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255:(NJDOT) on January 1, 1953. The 500-series county routes were established as a secondary highway system in case the state highway system was needed to be closed to all vehicles except military vehicles and emergency traffic if an air raid or major disaster happened. The secondary system was designed to carry through traffic and bypassed cities where possible. Some of the roads had spurs or alternate routes established; about one-third of these survive today even though such designations were eliminated from the primary state system in the
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