County Route 524 (New Jersey)
highway in New Jersey
County Route 524 (CR 524) is a county highway in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The highway extends 39.90 miles (64.21 km) from the White Horse Circle (U.S. Route 206 [US 206] and CR 533) in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, to Route 71 in Spring Lake Heights, Monmouth County.
There are a few concrete bridge heads which showed that the section of CR 524 between the White Horse Circle and Allentown was in the 1930s part of Route 37.
Route description
CR 524 begins at the modified White Horse Circle in the community of White Horse in Hamilton, Mercer County, where the route intersects with US 206 and White Horse Avenue (CR 533). From the circle, the route heads east on two-lane undivided South Broad Street, which continues towards Trenton as part of US 206 west of the White Horse Circle. CR 524 passes homes before reaching an interchange with Interstate 195 (I-195), where the route is a four-lane divided highway maintained by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) with a wide median. After this, the road becomes undivided and county-maintained again, passing more suburban homes and becoming a divided highway briefly again at an intersection with Boulevard/Kim Valley Road in business areas. CR 524 narrows back into a two-lane undivided road turns southeast and crosses Conrail Shared Assets Operations' Robbinsville Industrial Track line near industrial establishments. The road passes more businesses as it reaches an intersection with Church Street (CR 609) and South Broad Street (CR 672) in the community of Yardville-Groveville. At this point, CR 672 continues on South Broad Street while CR 524 heads east on Yardville–Allentown Road, intersecting with Route 156 and US 130.
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