholder Richard D. Gardner; Desiree Dunn; Robert I. Frey; William E. Hann, Jr.; David B. Hicks, County Engineer; Alternate 1, Louis J. Baduini; Attorney, Guy R. Wilson.

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